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We are a Canadian homesquirreling family. Dad, known as Mr. Fixit, has lined the nest with old copies of Popular Mechanics. Mama Squirrel enjoys reading, scrounging, and raising the squirrelings: The Apprentice, Ponytails, and Crayons. And there's Uncle Dewey, who is made of polyester and imagination and has lived in our treehouse for years. Climb up, you're welcome!


Tuesday, January 25, 2011

Carnivals this Week

Spruce Up Your Finances hosts the 264th Festival of Frugality.

HomeschoolBytes has posted the Carnival of Homeschooling: World School Edition.

And Epi Kardia hosts the Charlotte Mason Carnival: Godey's Lady's Book Edition.
Posted by Mama Squirrel at 10:52 AM
Labels: Blogworld, Carnival of Homeschooling, Carnivals, Charlotte Mason, Frugality, Homeschooling

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Misty said...

Thanks for the mention!

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Climbing up here for the first time? (About us)

  • A View from the Blog
  • Our Interview on Frugal Hacks (2007)
  • Why there weren't enough children's books...and there aren't enough children's books
  • Love of Learning with Planning and Purpose
  • The Weight of Too Much Liberty
  • Notes from a Book Talk
  • Math Posts
  • All Around the Kitchen
  • 50 or so Things About Mama Squirrel (now with You-tube!)
  • From the Mind of Crayons

On the Treehouse fridge

"Both policy maker as strategist and school administrator as educator resemble the farmer who tries to plow a field with his eyes on the plow rather than on that imaginary point on the horizon on which he must fix his gaze if he expects to leave a straight furrow."--David V. Hicks, Norms and Nobility

Mama Squirrel's Reading List for 2012 (R means reread, § means finished)

  • For the Family's Sake, by Susan Schaeffer Macaulay (R)
  • The Idea of a University, by John Henry Newman
  • Feynman's Rainbow: A Search for Beauty in Physics and in Life, by Leonard Mlodinow
  • Fermat's Last Theorem, by Amir D. Aczel
  • The Mind of the Maker, by Dorothy L. Sayers
  • On the Art of Reading, by Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch
  • Leisure: The Basis of Culture, by Josef Pieper
  • The Art of Fiction, by John Gardner (R) §
  • Mothers and Daughters at Home: 35 Projects to Make, by Charlotte Lyons (R) §
  • 1/2 Price Living, by Ellie Kay (R) §
  • J.B., by Archibald MacLeish §
  • Our Man in Havana, by Graham Greene §
  • The Big What Now Book of Learning Styles, by Carol Barnier (Recommended!) §
  • The Myth of Ability: Nurturing Mathematical Talent in Every Child, by John Mighton (R) §
  • Rumpole and the Age of Miracles, by John Mortimer §
  • Rumpole and the Golden Thread, by John Mortimer §
  • Rumpole and the Penge Bungalow Murders, by John Mortimer §
  • Remembered Death, by Agatha Christie §
  • An Expert in Murder, by Nicola Upson (not recommended) §
  • The House of Silk, by Anthony Horowitz (Sherlock Holmes, but not for weak stomachs) §
  • The Nine Tailors, by Dorothy L. Sayers §
  • Strong Poison, by Dorothy L. Sayers §
  • Busman's Honeymoon, by Dorothy L. Sayers (R) §
  • The Complete Stories, by Dorothy L. Sayers §
  • On the Beach, by Nevil Shute (R) §
  • Lorna Doone (abridged), by R.D. Blackmore §
  • Sesame and Lilies, by John Ruskin (R)
  • On the Art of Writing, by Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch §
  • Parts of Pilgrim's Progress (RRR)
  • 84, Charing Cross Road, by Helene Hanff (R) §
  • Q's Legacy, by Helene Hanff §
  • Imagining Anne: The Island Scrapbooks of L.M. Montgomery §
  • Emily of New Moon (R) §
  • The Ringmaster's Daughter, by Jostein Gaarder § (strong adult content) §
  • Crimson Mountain, by Grace Livingston Hill §
  • Where Two Ways Met, by Grace Livingston Hill §
  • In the Company of Others, by Jan Karon §
  • Bookless in Baghdad, by Shashi Tharoor §
  • Things as They Are, by Paul Horgan (adult content) §
  • Crossing Unmarked Snow: Further Views on the Writer's Vocation, by William Stafford §
  • Your God is Too Small, by J.B. Phillips §
  • Your Money or Your Life, by Joe Dominguez and Vicki Robin §
  • It's All Too Much: An Easy Plan for Living a Richer Life with Less Stuff, by Peter Walsh §
  • The Tightwad Gazette Volume 3 (R) §
  • I Could Do Anything If I Only Knew What it Was, by Barbara Sher §
  • QuickBooks 2011 for Dummies §

Our Homeschool Curriculum


2011-2012 School Plans

  • Planning for Grade Six
  • Term 3 (Spring 2012)
  • November 2011 update
  • Revisions to Crayons' fall school plans
  • Tentative plans for Crayons' Grade Five

Charlotte Mason Homeschooling

  • Posts from "A Month with Charlotte Mason"
  • The Great Wide Road, The Adventure We Are Given (2011)
  • Multiplication without Vexation
  • Kings and Heroes
  • Only Three Tools
  • What's a Japanese curtain?
  • Too Much British History?
  • Permission to be serious
  • The Thing That Lives in Your Brain
  • Don't Talk Over the Music
  • No Guarantees
  • Children Shouldn't Read Dead Things
  • Charlotte Mason, Beyond Us
  • Prophets in the Home
  • Review of Marva Collins' Way

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"To try to teach literature by starting with the applied use of words, or 'effective communication', as it's often called, then gradually work into literature through the more documentary forms of prose fiction and finally into poetry, seems to me a futile procedure. If literature is to be properly taught, we have to start at its centre, which is poetry, then work outwards to literary prose, then outwards from there to the applied languages of business and professions and ordinary life."--Northrop Frye, The Educated Imagination

More Acorns in the Hole (Frugal Stuff)

  • Our guest post on Grocery Cart Challenge
  • Abundance of the Heart (less money, more joy)
  • 2010-2011 Homeschooling (Mostly Frugal)
  • Low Cost/No Cost Homeschool Stuff
  • Is there a homeschool store in your cupboard?
  • Shopping Bag Homeschool
  • Improvised French Curriculum
  • Birthdays and Frugality
  • A Non-Stupid Christmas
  • Frugal Christmas 2006
  • December is Putting Together
  • Gift Baskets
  • January Grocery Challenge 2010
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Other Links

  • Good ideas for frugal recipes
  • Los Banos Homeschoolers: a site with great printables
  • The Why Homeschool blog - owners of the Carnival of Homeschooling
  • HomeschoolBuzz.com - homeschooling news from around the world
  • If Blue Eyeshadow's Illegal, I Should Be In Prison (by the apprentice)
  • Stump The Bookseller

Carnivals We've Hosted

  • Carnival of Homeschooling #334: Floatin' Down the River
  • Festival of Frugality #330: Before You Take Out a Lion
  • Charlotte Mason Blog Carnival: It's About Time
  • Festival of Frugality #309: Don't Be a Cash Potato
  • Carnival of Homeschooling #304: Rollerskating in a Buffalo Herd
  • Carnival of Homeschooling #280: Ten and Counting
  • Carnival of Homeschooling #253: Singing a Happy Song
  • Carnival of Homeschooling #226: Wrinkly Superhero
  • Charlotte Mason Blog Carnival: Stuff CMers Like
  • Carnival of Homeschooling #194: Creatures and Critters
  • Carnival of Homeschooling #162: Identity Crisis Edition
  • Carnival of Homeschooling #130: Homesick Campers' Edition
  • Carnival of Homeschooling #101: Snowed-In Edition
  • Charlotte Mason Blog Carnival #4
  • Carnival of Homeschooling #85: School Stuff Edition
  • Carnival of Homeschooling #70: The Yes No Yes Edition
  • Carnival of Homeschooling #55: Parents' Meeting Edition

Nominated: Best Methods Blog

Nominated: Best Methods Blog

Nominated for Best Thrifty Homeschool Blog

Nominated for Best Thrifty Homeschool Blog

Winner of "Best Cyber-Buddy Blogger"

Winner of "Best Cyber-Buddy Blogger"

Nominated for "Best Cyber-buddy Blogger" and "Best Thrifty Homeschool Blog"

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Nominated for "Best Canadian Homeschool Blog"

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