At The Worcester Art Museum

Yesterday was our  first trip to the Worcester Art Museum, and we had a total blast! We wrapped up not one, not to, but four blocks (Ancient Egypt, Ancient Rome, Ancient Greece and the Middle Ages) during this trip! It was so neat to be able to get up close to so many incredible artifacts from those time periods. Our only disappointment is that the Higgins armory collection is very small (compared to when it was housed in it's own, incredible building). If the Higgins Armory Museum was still around (and we really wish it was!) that would have been the perfect place to wrap up Grace's Middle Ages block. Alas, that's no longer the case but the items at WAM did just fine too. xo 

Yesterday And Today

More beautiful Waldorf geometry constructions from yesterday and today. And yes, Emma indeed did lessons in her jammies today!  xo 

A New Year, A New Block

Kicking off the first day of morning lessons of the new year with some beautiful Waldorf geometry! Goodness, if this was what geometry class was like when I was in school maybe I wouldn't have just barely passed! xo 

Happy First Day!

Emma's standing in fifth position since she's in fifth grade! 

 I just adore these signs! 

 The Ingalls family keeps watch on the roses for the Rose Ceremony. 

 There is nothing like a new set of colored pencils to start the new lesson year! 

 A little first day of lessons photo shoot (with the gorgeous signs my dear, dear friend Cher hand lettered!), followed by our traditional first day of the new lesson year Rose Ceremony, followed by organizing main lesson binders and filling pencil rolls made for a very full morning for the first day of lessons this year! And after all that, they dove right in to their first main lesson block of the year too! It's lovely to be back to lessons and our autumn rhythm, I have the feeling this is going to be one of our most amazing years yet! xo 

And That's A Wrap!

Another year of morning lessons is now in the books (and what an incredible year it was)! We had a blast diving back into the Revolution (in preparation for our trip to Williamsburg) as well as the  human and animal block that was so enjoyed last year, too. And it was absolutely lovely to get to explore the world of botany together for the first time this year too! With their last pages completed, it was decided (decreed, really)  that waffle cones from New City were needed to honor the end of lessons and to welcome the arrival of summer break!

We'll continue to read each day this summer, and there will be some cooking and baking (and a bit of math, too), but as anyone who knows us knows, summers for us are all about copious amounts of time spent outside and seeing where each day takes us. It's funny to me but each year in early May, without intentionally doing so we seem to begin to slowly shift gears and move into our summer rhythm, It's as if we all just internally know, on the same day, that it's time. Time for the winding down of lessons and activities and time for the slow and lovely days of summer to arrive. xo