The Garner Girls love to read! My love for reading is a gift from my mother, who always made sure there was plenty to read when I was growing up. Trips to the library were frequent and a joy. My … Continue reading Beyond Bedtime: Seven Thoughts About Reading Aloud
My Life This Week – Finishing up Sonlight Core F – Eastern Hemisphere, planning for Core G – World History Year 1: Ancients to Medieval. Getting ready for Eagle Court of Honor Ceremony! We are keeping an eye on our fennel plant – we have two more crysalides! Doing lots of laundry as we get Number 1 Son ready to go to George Mason. In Our Homeschool This Week: We school year round – albeit unintentionally. The first summer after we decided to homeschool, we worked on Math (repeating third grade math) and began the wonderful Zoology series … Continue reading Last Week of Sonlight Core F Eastern Hemisphere Explorer
I’m ridiculously behind in my posts…we’ve moved along in our exploration of the Eastern Hemisphere from China to Mongolia to Russia to Central Asia (think former Russian satellites that end in _____stan) to our current study of Southeast Asia. At … Continue reading Afternoon at the Chinese Pagoda…
To study Japan is to realize that her people have no saving knowledge of Christ. In this island nation, the people’s great respect for the awesome power and reverence for the stunning glory of God’s creation is sadly channeled into a sort of nature and … Continue reading Seeing God in a Japanese Garden
Grace and I loved our study of Japan! We both learned a lot from our Netflix documentaries, our study of Commodore Perry, our wonderful living books including Katherine Patterson’s Master Puppeteer, Pearl Buck’s The Great Wave, Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes, by … Continue reading Tea, Haiku and Bunraku…
Yep! It’s an art form! In the island nation of Japan, fishing is both a primary industry and a pastime. According to the writers of the Heart and Hands Ancient Far East Kit teacher’s guide, Japanese fishing competitions eventually ceased requiring competitors to show “the big … Continue reading So we painted a dead fish…
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