Learning is Living

As we begin our official new school year we start new routines and rediscover old ones.  For our family, living is learning and learning is living. But it's important to mark the changes- this year we have a Fourth Grader, a Second Grader and a 2 year old! We are excited to continue our Story of the World history study spending time in colonial America this year, we are beginning Latin, pressing on in French, studying US geography, enjoying Friday poetry teatime, reading Plutarch out loud, moving on in Math u See, learning violin, cello, piano, recorder and meeting with our medieval band. We've really enjoyed Shakespeare and have started  A Winter's Tale. Friday nature walks are beginning with a wetland study and field trip to a swamp! We are studying Isaiah's prophecies fulfilled in Jesus, polishing cursive and to my surprise enjoying diagraming sentences. Stay tuned for our read a loud lists! We just finished Little Britches!  Perhaps the hardest lesson we are learning just now is the truth that we live in a fallen world demonstrated daily around us.  We've been asking big questions like: why do bad things happen and praying much together as a family. Here's to a year of exploring, wondering, working and delighting in all of these things. 

 

Of Wild Ponies, Wild Skies and Wild Plants

We escaped our normal routines for a few days to go spend time with the wild ponies in Assateague Island. We saw many wild lavender skies, flew our kite in the wild wind and rested to the sound of the sea. When we came home we discovered our garden had gone wild and spent about a week harvesting vegetables, canning peaches, and making salves from our herb garden. Rest is important for the soul. Vacation with a toddler is more like a relocation, but the change can reset hearts filled with worry because you have to bend like a plant in the wind and learn to be flexible.