Monthly Archives: June 2015

A Shopping Cart of Gratitude

By Headmistress | Published: June 30, 2015

I took the Cherub grocery shopping today and changed our lives.  I went with the Striderling and his sisters and mama.  While the HG unbuckled the baby and Striderling,  I took the Princess Peach and the Cherub by the hand and went into the grocery store to get one of those carts with the double […]

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Charlotte Mason Grammar and Composition, Grades 7-9

By Headmistress | Published: June 30, 2015

  There’s a lot to process (isn’t there always?), but I think the most useful information I gleaned from reading the programmes for this level is this: ‘making progress each term.’ Start where you are, and move forward. Progress may be slow, but what matters is that there is progress, improvement. I looked over the […]

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Grammar Exercise, 1912

By Headmistress | Published: June 29, 2015

(click to enlarge) From Everyday English, Book 1 By Franklin Thomas Baker, Ashley Horace Thorndike, 1912

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Kindle Deals

By Headmistress | Published: June 27, 2015

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Gilbert & Sullivan’s ‘Patience’

By Headmistress | Published: June 26, 2015

Below is one of the songs from Patience performed by Anthony Warlow REGINALD BUNTHORNE (A Fleshly Poet) is the older gentleman. ARCHIBALD GROSVENOR (An Idyllic Poet), the younger. Archibald is a manifestly beautiful young man- burdened by his looks which cause every woman who meets him to fall madly in love with him. Earlier in […]

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