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<\/a>\nOn Wednesday, Micah got a full eye exam and ordered unexpected glasses, and I got most of an eye exam and ordered my much-needed new glasses. I also got the broken glasses temporarily fixed because the older pair\u00a0was\u00a0giving me nasty headaches. The only way to fix the old pair until the new ones were ready was to replace the left temple with a temple from an abandoned pair of Hello Kitty glasses. It’s a good thing I’m comfortable\u00a0being nerdy.<\/p>\n
As for our Morning Meetings this week,\u00a0\u00a0I planned to\u00a0return to Ambleside Online as\u00a0a morning time resource, and I did. They select\u00a0an artist<\/a>, a composer<\/a>, a poet<\/a>, a nature study focus<\/a>, a Shakespeare<\/a> play, and a Plutarch<\/a> life for each term, and they choose a hymn<\/a> and folk song<\/a> for each month. I discovered that the artist and composer for they chose for this term are people that\u00a0we have recently\u00a0covered, so I went forward to their selections for 2028-2029 and selected Rachmaninoff and Degas. (If I am still looking at beauty every morning in 2028, it will be just for my own enjoyment, because the boys will be 21, 22, and 26 that year.) We also read from Year 4’s poets, Dickinson and Tennyson, last year, so I picked up Sara Teasdale, Hilda Conkling and James Whitcomb Riley for the next few poets because AO recommends them, but we haven’t read them yet. \u00a0We started learning Charles Wesley’s hymn “Jesus, Friend of Sinners.<\/a>” I picked a folk song from 2011, “The Lion Sleeps Tonight,” \u00a0and it was a total bust. It annoys Micah, so Gideon sings\u00a0it over and over again, and that stressed Josiah and I out. So, I’ll pick a new one next\u00a0week, and we will try again.<\/p>\n Josiah and Gideon both enjoyed the Year 4 readings<\/a> that they did this week, and we will continue to work on those assignments. I bought the audiobooks for the history books from Audible or Canon Press, and we listened to one chapter from each book in the history loop over breakfast on the three mornings that we were home. We had some interesting conversations about the stories from each book: (aff. links) This Country of Ours<\/em><\/a>, Trial and Triumph <\/em>(audio from Canon Press<\/a>), and A Child\u2019s History of the World<\/em><\/a>. Since we listen over breakfast, Micah didn’t lose time from his school day. He was sitting with us anyway to eat, and he can participate in the discussion afterwards.<\/p>\n Have you tried getting a subject done during a meal?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Margin\u00a0did not allow me to get the links we used this week posted.\u00a0I’ll get that done this weekend and maybe get ahead on writing posts.\u00a0It was a good week, but a rather full one. I did teach my first local Latin Clinic. We talked about nouns and their declensions.\u00a0The rest of the week was interrupted … Continue reading “Reflections on our Winter Term Week 1”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3,9],"tags":[27],"class_list":["post-355","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-home-education","category-school-journal","tag-reflections"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p774DL-5J","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.educatingoaks.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.educatingoaks.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.educatingoaks.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.educatingoaks.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.educatingoaks.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=355"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.educatingoaks.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":369,"href":"http:\/\/www.educatingoaks.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355\/revisions\/369"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.educatingoaks.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.educatingoaks.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.educatingoaks.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/a>Today, we went back with my mother because I needed to have my eyes dilated, and I wasn’t allowed to drive home afterwards. We also picked up\u00a0all of the glasses, hung out with Gramma, and\u00a0ate Pei Wei. I didn’t expect that project to take quite so much time or cost quite so much money.<\/p>\n