Author Archives: Kay Pelham

Scenes from 2023-24 classes

Below are pictures from my two Story, Rhyme, & Song classes, as well as my Growing in the Literary Tradition classes. Last year the GLT class got “the fairy tale class”, which is a primer for reading metaphorically, and in … Continue reading

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A Child’s Relations with his World

For the past few months I have weekly produced a graphic, with a lot of help from my husband and son, to post each Monday, which include a quote from Charlotte Mason. This weekend as I was preparing the graphic … Continue reading

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Carrying Aunt Karen Out

She helped bring him into the world. I thought it appropriate that he should help carry her out. It is true. I wish I had pictures of my childless sister Karen as she stayed in the delivery room with me, … Continue reading

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Love Day and Ash Wednesday

Ash Wednesday coming on the 14th of February this year has brought to my mind the connection between the Gospel — humanity’s fall and separation from her Father and her Groom, and then the rescue and reconciliation by that Groom … Continue reading

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What you and your children are missing out on by not reading pagan myths

There are disagreements in the Christian education and parenting world, especially in the homeschool world of which I’ve been a part for two decades, about the exposure to stories of pagan gods and demi-gods and heroes of the various non-Christian … Continue reading

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To Be Enchanted By Story

I’ve had the wonderful experience these past 10 weeks of reading story to four-year-olds, taking things a little deeper with my 6-9 year old group, with telling back what we saw and what it reminded us of, and then with … Continue reading

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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

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Recent Stuff (Fall classes, Fellowship Retreat and maybe more)

I’ve been working some on this website since my last blog post in May, so I thought I should make another post here since all my work doesn’t show up there in the sidebar. I’ve added Course Descriptions for my … Continue reading

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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

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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

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