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AMBLESIDEONLINE GRADUATE

Beginning with Theology, that queen of sciences.

• Church @Grace Bible Chapel
• Amblesideonline was my roadmap with countless books for highways, byways, alleyways and nooks to a great world of God, man and nature.
  
• PragerU - Short videos with big ideas..
  
• Through the Bible with Dr. J. Vernon McGee
  
• Thomas Sowell - Conservative Legend
  
• Theology and Real Science Radio
  
• Missionary Spencer Smith - Third Adam
  
• Fighting for the Faith - Monthly Prophecy Bingo
  
• Kent Hovind Creation Seminars
• Jordan Peterson
  
• The Daily Wire with Ben Shapiro and Co.
  
• The Epoch Times
  
• Mike Winger - Theology
  
• The wretch, the song talks about.
  
• The Berean Call with Dave Hunt
  
• The Imaginative Conservative Essays
  
• Unlocking the Bible Series etc.
  
• Generations Radio with Kevin Swanson
  
• Chuck Missler
• Bravehearted Christianity with Eric Ludy
  
• Voddie Baucham
  
• Charlie Kirk
  
• Institute of Creation Research
  
• Bill Whittle - Conservative Opinion
  
• Tucker Carlson - A Brave Man
• Answers in Genesis
  
• Tracing your ancestors through the table of nations
  
• Final Countdown to the Second Coming
  
• The Daily Briefing with Albert Mohler
  
• Walter E Williams - Suffer No Fools
  

Favorite Composers

• Jacques Offenbach
• Antonio Vivaldi
• Johann Sebastian Bach
• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Favorite Artists

• Norman Rockwell
• Jacques-Louis David
• Pierre-Auguste Renoir

Favorite Poets

• Rudyard Kipling
• Robert Frost
• Alfred Lord Tennyson
• John Keats

Favorite Shakespeare Play

• Julius Caesar
• The Merchant of Venice

Favorite Folk Songs

• The Battle of Otterburn
• A Man's a Man, Robert Burns
• Johnny has Gone for a Soldier
• Over the Hills and Far Away, British traditional folk tune
• This Land is your Land
• There is a Time
• Leatherwing Bat
• Minstrel Boy
• In Flanders Fields
• Green Fields of France
• Skye Boat Song
• American National Anthem
• The Minnesota Song
• With my Swag on all my Shoulder

Favorite Books

• Ivanhoe by Sir Walter Scott
• Westward Ho! By Charles Kingsley
• Little House Series by Laura Ingalls Wilder
• The Gammage Cup by Carol Kendall
• Voyage of the Armada by David Howarth
• The Brendan Voyage by Tim Severin
• Familiar Quotations by John Bartlett
• Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
• Johnny Tremain by Esther Forbes
• The Wheel on the School by Meindert DeJong
• Anne of Green Gables by Lucy M. Montgomery
• Circle of the Seasons by Edwin Way Teale
• The Pushcart War by Jean Merrill
• Utopia by Sir Thomas More
• Abigail Adams by Natalie S. Bober
• A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court by Mark Twain

Some Things I Have Memorized

• Romans 12, Psalm 1, 1st Corinthians 13, Psalm 16.
• Little Orphant Annie, James Whitcomb Riley

Book of Common Place

• And first she called up all the doctors who give little children so much physic - they were most of them old ones, for the young ones have learned better - all but a few army surgeons, who still fancy that a baby's inside is much like a Scotch grenadier's. Chapter 5; Water Babies, by Charles Kingsley.
• The story of the game has been traced right back to a pamphlet of 1624, well within living memory of the event; but Drake's alleged remark is a later addition: 'Plenty of time to finish the game and beat the Spaniards after......' One can only say it was just the sort of thing he would have said, if people were getting over-excited. After all, he was expecting the armada..... Whatever anyone else might do, he was not the man to let them imagine he was surprised.... Besides, it was not just a gesture of gallant nonchalance. There really was plenty of time. Chapter 9; The Voyage of the Armada, by David Howarth.
• Our name is Equality 7-2521.... We are twenty one years old. We are six feet tall, and this is a burden, for there are not many men who are six feet tall. Ever have the Teachers and the Leaders pointed to us and frowned and said: "There is evil in your bones, Equality 7-2521, for your body has grown beyond the bodies of your brothers." Chapter 1; Anthem, by Ayn Rand.
• "But have you ever noticed one encouraging thing about me, Marilla? I never make the same mistake twice." Anne of Green Gables, by Lucy M. Montgomery.
• "Sia!" Said Cary: "But if he be admitted, it must be done according to the solemn forms and ceremonies in such cases provided. Take him into the next room, Amyas, and prepare him for his initiation." "What's that?" Asked Amyas, puzzled by the word. But judging from the corner of Will's eye that initiation was Latin for a practical joke, he led forth his victim behind the arras again, and waited five minutes while the room was being darkened, till Frank's voice called to him to bring in the neophyte. Chapter 8, How the Noble Brotherhood of the Rose was Founded. Westward Ho! By Charles Kingsley.
• Ferdinand Columbus recorded how he and his brother Diego, pages to the Queen, were mortified by these wretches hooting at them and shouting, "There go the sons of the Admiral of the Mosquitos, of him who discovered lands of vanity and delusion, the ruin and the grave of Castilian gentlemen!" Chapter 17; Christopher Columbus, Mariner, by Samuel Eliot Morison. 

Joshua 2017-2018 Ambleside

Currently Reading. 2016-2017

Hands and Nails By Abigail S. M (age 12)

                                         Part 1: What Hands Can Do

1: Spank

2: Grab

3: Grasp

4: Hold things

5: Push someone into the water by accident (but say sorry afterwards, of course)

6: Sew

7: Embroider a napkin in the Elizabethan times

8: Knit

9: Crochet

10: Make cakes

11: Cut nails

12: Swim

13: Support yourself as in doing a handstand like Gabby Douglas

14: Write something like a novel (I’m going to be a novelist when I grow up)

15: Mop

16: Sweep

17: Stir pots of ugali (yellow cornmeal with water)

18: Lift weights

19: Hold a toddler’s hand when walking with them

20: Shake hands

21: Do loads of dishes

22: Do loads of laundry

23: Throw toy spiders (especially big ones) at younger siblings for fun (If they don’t like it say sorry and don’t do it again)

24: Make TEA (I do this all the time)

25: Use spoons, forks, and knives

26: Scrub

27: Erase bad-looking letters, especially if you’re a perfectionist

28: Drive

29: Scratch heads covered with dandruff

30: Open new BOOKS! (I love books)

31: Wash hair

32: Put on clothes

33: Tie watches onto your wrist

34: Squeeze

35: Hit

36: Pat

37: Rub something raw

38: Caress

39: Put band-aids on screaming youngsters

40: Cut with scissors

41: Color pictures (especially if you’re an artist)

42: Hang around lazily

43: Do absolutely nothing

44: Turn PAGES!

45: Play pianos

46: Draw bows across violins

47: Strum guitars, banjos, etc.

48: Press

49: Knead dough

50: Wave good-bye to someone as the train pulls away (whether you’re on the train or not)

51: DO NOT DO!!! Pick your nose, etc.

52: Paint like Raphael, Van Gogh, etc.

53: Touch

54: Feel

55: Scrape junk off the bottoms of pans, pots, etc.

56: Twist a toy crocodile’s neck

57: Pinch

58: Drop a glass gallon of milk

59: Poke

60: Slap a beetle with a fly-swatter

61: DO NOT DO!!! Suck your finger (like our baby brother Benjamin)

           I can’t think of anything else just now. If I’ve forgotten something….

                                       

 Part 2: What Nails Can Do

1: Look pretty when painted with nail-polish

2: Protect skin under the nails

3: Provide a place where dead cells can go

4: A hand-powered utensil for scratching

5: Grow too long

                                           I guess that’s about it!

      

School

 Our Island Story

 Copywork

2011 Begins...

Going forward into 2011, home-schoolers marching right along. I think the banner under which we will march this year is...."if you don't write it down, it probably wont happen". We probably dissipated a little too much on field trips last year and were therefore scrambling to get caught up, whatever that means. Home-school provides an amazing amount of liberty but also comes a sometimes daunting amount of responsibility. As a homeschooling parent, one of the options we do not have is failure. The stakes are too high and sometimes too many people looming all over the place waiting for you to stumble and best of all, no remedial classes. One pretty much makes the rules and changes the rules just as often as one goes. There is no particular road-map or bureaucracy to define what you do and when and so we innovate as we go. I like to say we are the moms who live on the cutting edge of the cutting edge. With our eclectic curriculum choices, field trips galore, public libraries, plac cards, Interlibrary loan connoisseurs, you-tube, Google, Wikipedia, YMCA, homeschooling co-ops, whoa! We juggle and give multitasking a whole other life.

Then also etching into stone things like weekly hiking and the YMCA for swimming and nap time and a clear cut focus on the children's passions as we discover them along the way. I think as a parents, we have a real opportunity to direct our children to follow their passion and hence be truly happy. You are happy if you do what you love and it amazes me how easy it is to see what my children are passionate about before money comes into the equation. That is, before they follow a career simply because that's where the money is, they are so transparent as to what they are naturally good at and what they truly love to do. So far I have a librarian, a nature enthusiast/farmer, a mathematician, a singer, a poet, a naturalist, a photographer, an author, a pianist and an up and coming violinist, a bird expert, and most importantly lovers of God.

Ecclesiastes 2:24...a man can do nothing better than to eat and drink and find satisfaction in his work. This too I see is from the hand of God...

I am a believer in the idea that learning happens during the quantity of time and not particularly in the quality of time as we perceive it. Both kinds of time are equally important. If you hang around your children long enough, they are an open book and so-

Psalm 127:3

³ Children are a heritage from the LORD,

offspring a reward from him.
⁴ Like arrows in the hands of a warrior
are children born in one’s youth.
⁵ Blessed is the man
whose quiver is full of them.
They will not be put to shame
when they contend with their opponents in court.

If you have an arrow you shoot it straight directed to a target. You don't just shoot it and hope it lands somewhere and holds on to something, whatever it is.

Also,

Proverbs 22:6

⁶Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.

The training up a child bit has been proven beyond the shadow of a shadow in my own life, a testament of my mother's training, and so far I like what I see in my own children.

And so on this note we embark on 2011 Jesus, to have you lifted up in our homeschooling experience and adventure and to go further in all things based not on our limitations, but on the amazing possibilities in your word ready to become realities through faith.

Changing Education Paradigms

This book describes so well why I choose to do what I do. Great read that I highly recommend.

Transplanted Strawberries

Brocolli, Cauliflower and Cabbage

More Transplanted Strawberries

Leeks

Bok Choy

Collards

Swiss Chard

Brocolli

Green Onions

Spinach

Beets

Strawberries. We are trying to move them or thin them or do something to them to increase the yield for this year.

Last year's mustard greens.

Last year's bok choy

Carrots

Garlic

Potatoes alrady planted on both sides of the wooden boxes.

Spring Means Gardening...

Believe it or not, peas, onions, beets and some spinach are already planted in those magnificent boxes. We think the kids will be less likely to step inside the box and kill the plants.

Nature Study

Taking on the "Handbook of Nature Study" by Anna Botsford Comstock. I've had the book for over a year and somehow forgot that I had it. The book is practically twice the size of my bible and I spent a good part of the afternoon reading parts of it and I like what I see so here we go... First published in 1911 by an educator who believed that children belong outside meddling with and finding out about nature that is closest to home before thinking about the inhabitants of the Australian deserts.

The outdoors don't take away time: they replenish it. Nature as God made it is a vast sort of vastness that no one can conquer, yet it cures us in this fast paced life and draws us to the one who made it all.

Picassos Extraordinaire