The new, revised edition of The Well-Trained Mind will be coming my way after it comes out in May, thanks to my winning the grand prize in this contest. Thanks, Cameesa! (If you’re interested in the classical approach to education, here is a good place to start.) Please like & share:
Last week, I highlighted a wordless picture book for Read Aloud Thursday. This week’s books include an almost wordless picture book. Actually, that’s not true. Hug by Jez Alborough contains twenty-nine words, and twenty-five of them are the word hug. Three year old Louise loved this book. Bobo, the sweet little monkey in this story, … [Read more…]
I am a nerd. I admit it. Now I am definitely more of an English nerd than any other kind, but at one time in my life I was a well-rounded nerd. Ask anyone with whom I went to high school. (See–I still can’t end a sentence with a preposition!) I discovered the author Michael … [Read more…]
It’s Monday again (yippee!), and since my first showing for Memory Monday last week seemed to help jumpstart my stalled memorization effort, I thought I’d try to make this a regular bloggy feature here at Hope Is the Word. I’m determined to be finished with Colossians 3:1-17 this week because we began a new study … [Read more…]
Do you or your children like wordless picture books? I’ll admit that I don’t usually “get” them. Maybe it’s because I’ve been reading them with an adult (well, mostly) mind instead of a child-like mind. One of our books this week was a wordless picture book, and it really delighted my girls, especially Lulu (age … [Read more…]
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