The best way to learn about the past is to live in it, and we can do that with well-written books. For Canadian history we have always focused on reading novels, stories, and even poems and have used textbooks mainly as outlines and guides. This literature-based approach to Canadian history leads to great learning and […]
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Books, This Year and the Next
There is so much wisdom and beauty to be found in books, if you select them carefully! I love reading. I’m grateful that I can read very quickly and that I have learned to extract what is important from each book. It’s a joy, too, to share these things with you in my reviews. (Note: […]
Weekly Wrap Up: Rain, Rabies, and Learning
Here you need to imagine a picture of the beautiful orange-edged yellow roses my husband got me yesterday. Unfortunately, I could not get the picture onto the computer. In our lives this week… This week was almost the opposite of last week. Because of rain and cold weather, we did hardly any gardening or swimming. The girls […]
Weekly Wrap Up: Weeding, Learning, and Driving
In our lives this week… I feel as though we have been very busy. Once again I’ve discovered that being busy at home (the title of my friend Jenn’s blog) is much more peaceful than being out and about. That is something to keep in mind when planning our school year. So what did we […]
Weekly Wrap Up: Reading Week and Augustine College
In our life this week… We read, and looked for ways to organize our 200+ library books so they’re not just piled on the coffee table and scattered all over the floor. Now they’re in neat piles on the floor. We froze our kale crop and the sauerkraut we made, and now our four freezers […]