"A CM education is not so complicated as I see people making it... try just reading, narrating, discussing in small bites. sing together. Don't turn folk songs and hymns into lessons. Just sing. Don't turn poetry into a formal school lesson. Just read it. Rinse, repeat. Go for a walk. Enjoy nature. Get out coloured pencils and sketch something, anything, a few times a week over a year. Don't make big, elaborate plans. You need not duplicate your school experience. Don't bother with printable coloring pages and flash cards and timeline figures. You don't need them. You need your books or the computer or kindle, music and a way to play it, paper and writing utensils (or salt in a cake pan and a finger). Make a timeline figure from index cards onto which you trace a basic cookie cutter shape. Use beanie babies, legos, dolls, or more index card (or plain paper) paper dolls your kids create to tell the stories. Lighten the load. If a printable isn't recommended on our website, you can probably live without it. You could even thrive without it."
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| enjoying a local wildflower meadow |
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