Serendipity

Thanks to Elizabeth our “tapestry” of life is full of many new beautiful threads. We started traveling down the serendipitous path of delightful and directed learning a couple of weeks ago and it has been delightful. We look forward to each days adventures, amazed at the way everything that we’re doing is weaving together seamlessly.

As we started down the alphabet path, we began listening to The Secret Garden on Librivox. While listening, Peter draws and paints and models with beeswax. We’ve added in two Thornton W. Burgess books, The Burgess Bird Book for Children and The Burgess Animal Book for Children. Additionally, we read from James Herriot’s Treasury for Children.

Each day we study a new flower providing another opportunity for artful expression. We have had so many serendipitous moments and are making so many “connections.” While listening to The Secret Garden, our weather and several birds and critters have cooperated wonderfully by providing living examples of various passages from the text. Its been such fun to watch Peter as he realizes that a flower we’ve just studied is being discussed between Dicken and Mary.

We’ve been baking, reading wonderful picture books, looking at beautiful art, and learning about the lives of people who love God. We love it!

I have modified math a bit. Rather than Gnomes and Gnumbers, we are using Knights and Knumbers. Serendipitously, we already had knights with mathematical symbols on them and gems from a previous math venture.