Hurt No Living Thing and our start to CM HSing
September 4th, 2008 at 10:58 am (Copywork, Quotes, Poetry, Charlotte Mason)
We have “officially” started back to school. We are concentrating on a Charlotte Mason approach this year and I am borrowing lots of good ideas from Ambleside Online. We are doing short lessons in the morning in math, copywork and reading. There is still lots of time to play outdoors which is a high priority for me. Today all three of them rode their bikes in front of our house and played in the yard. When they came in to do schoolwork, they seemed ready to settle down and work on their math workbooks. There was actual quiet in my house for those 20 minutes or so! Then after a short break we did copy work:
Hurt No Living Thing by Christina Rossetti.
Hurt no living thing:
Ladybird, nor butterfly,
Nor moth with dusty wing,
Nor cricket chirping cheerily,
Nor grasshopper so light of leap,
Nor dancing gnat, nor beetle fat,
Nor harmless worms that creep.
This is a great poem and dovetails nicely with the yogic philosophy of non-violence, something I am concentrating on this week. Later today, we plan to make rice krispie bars, have teatime, and read some more. I also hope to get some cleaning done. And maybe we will even watch the Nancy Drew DVD we picked up from the library.
