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December 27, 2006

Worth remembering

“The harder you work, the luckier you are.”

Gerald Rudolph Ford, 1913-2006

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Facio liberos ex liberis libris libraque. [I make free men of children by means of books and balances (laboratory experiments)].

Good judgment comes from experience. Experience comes from bad judgment. Walter Wriston

"I'd like to give you a piece of my mind." "Oh, I couldn't take the last piece." Ginger Rogers to Frances Mercer in "Vivacious Lady" (1938)

If you can't say anything good about someone, sit right here by me. Alice Roosevelt Longworth

"If we bring a little joy into your humdrum lives, we feel all our hard work ain't been in vain for nothin'." Jean Hagen as "Lina Lamont" in "Singin' in the Rain" (1952)

From the Archives

Something different (a list of poetry books and other poetic resources)
How I got my kids to like poetry and broccoli
Poetry sings
Adding even more poetry to your life, just in time for National Poetry Month
Tossing textbooks
Getting back to Gombrich (a review of A Little History of the World by Ernst Gombrich)
Children's history book reviews
Beefing Up SOTW3: Adding more Canadian history
Their Island Story (on the importance of history as story, and the new edition of Our Island Story by H.E. Marshall)
(To twaddle or not to twaddle: choosing books based on) Financial considerations and literary merit
Art history and appreciation books we like
...So you're thinking about home schooling
Celebrating International Literacy Day (Quotes)
Celebrating International Literacy Day (Lists & Links)
Ambleside Online's Helping Hand Emergency Learning Plan
You can't say that in Latin!

Lagniappe

Library Elf
Chris Barton's American history picture book reading lists for kids, Prehistory-the Present
Museum of Online Museums
The Country Fair for homeschoolers
Sur La Lune Fairy Tale Pages/An online portal to the realm of fairy tale and folklore studies
The Edge of the Forest/online children's literature monthly
Charles Darwin Has a Posse: awareness stickers, bookmarks, and more
SimplyCharlotteMason.com
The Vinyl Cafe
Jim Weiss's storytelling CDs
The BBC's history pages
Mike Ford's Canadian history songs
Handy Latin phrases
Chapters-Indigo Books
Free weekly sampler from Dover Books
Nigella Lawson's recipes and more
Bardolatry: Shakespeare on Film
Loganberry Books' Stump the Bookseller

Handy Book and Homeschool Catalogues, and Book Lists

Library Elf
Northwest Passages (online Canadian literature bookseller)
Canadian literature links, from Northwest Passage bookseller
Classical Home Education
Pandia Press
Chinaberry Books
Tanglewood Education
Beautiful Feet Books
Sonlight Curriculum
Tree of Life Book Service
Academic Distribution Services, British Columbia, Canada
Rainbow Resource
Sonlight Books in WTM order

Our Curricula/For the Parents

"Family Matters" by David Guterson
"Dumbing Us Down" by John Taylor Gatto
"Endangered Minds" by Jane M. Healy
"Left Back" by Diane Ravitch
"Dumbing Down Our Kids" by Charles J. Sykes
"Knowing and Teaching Elementary Mathematics" by Liping Ma
"The Elements of Style" by Strunk & White
"The Hinges of History" series by Thomas Cahill ("How the Irish Saved Civilization"; "The Gifts of the Jews"; "Desire of the Everlasting Hills"; and "Sailing the Wine-Dark Sea: Why the Greeks Matter")

Our Curricula/For the Kids

"The Complete Home Learning Sourcebook" by Rebecca Rupp
Growing with Grammar
Avko Sequential Spelling
"A Little History of the World" by E.H. Gombrich
"A History of US" by Joy Hakim
"The Story of Art" by E.H. Gombrich
"Story of the World" (SOTW) series by Susan Wise Bauer
Write with the Best
Donna Ward's Canadian History & Geography work/activity books
Singapore Math
Living Learning Books/Chemistry

What We're Reading, Watching, Listening To & Playing With

Library Elf
"Wally the Wordworm"

Blogs to Enjoy/Education, at home and otherwise

Alexander's Maitresse
Atypical Homeschool
Atypical Life
Bent Pedagogy
By Sun and Candlelight (home of Dawn's Field Days)
A Circle of Quiet
Classical Home
Confessions of a Pioneer Woman
The Crib Chick
Daddy on Board
Dare to Know
Doc's Sunrise Rants
A Gypsy Caravan
Here in the Bonny Glen
HMS Indefatigable
Home Education & Other Stuff
Home Works
The Homeschool Cafe
Homeschool Math Blog
Joanne Jacobs
Karen Edmisten
Kitchen Table Learners
lightingthefires
The Lilting House
Mother Crone's Homeschool
Mt. Pleasant Classical Academy
My Bountiful Life...
Naturally Simple Homeschooling
Notes from the Country
One-Sixteenth
Out of Lascaux
Poppins Classical Academy
The Radical Homeschool Blog
Ramblings, Rants & Remedies
Real Learning
Redneck Mother
Road SCHOLA
Romans Go Home!
SCHOLA
Semicolon
Shakin' Down the Sugar... A Sweeten Education
A Small Corner of Nowhere
Studeo
Three Plus Two
Tricotomania
Twice Bloomed Wisteria

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Boston 1775
Ceely's Modern Usage
open history...
The Stingy Scholar
Tall, Dark, and Mysterious

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Anneographies
AustenBlog, for Janeites
Bartography
Big A little a
Book Moot
Book World
BookLust
Box of Books

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