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Recent Posts
- To Be Enchanted By Story November 11, 2023
- Kay’s Story, Rhyme, & Song Interview. 15 October 2023 October 16, 2023
- Art for Art’s Sake August 6, 2023
- Recent Stuff (Fall classes, Fellowship Retreat and maybe more) August 2, 2023
- Recent changes to my blog (subtitle: please click on Welcome) May 25, 2023
- Plans for fall 2023 classes May 25, 2023
- Because Look May 7, 2023
- He Went to My School! April 29, 2023
- Lose Yourself, Find Yourself April 21, 2023
- It really is all about the Caring April 17, 2023
- And Grace Will Lead Us Home February 25, 2023
- Remembrance and Liturgy ….and (Surprise!) Refinement February 5, 2023
- Goodreads Review: How the Irish Saved Civilization January 21, 2023
- 2023 Word of the Year: FRIEND January 1, 2023
- Review of “Evening in the Palace of Reason: Bach Meets Frederick the Great in The Age of Enlightenment” December 27, 2022
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Author Archives: Kay Pelham
Art for Art’s Sake
I was just about to write about “For the Love of the Art or the Love of the Utility?” (stay tuned for that), when I see the following Facebook post from my husband with an accompanying video. I’m going to … Continue reading
Posted in Character
Tagged art for art's sake, caring, character, honesty, humanities, truth, truth for beauty's sake
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Recent changes to my blog (subtitle: please click on Welcome)
In the past month I have been redesigning and restructuring my blog to facilitate my new ventures since my retirement as a homeschool mom. It’s still a work in progress, particularly with my course descriptions. In case you came here … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
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Plans for fall 2023 classes
I am currently working on course descriptions, scheduling days and times, and lesson planning for my Story, Rhyme & Song classes that will be held at my studio in Laurel. The information about the classes will be found under the … Continue reading
Posted in Teaching
Tagged elementary music, elementary story time, folk songs, nursery rhymes, preschool music, preschool story time
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He Went to My School!
I want to tell you a homeschool success story about a perfectly normal student who was born ready to learn, and turned into an amazing young man—under the tutelage of an imperfect and inexperienced homeschool teacher. (That’s me.) When my … Continue reading
Posted in Character, Home School, My Personal History, Parenting, Teaching
Tagged character, Charlotte Mason, children are born persons, education is a science of relations, education is an atmosphere, James, wisdom
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It really is all about the Caring
Recently, while doing a crossword puzzle, of all things, I thought again about the big picture of why we studied geography in our homeschool, and how that really applies to all the studies. Here’s what I shared with one of … Continue reading
Posted in Character, Home School, My Personal History, Parenting, Teaching
Tagged caring, character, Charlotte Mason, educational goals, educational philosophy, life to the full, wonder
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And Grace Will Lead Us Home
On Thursday I watched the funeral for my friend Lynn Bruce, and today I watched her graveside service. On this day 17 years ago, also a Saturday, we had the graveside service and burial of our daughter Virginia Grace, who … Continue reading
Posted in My Personal History
Tagged grace, grief, life is a mist, mourning, shadow of things to come, Virginia Grace
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