"'Education is the Science of Relations'; that is, that a child has natural relations with a vast number of things and thoughts: so we train him upon physical exercises, nature lore, handicrafts, science and art, and upon many living books, for we know that our business is not to teach him all about anything, but to help him to make valid as many as may be of––
'Those first-born affinities,
That fit our new existence to existing things.'"

Charlotte Mason, A Philosophy of Education
with a quote from The Prelude by William Wordsworth

Monday, June 8, 2009

Hands On Homeschool Blog Carnival #9

Welcome again to another inspiring issue of the Hands On Homeschool Blog Carnival! The carnival will be coming out monthly for the summer to reflect our more relaxed pace of things.

This time around I thought I would present the submissions by writer rather than by subject to highlight all the neat blogs out there. I hope you all love these as much as I did!

Cheryl (our carnival organizer) of Talking to Myself
Brenda of The Tie That Binds Us
Jimmie of One Child Homeschool Policy
Jimmie's new web site Jimmie's Collage*Kris* (that's me) of Science of Relations (sometimes God puts the hands on lesson right outside your window...)
*Kris* (also me) of At Home Science
Sarah of SmallWorld
Mother Hen of Meanwhile, back at the ranch...
Momma Snail of The Snail's Trail
The Family of Once Upon a Family
Misty of Homeschool Bytes
Teresa of higher education
Jenafer of Cage Free Monkeys
Enjoy the carnival as much as I did, and thank you so much to all the contributors! The next Hands On Homeschool blog carnival will be July 13th at Our Journey Westward

Tuesday, June 2, 2009

Bird now flown

Our three baby robins have left the nest, but here are a few videos we captured before they were gone.