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Dewey's Treehouse

We are a Canadian homesquirreling family. Dad, known as Mr. Fixit, has lined the nest with old copies of Popular Mechanics. Mama Squirrel enjoys reading, scrounging, and raising the squirrelings: The Apprentice, Ponytails, and Dollygirl (formerly called Crayons). And there's Uncle Dewey, who is made of polyester and imagination and has lived in our treehouse for years. Climb up, you're welcome!

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Thursday, October 08, 2009

You all are so amazing

So many good posts out there in the Blogworld:

A homeschool day at Holy Experience

A fall update from Beck's Bounty, and one from Tootle.

This week's CM Carnival

Math Teachers at Play Carnival #16

Frugal Upstate shares her standby cookbooks, and Brenda wants to know which books (or movies) make you warm and cozy.

Lizzie counts blessings and makes some true confessions.

And Kim at The Upward Call passes on a sad newspaper item about the death of nursery rhymes in our culture.
Posted by Mama Squirrel at 11:47 am
Labels: Ann Voskamp, Blogworld, Carnivals, Charlotte Mason, cookbooks, Holy Experience, Homeschooling, Math

1 comment:

Beck's Bounty said...

Thank you !!

Tammy

6:29 am

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  • Mama Squirrel
  • The Apprentice

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"We shall not cease from exploration
And the end of our exploring
Will be to arrive where we started
And know the place for the first time."
~~T.S. Eliot, "Little Gidding"

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"I suppose one must make one's peace with cacophony."--Dr. Fugue (the piano teacher) on Arthur

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"Taffeta phrases, silken terms precise, / Three-piled hyperboles, spruce affectation, / Figures pedantical; these summer flies / Have blown me full of maggot ostentation: / I do forswear them." ~~Shakespeare, Love's Labour's Lost


Our Homeschool Curriculum


Mama Squirrel's Reading List 2013 (R means rereading, § means done)

  • The King Arthur Trilogy, By Rosemary Sutcliff §
  • The Herb of Grace, by Elizabeth Goudge §
  • The Divine Comedy: III. Paradise, translated by Sayers and Reynolds
  • Over My Dead Body, by Rex Stout §
  • Champagne for One, by Rex Stout §
  • The Solitaire Mystery, by Jostein Gaarder §
  • Through a Glass Darkly, by Jostein Gaarder §
  • The Fields of Noon, by Sheila Burnford
  • No Little People, by Francis Schaeffer
  • Christ and Culture, by H. Richard Niebuhr
  • "An Essay on comedy and the uses of the comic spirit," by George Meredith (free online)
  • MFA in a Box: A Why to Write Book, by John Rember
  • Shop Class as Soulcraft, by Matthew B. Crawford
  • How to Read a Poem (and fall in love with poetry), by Edward Hirsch
  • When I Whistle, by Shusako Endo §
  • The Wormling #1: The Book of the King, by Jerry B. Jenkins and Chris Fabry §
  • "Training of the Imagination," by James Rhoades (free online) §
  • Towards a Philosophy of Education, by Charlotte Mason (R) §
  • School Education, by Charlotte Mason (R) §
  • Dorothy L. Sayers: Her Life and Soul, by Barbara Reynolds §
  • Dorothy L. Sayers: A Careless Rage for Life, by David Coomes §
  • The Art of Fiction, by John Gardner (R) §
  • Euthyphro, by Plato §
  • Life of Dr. Donne, by Izaak Walton §
  • Greybeards at Play, by G.K. Chesterton §
  • The Trees of Pride, by G.K. Chesterton §
  • St. Peter's Fair, by Ellis Peters §
  • Black is the Colour of My True Love's Heart, by Ellis Peters §
  • The Skeleton in the Clock, by Carter Dickson §
  • The Chinese Nail Murders, by Robert van Gulik §
  • The Chinese Lake Murders, by Robert van Gulik §
  • Till Death Do Us Purl, by Anne Canadeo §
  • Heaven Preserve Us: A Home Crafting Mystery, by Cricket McRae §

On the Treehouse fridge

"To try to teach literature by starting with the applied use of words, or 'effective communication', as it's often called, then gradually work into literature through the more documentary forms of prose fiction and finally into poetry, seems to me a futile procedure. If literature is to be properly taught, we have to start at its centre, which is poetry, then work outwards to literary prose, then outwards from there to the applied languages of business and professions and ordinary life."--Northrop Frye, The Educated Imagination
"Lying in bed would be an altogether perfect and supreme experience if only one had a coloured pencil long enough to draw on the ceiling."--G.K. Chesterton

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  • PlanetJune (crocheting)
  • Penny Ann Poundwise (Food and other frugal stuff)
  • Redfly Creations: crafts, homemaking and more
  • The Prudent Homemaker
  • Budget101.com: Liss Burnell's (mostly food) site
  • Book Sleuth on AbeBooks
  • Stump The Bookseller
  • The Why Homeschool blog - owners of the Carnival of Homeschooling

Carnivals We've Hosted

  • Charlotte Mason Blog Carnival: Perspectives Edition
  • Festival of Frugality #386: Promises, Promises
  • Festival of Frugality #371: True Confessions Edition
  • Carnival of Homeschooling #364: The Good, The Bad, The Ugly
  • Festival of Frugality #355: What, We Worry? Edition
  • Carnival of Homeschooling #334: Floatin' Down the River
  • Festival of Frugality #330: Before You Take Out a Lion
  • Charlotte Mason Blog Carnival: It's About Time
  • Festival of Frugality #309: Don't Be a Cash Potato
  • Carnival of Homeschooling #304: Rollerskating in a Buffalo Herd
  • Carnival of Homeschooling #280: Ten and Counting
  • Carnival of Homeschooling #253: Singing a Happy Song
  • Carnival of Homeschooling #226: Wrinkly Superhero
  • Charlotte Mason Blog Carnival: Stuff CMers Like
  • Carnival of Homeschooling #194: Creatures and Critters
  • Carnival of Homeschooling #162: Identity Crisis Edition
  • Carnival of Homeschooling #130: Homesick Campers' Edition
  • Carnival of Homeschooling #101: Snowed-In Edition
  • Charlotte Mason Blog Carnival #4
  • Carnival of Homeschooling #85: School Stuff Edition
  • Carnival of Homeschooling #70: The Yes No Yes Edition
  • Carnival of Homeschooling #55: Parents' Meeting Edition

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