My last entry was ages ago, I'm embaressed to say.  Since then things have changed a lot in our little homeschool, and I'm so happy to say it's going better than ever.  I don't even remember how it all started.  But some way or another I started nosing about a site called Ambleside Online.  It's a Charlotte Mason homeschooling curriculum site, which of course means high quality literature, art, music, and nature study among other things, if you know anything about Charlotte Mason.  What a fantastic lady!  I've been doing reading and research on her method of educating children and I am so impressed.  I knew shortly after visiting Ambleside and reading articles there that I had to try it.  What could it hurt, afterall?  I've been somewhat of a jumping bean for the last couple years, trying to find my niche and get in a groove with our day.  With Ambleside I have finally found it at last and I'm so very happy! 

So we did not study American history together this past year as I originally had planned to.  Oh sure, C.S. did reading on the American Revolution and Native Americans because he was interested in it.  But his main course of study has been the Middle Ages, which has fascinated us both.  While G.C. has been busy with Rome and Brittain and other famous stories that every child should have the pleasure of hearing.  But history was just the tip of the iceberg this year.  We've started our mornings with Bible time, enjoying a panoramic view of scripture throughout the Old and New Testaments.  Both boys have delighted in Shakespeare plays and have the most fun labeling blocks as all the many characters and 'acting' out the stories with the blocks.  C.S. has enjoyed Greek myths on his own as read-alouds, while G.C. loved the original Pinnochio and Winnie the Pooh.  We've had the pleasure of reading The Wind in the Willows and have recently started the original Peter Pan, which has my boys begging for more. 

We've had such a good time with all this great literature, as well as the other aspects of a CM style homeschool.  I'm so glad that I found Ambleside and that I took a chance with it.  It has changed my whole outlook on what learning and education really is, or can be.