Sweetness and Light: Montessori Home Schooling Sweetness Style

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Here's where you'll find a little bit of everything from this home educating Catholic wife and mother of 4 special little sweeties! We love our life of learning and living our faith everyday and hope you'll also find a bit of Sweetness & Light while you're here, thanks for visiting!

Our Sweeties

Violet, age 13
Matthias, age 10
Seamus, age 7
Sean-Paul, age 4

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Blogging Elsewhere

Mama's Muse ::
Random Learning Notes

Threads of Love ::
Snippets of the Joy of Handicrafting with My Daughter

Sweetness in the Kitchen ::
My Menu Planning and Recipe Sharing Space (sadly neglected)

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Lunchtime Reading

Arthur Ransome: Swallows and Amazons (Godine Storyteller)

4 x 10 Reading 2009

Noel Perrin: A Reader's Delight
Read February 09
E. M. Forster: A Room With a View
audio version in progress June '09
Maud Hart Lovelace: Betsy and the Great World (Betsy-Tacy)
Read April '09
Meg Meeker: Boys Should Be Boys: 7 Secrets to Raising Healthy Sons
Read May 09
Nadia May Elizabeth Von Arnim: Enchanted April
Finished Feb '09
Wendelin Van Draanen: Flipped
Reviewed at Deliciously Clean Reads blog.
Anna Botsford Comstock: Handbook of Nature Study
(reading through the year)
Hillaire Belloc: History Of England Vol 2
in progress June '09
Mortimer J. Adler: How to Read a Book (A Touchstone book)
E. M. Forster: Howards End (Dover Thrift Editions)
Eva Ibbotson: Journey to the River Sea
Edward Eager: Knight's Castle
Read january 09
Barbara Bell: Minimus Pupil's Book: Starting out in Latin
Read Jan-Feb 09
Kit Bakke: Miss Alcott's E-mail: Yours for Reforms of All Kinds
Read March 09
Flannery O'Connor: Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose
(in progress)
Peggy Noonan: Patriotic Grace: What It Is and Why We Need It Now
Read February 09
Jane Austen: Sense and Sensibility (Penguin Classics)
Joseph Bharat Cornell: Sharing Nature With Children (20th Anniversary Edition, Revised and Expanded)
Read January 09
Hendrik Willem Van Loon: Story of Mankind
In progress April '09
Amanda Blake Soule: The Creative Family: How to Encourage Imagination and Nurture Family Connections
Read January 09
Josephine Tey: The Daughter of Time
Read June 09
Elizabeth Spires: The Mouse of Amherst
Read January 09, so cute!
The Oxford Book of English Verse, 1250-1918
LOVE this!! Reading from this weekly.
Clyde Robert Bulla: The Sword in the Tree (Trophy Chapter Book)
Read February 09
Mary Griffith: The Unschooling Handbook : How to Use the Whole World As Your Child's Classroom
Read January 09
Rachel Gathercole: The Well-Adjusted Child: The Social Benefits of Homeschooling
Read June '09
David R. Foster: Thoreau's Country: Journey through a Transformed Landscape
Read February 09
Maud Hart Lovelace: Winona's Pony Cart (Deep Valley Books)
Read January 09

Picture Books for Nature Study

Fun With Grammar

Ruth Heller: Kites Sail High (Ruth Heller World of Language)
Such great illustrations, a fun way to learn about verbs!
Ruth Heller: A Cache of Jewels (World of Language)
Patricia Thomas: Red Sled
Actually a Poetry book!
Ruth Heller: Merry-Go-Round: A Book About Nouns (World of Language)
Crazy Like a Fox: A Simile Story

History

H. E. Marshall: Our Island Story
(in progress)
Robert T. Reilly: Red Hugh: Prince of Donegal
Read Aloud '08
Editors of Kingfisher: The Kingfisher History Encyclopedia
Susan Wise Bauer: The Story of the World: History for the Classical Child, Volume 3: Early Modern Times
Elizabeth Borton De Trevino: Nacar: The White Deer (Living History Library)
Violet read Nov '08
Elizabeth Janet Gray: Adam of the Road
Violet read Oct '08
Ethel C. Brill: Madeleine Takes Command (Living History Library, Audio CD's)
All listened Feb-Mar '09
Elizabeth Yates: With Pipe, Paddle and Song: A Story of the French-Canadian Voyageurs
Read March 09
Marguerite Henry: ROBERT FULTON BOY CRAFTSMAN
Matthias read Oct '08
Elizabeth George Speare: The Sign of the Beaver
Matthias listened Nov '08
May Lamberton Becker: Presenting Miss Jane Austen
Jean Lee Latham: Carry On, Mr. Bowditch
Matthias read Dec 08
Leonard Wibberley: John Treegate's Musket (Living History Library)
Violet (in progress)
Caroline Dale Snedeker: Downright Dencey (Young Adult Library)
Kathryn Worth: They Loved to Laugh (Young Adult Bookshelf)
John D. Fitzgerald: Brave Buffalo Fighter (Young Adult Bookshelf Ser)
Elizabeth George Speare: The Witch of Blackbird Pond
Violet read Sept. 08
Elizabeth George-Speare: The Bronze Bow
Violet read Nov 08
Kate Seredy: The Good Master
Violet read Dec 08
Kate Seredy: The Singing Tree
Violet reading Dec 08
Howard Pyle: Men of Iron
Karen Schwabach: The Hope Chest
Violet Read Feb '09
Sid Fleischman: By the Great Horn Spoon!
Violet Read March '09
Elizabeth Marie Pope: The Sherwood Ring
Violet Read April '09
Patricia Reilly Giff: Nory Ryan's Song
Violet Read April '09
Irene Hunt: Across Five Aprils
Violet read April '09
Scott O'Dell: Sing Down the Moon
Violet read April '09
Elizabeth Foreman Lewis: Young Fu of the Upper Yangtze
Violet Read April '09
El Konigsburg: A Proud Taste for Scarlet and Miniver (A Yearling Book)
Violet Read May '09

Poetry

Poetry for Young People: Robert Frost
Dec-Jan Poet 08-09
Glenn Harrington: Poetry for Young People: William Butler Yeats
January Poet 09
Poetry for Young People: William Shakespeare (Poetry For Young People)
Also requested regularly, you can just never have enough Shakespeare!
Poetry for Young People: Emily Dickinson (Poetry For Young People)
Read repeatedly and requested most often :)
Paul Fleischman: Joyful Noise: Poems for Two Voices
This is beautiful, recommended by Lissa at Bonny Glen!
Robert Louis Stevenson: A Child's Garden of Verses (Dover Children's Thrift Classics)
Eric carle's animals animals
Laura M. Berquist: The Harp and Laurel Wreath, Poetry and Dictation For The Classical Curriculum
Christina Georgina Rossetti: Sing Song: A Nursery Rhyme Book
Classic Poetry : An Illustrated Collection
Helen Ferris: Favorite Poems Old and New

Matthias's 1st Holy Communion Notebook 2006

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Montessori Home Schooling Sweetness Style

Here will be my page dedicated to Montessori learning and the posts that I have created to quickly get you to the heart of home schooling with Montessori!! Have fun perusing and I'll update as I can!

My Montessori Talk at the 4Real Learning Conference (August 11, 2007) This includes handouts and a Q & A from the Forums

Montessori Make Your Own (Round 1)

Montessori Make Your Own (Round 2)

Montessori Make Your Own (Round 3)

Montessori for the Toddler Years (Carnival of Toddlers)

Montessori Inspired Geography Center

Geography Center Redux

Pictures of my Littles doing some Practical Life Activities

Some Ideas for *What* to put on a Tray

Working on a Mat

Some More Practical Life in Pictures

Practically Learning Galore!

Sensational Sensorial

My Book :: Available Now!

Mondays With Mary: A Celebration of Marian Feasts Throughout the Year

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My Book :: Reviews

Sweetness Detailed

Archives & Categories

NW Catholic Conference Supplements

My Conference Talk Audio CD May 2009
"Nuturing Catholic Family Life by Living the Liturgical Year"
The Merry Month of May
Appendix from my book for the Month of May! My gift to you :)
Daily Prayer With Children
Ideas for you to use with your family!