I’ve mentioned my Book of Centuries before. We now have two copies of Laurie Bestvater’s BoC, my son’s is the basic black, and mine is bonded leather. I’m pleased with the quality of both. This page was inspired by the chapter on Ptolemy in Ball’s Great Astronomers, used in the upper years of Ambleside Online.… Continue reading 31 Days: The Book of Centuries
A Quick Apology: The Learning by Hand link-up is going to have to wait until Saturday, when I can pawn these wild apes off on ask my husband to watch the kids. Seriously, I have been at low-power due to a head cold and they know it. They have literally been bouncing off the walls… Continue reading Adventures with Salt Crystals
One of the big three of Laurie Bestvater’s “The Living Page” is the Commonplace Book. (The other two are the Book of Centuries and the Nature Journal, in case you are wondering.) What is a Commonplace Book? It is, simply, a collection of favorite quotes from reading. Occasionally the keeper adds their own thoughts or… Continue reading Our Commonplace Books
After reading Brandy’s series on Keeping at Afterthoughts and Jeanne’s post containing examples of Charlotte’s students’ Books of Centuries, I’ve decided to make more entries in mine. So here are a few entries from The Birth of Britain: King Alfred, Edward I, and a sketch of a Viking long-ship that was modelled from the one… Continue reading Keeping my Book of Centuries
I’ll spare everyone the day one details. In short, it went better than expected. We need to do math year round, because even just having a month off I had dual melt-downs of the “I can’ts”. We moved through that, and managed to get most things done except for Latin for my eldest, because we… Continue reading Day One: The Science Journal
