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Exploring Countries and Cultures MFW

MFW ECC: Getting Ready!

MFW ECC: Intro Week 1

MFW ECC: Intro Week 2

MFW ECC: United States Part 1

MFW ECC: United States Part 2

MFW ECC: Mexico

MFW ECC: Canada

MFW ECC Brazil

MFW ECC: Norway 

MFW ECC: France

MFW ECC: Germany

MFW ECC: Kenya

MFW ECC: Middle East

MFW ECC: India

MFW ECC: China

MFW ECC: Japan

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🌿🌿GIVEAWAY CLOSED🌿🌿 congratulations @christian_constantino and @sorrells_clan 🙌🏼🙌🏼 Some of you have asked if we are breaking up with Instagram since we haven’t posted in a month. 😂🙈 We aren’t breaking up, we’re just living life and soaking up our time as a family of six. We started school again back in June and we’ve been cheerfully indoors while the rest of Florida swelters. I love watching children quietly (or sometimes noisily) unfold and stretch as the year goes on. This seems like a pivotal growing year for my kids, so much of the mundane training of the early years is suddenly springing to fruition which is a blessing (and relief) to witness. Conversations are fathoms deeper too! They are eager to make more connections and ask difficult questions in just about everything we do. They are lingering at the table longer. Today our morning fairy tale led to a thirty minute discussion on personal initiative and this reminded me of a wonderful new book that I wanted to share with you all! The dear folks over at @circeinstitute have released another excellent resource, “Tales of Wonder.” This book contains 8 essential fairy tales and discussion guides for multiple ages. Yes! This book meets me where I am at!! 🙌🏼🙌🏼 today we are giving away copies to TWO winners. To Enter: Follow @circeinstitute and tag as many friends on this post as you’d like. Every tag is an entry! giveaway closes Friday at noon! Not sponsored by IG 🌿🌿 Happy Tuesday friends!
It’s funny how much has changed this fourth time around. I’m no longer standing sentinel over each and every black line, watching and waiting for the chance to swat crayons back where they belong. All the cut outs bare strange jagged edges and the paintings are lumpy and drippy and sticky. I am no longer in the business of squeezing everything into a theme. The lid is off the box because we all breathe better that way. Today I looked over at my happy smiling boy. He was zealously snipping away with his scissors, meandering around a dotted line, his pink little tongue sticking out from his paint stained lips. “Mama, I LOVE kindergarten!” he beamed and his little chest puffed out with pride. “I love learning more and more and more.” Yes. This is what I want to hear from the very beginning. From the start of it all and well beyond the exit door. With every splatter and drop of bright orange paint, he’s falling further in love with this simple, extraordinary experience of worshipping God with his mind. This is where the beauty is at! What if we didn’t see kindergarten as the space where kids bolted pell mell at the sound of the starting gun on an endless journey of rubrics and measurements and assembly line learning? What if kindergarten was just about wooing? The beginning of a life long romance? Gentle, soft and sweet. A chance for children to quietly fall in love with their Creator, His world and their place in it.
Mornings can be rough for our youngest. We delayed morning time by half an hour today so he could have a bit of alone time with his books and his alphabet tracing board, which are both so soothing for him. One of my favorite things about homeschooling is the chance to really know myself and my children and establish our relationships well. Not only how we work best, but how we love best. When we finished morning time the boys ran off to play for a quarter hour before beginning school. They emptied the dishwasher while making breakfast so clean up was a snap and while they played, I had 15 minutes to read and copy scripture in my journal. When the new hour rang we all went to the classroom to work on math, Latin and reading for the youngest. I know later today the older ones will hit their tough stretch of time and I’ll need to extend the same grace they gave me this morning. Today is a good reminder that Morning Time is about to much more than breakfast and books. If you want to dig a little deeper into this process there is a new post about Morning Time up on my blog! It’s part of a new series full of tips for morning time. This first post is all about working as a family to establish morning time. I’m not a morning person and I know there is little chance I’d ever do it consistently every day all by myself. Having the kids all pitch in makes morning time feasible for us and it’s helping me grow in character! I’m so thankful for this chance to be the lead learner in my home. ❤️
The simple act of gathering around this table every morning to break bread and feed our hearts has impacted their childhood (and my motherhood) more than I can say. A cup of tea, a hymn, a creed, scripture, a book, a piece of art, a piece of music, a few lines of verse, a play, a fairy tale, an idea- these things have laid the foundation for our conversations and interactions for the rest of the day. Even on hard days, this is a balm on our hearts. The simplicity of it all is sweet and profound. This activity isn’t worthy because of how much we are learning, it’s worthy because of the relationships we are establishing as we learn together- with each other, with the topics, with God, with our level of caring for others. We began our 7th year of morning time this month. How good it was to see them come running into the room, craving their favorite breakfast and their favorite stories, even better to watch them clear the table and walk away a little taller, a little stronger of heart, and more than a little aware of how much caring can change the world.
🌿🌿G I V E A W A Y now CLOSED! 🌿🌿 congratulations @hannahjanenorth 🙌🏼❤️ Our favorite small business/homeschool family of wood-working world changers, @treasuresfromjennifer, has added so much beauty and simplicity to our lessons. Yesterday my older boys worked on their geometry tablets while no.3 used his multiplication board. The littlest used his alphabet tracing board, number board and shape board. We’ve used these items for years and the way they are holding up tells me that my grandchildren will be using these one day. It’s a joy to support Jennifer and her family in their creative work and it’s a joy to have their dreams brought to life on my shelf at home. 🌿Friends, I’m so excited for this giveaway- a $150 gift certificate for @treasuresfromjennifer!!! 🌿🙌🏼 To Enter: 1) Follow @treasuresfromjennifer 2)Tag as many friends as you like. Each tag is an entry. 🌿Giveaway closes Friday at high noon EST. This isn’t sponsored by IG, just two homeschool mamas that love you guys. Happy Wednesday!!
My first attempts at nature journaling were just plain awful. My lofty aim of emulating “Country Diary of an Edwardian Lady” ended up landing somewhere nearer to “Dismal Scrawls of a Disenchanted Cuban.” I eventually sat down and contemplated why I wanted to nature journal. At the time (2011) it was this: 1) Bc Charlotte Mason said so 🙈2) Art and nature are good. 3) Proof for questioning relatives that we are homeschooling, not just hanging out in pajamas. That was pretty much my list. 🙈🙈. I sat looking at this list while my preschool aged children decimated the living room. A thought penetrated through the sleep deprivation in my brain and I said aloud “It’s a vehicle!” to which the eldest replied “VROOM!” I realized nature journaling was my vehicle, the means by which I could implement habits and love for nature. This was a worthy, beautiful thing that required diligence and patience, observation and attention, wonder and gratitude. I wanted these things for myself and for my children. The first thing I ever built in my effort to redeem the ruins of my education was a garden. Nature journaling became a practical tool for habit training and a mysterious enchantment that raised us all to wonder. I knew I couldn’t just dump art supplies on my kids heads and expect them to churn out excellent habits of attention. I needed to start with myself. I began nature journaling first. I began nature study first. I modeled it first. They saw me value it so they began to value it. Then I taught them. I struggled for a long time to journal consistently. I’ve come a really long way. I’m glad my technique has improved, but I am happier yet that by God’s grace He has allowed me to gain diligence and a love for nature along the way. I’m seeing it in my kids now too. One tool that has helped significantly is @kristinrogers monthly nature tutorials in @wildandfree.co bundles. (See today’s stories) I can't recommend this resource highly enough. Dear friend, if you’re contemplating worthy things for your children next year, I encourage you to seize it for yourself first! Desire a beautiful education for yourself. Work at it daily, watch the days roll by, and behold the beauty 🌿

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