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Teaching the Trivium
The Trivium. That’s what we’ve intended to teach our children, just didn’t have a name for it. I’ve always ignored references to “The Well Trained Mind”. The little I heard, I didn’t like it. It seemed to me those who followed it were instilling formal schooling in very young children. Not what we believed in.…
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Upgrade in progress
Remember that upgrade I talked about here? It’s in progress. Really. What am I talking about? Ah, it’s a woman thing. Some women today need extra progesterone. Yes. It’s fine to talk about. Natural progesterone cream is available in the United States without a prescription. Dr’s poo-poo it here. Well, what else is new? Many…
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Who owns the cat?
Well, we have a cat that visits us. He started visiting us in January 2001. He’s a beautiful Brown Tabby. He showed up at our deck door, and sat there pretty much all of the time, taking some time off, of course, just looking inside. Two weeks LATER I started to feed him. He’s usually…
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LIGHT!
My birthday presents arrived yesterday courtesy of FED EX Ground. Thanks to my sister for the gift certificate on buy.com, I have three new stylus for my Palm Vx, and a Rhino Skin (case) to protect said Palm Vx. Now I have a Palm that matches my Nokia, both pretty much the same silvery color…
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Oh, the Christmas Wreath?
Yeah, it’s still hanging there, above the fireplace. I did move the couch today though! That’s how I do the best cleaning, or the only cleaning in some rooms. Move the furniture. It’s what I’ve done since I was about 8 years old. No, not just move it out of the way, clean, and then…
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Sunflowers
I harvested three sunflower heads this afternoon. One is tiny, but bursting with seeds! I didn’t want the birds to start plucking the seeds out … so off the stalks they came. They were yellow behind, so ready to dry out. One of them has been attacked already, several zigzaggy rows missing seeds. It must…
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Christmas in July
It’s mid-July, about time to take down the wreath above the fireplace. 😉 It’s looking rather dingy now, not as green as it did in June. Yes, it’s from December. We put a fresh wreath up and leave it until we are tired of it. Well, I am not tired of it, but I can…
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Getting older … officially today
Today is my birthday, and I am officialy more than halfway through my 30’s. I’m 36 now. 🙂
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Covenant Children
What is SO annoying to me is how one side of the Reformed circle of Christians is saying how the “other side” disregards it’s children as second-class, not “full” in the covenant, or calls them Baptist Presbyterians. This is so NOT the case. Just because we don’t give our small children admittance to the Lords…
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Straw Men, twisting doctrine …
We are listening to the Auburn Ave Pastors Conference from this past January. It’s frustrating. Schlissel in particular. Wilson too. We’ve really enjoyed their writings in the past. But things they are a-changin’ How they characterize certain Presbyterian ideas … is just dead wrong. Straw men are being erected. Things are so twisted.
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One response to “Teaching the Trivium”
Update:
I’ve noticed a few people have visited this post. I wrote this post a year ago just a couple of weeks over that actually.
Our eldest, whom I mentioned above, has been 7 since the end of April. He’s been reading since … well, he all the sudden began reading and enjoying it sometime in the past year.
We still are sticking with the Trivium Pursuit model of learning [It’s a broad model, but there are consistencies that all within it stick with].
I’m more like Charlotte Mason in my approach, that said without having read any pointedly CM stuff. From what I understand about it though, it’s what I seek out. Not that I’m great at it. So one of these days I’ll get a CM Companion or something. It is totally in fitting with TP, it’s one approach within the model of the Trivium.
We have a 4 yr old DD who will be 5 in November. She is slowly learning her phonics with TATRAS instruction www.verticalphonics.com . She loves to draw and write letters. Our eldest loves to draw as well. It’s very interesting to let your child have paper and pen or crayons, and let their imagination take over. We get very thoughtfully made pictures, with wonderful details. It comes out naturally, without pushing or ‘teaching’. No, it’s not “art” as in high art. It’s young children’s art.
So our children are well on their way to loving learning, it’s great to see it happening!