We found a beautiful butterfly just lying on the ground for observation~
We enjoyed muffins and poetry for breakfast one morning~
Scott hung old maps in our sunroom for geography study~
Sometimes we like to illustrate a Bible story we have read and write a summary~
Written summaries of books is one of go to writing activities too~
We love taking morning walks right after breakfast and on the way out we discovered a bird nest in our Crepe Myrtle~
On the way home, we checked the blueberry bushes and picked a bunch~
Then we sat out in our backyard and sketched something we saw on our walk~
Evie found this cicada on the ground, placed it carefully on the tree, and ran in to get her sketching things~
"How do we prepare a child, again, to use the aesthetic sense with which he appears to come provided? His education should furnish him with whole galleries of mental pictures, pictures by great artists old and new... in fact, every child should leave school with at least a couple hundred pictures by great masters hanging permanently in the halls of his imagination, to say nothing of great buildings, sculpture, beauty of form and colour in things he sees. Perhaps we might secure at least a hundred lovely landscapes too, - sunsets, cloudscapes, starlight nights. At any rate he should go forth well furnished because imagination has the property of magical expansion, the more it holds the more it will hold." (Charlotte Mason~ Vol. 6 p. 43)
THUS... all nature we take in, sketch, and make part of our souls. :)
