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A Modern Day Essene
Come inside and join me for some of my reflections on life, home schooling, healthy living and family times.
About...
I am a happily married wife and mother to nine children, two of whom are now married themselves! This is our eleventh year of home schooling. Our style is varied! We use whatever suits us at the time. Currently I am following a more delight directed approach with less emphasis on bookwork and more on life skills.
I love reading, Jogging, going to the gym, painting and drinking red wine with ice cubes!
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October 20, 2009 at 5:18 AM
Oh yeah! I have that addiction too. Should we seek treatment do you think?!!
October 20, 2009 at 1:38 PM
I have developed a love for books over the last 5 years as I have been studying the Charlotte Mason Education and I now have such an appreciation and understanding of what a living book is. Thank you for sharing! xxx
October 20, 2009 at 3:02 PM
Totally! I could come to your house any day to sip a chai latte and admire your bookshelves!! :) For that matter you could come to mine and do the same!! Sweet bliss. :)
x
October 20, 2009 at 3:54 PM
A woman after my own heart, we have overflowed 3 bookshelves and are now filling up a 4th, plus there's another bookshelf full of puzzles and board games, people comment that I have my own library and my husband often jokes that he could have a book sale and make a fortune, except that I would kill him!!!!
I am very tempted by that heart of dakota stuff. I had a look at their website and love the idea of looking at history and the Bible together as the history of the world. Do you just use what they supply cause my main concern was no Australian content????
I'm thinking now would be a good time if I was going to buy anything American cause our dollar is worth close to theirs at the moment, so it wouldn't be as expensive as it could be if the dollar drops.
October 20, 2009 at 10:12 PM
Hi Jenna :) we are thinking more and more about heart of Dakota and using it next year. Thank you for the pictures of some of the books you are using.
I was wondering about the cost and if it is large and if you think it's worth it?
Luv Donna
October 22, 2009 at 5:36 PM
O.K, Heart Of Dakota seems to be tailored to American History in two of the early books (Hearts For His Glory and Bigger Hearts For His GLory) Preparing Hearts For His GLory is world history so the American content is not huge. I have thought long and hard about this and in the early days thought negatively about using it because of the American History content. I now think that it is a good thing to do but I will still include Australian History by using living books as a read aloud alongside the curriculum. Sonlight is the same, I think year 3 and 4 is predominantly American History.
As for the price. The complete Preparing Hearts For His Glory cost me (with postage) $480. That is a lot of money and something that I didn't rush in to quickly! I was already using Little Hands To Heaven before looking at purchasing another level. By that stage I was convinced it would work. My way oflooking at it was that I have three younger children that will use the same curriculum in the next few years. The Aussie Dollar is brilliant at the moment and that also swayed me as a few months ago the price would have been almost double!
Hope that answers your questions.
October 25, 2009 at 3:25 AM
Thanks for the info Jenna , that helps a lot! Luv Donna