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07-18-2009, 09:05 AM

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Originally Posted by tryin-to-FROG

OK I have been reading on the ambleside site Tons of great information. My first concern is - I was reading the sections about learning outside and naturewalks. It seems like the mother has lots of knowledge about the plant parts, species of flowers and trees etc. Is this something you just prepare ahead of time if you don't know all these things?

And if mother is outside with them when is the housework getting done?

I am really interested in this, just wondering how to make it work for us

And do you still do french or I was thinking maybe latin or spanish instead?

We've just really started doing nature study last year...I don't have alot of knowledge about nature either. What we do is take pics of things we see on our walk. Using a handbook, or the internet, we try to identify what it is, then study further into it. DD will try to draw pics of what we see, write about it too. We also have been doing gardening to learn about plants and how they grow, etc.... Alot of the learning happens just with observation, and knowing the names of everything you see can come later.

I'm planning on buying The Handbook of Nature Study that AO recommends...

For language study, we won't be doing French. CM originated in England, but you can adapt it to what makes sense for you. We will be studying Latin first, then Spanish. I also will not be emphasizing British history as much, but incorporating some of my own heritage's history, as well as more focus on American history, sticking with CM methods.

If you have specific questions, it might be a good idea to start a new thread to get more responses.

Hope this helps some!

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