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Curriculum Guide:

The Well-Trained Mind: A Guide to Classical Education at Home

Reading:

In Search of a Homeland: The Story of the Aeneid

Black Ships Before Troy: The Story of ‘The Iliad’

The Wanderings of Odysseus

Augustus Caesar’s World

Archimedes and the Door of Science

Galen and the Gateway to Medicine

The Mystery of the Periodic Table

Herodotus and the Road to History

Percy Jackson & the Olympians series

The Son of Neptune

The Mark of Athena

The House of Hades

Writing and Grammar:

Rod & Staff English Level 5

Spelling:

Rod & Staff Spelling Level 5

Penmanship:

Spencerian Handwriting

Math:

History and Classical Studies:

D’aulaire’s Book of Greek Myths

D’Aulaires’ Greek Myths Student Guide

D’Aulaires’ Greek Myths Teacher Guide

Famous Men of Greece

Famous Men of Greece Teacher Guide

Famous Men of Greece Student Guide

Foreign Language:

Additional study online depending on the language.

Science:

Exploring Creation with Botany, Textbook

DK Eyewitness Books: Chemistry

The Elements: A Visual Exploration of Every Known Atom in the Universe

Master the Periodic Table of Elements Worksheets

Music:

Classics for Kids

Piano practice

Art:

We use modeling clay, washable watercolors, watercolor pencils, paper, pencils, crayons, glue, construction paper, etc.

Greek Mythology Shadow Puppets

50 Things to Draw and Paint

Usborne Art Ideas Big Book of Things to Draw

Ancient Greece Coloring Pages

Typing:

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An update on the garden, construction mess and all

An update on the garden, construction mess and all:

Getting things ready means having a lot out all the time but we are taking advantage of every moment we can to progress in the garden.

Yesterday, on Earth Day, I was planting fruit trees and we had people here setting the concrete forms. There will be concrete paths where there were grass paths, as well as where there was a larger grass area for the children to run and play. We will just have to play a little differently now on the paths (There will be still be grass under the swings, around the merry-go-round, and right around the trampoline).

The center rectangular planter that you see in the photo (and its twin behind the circle) will both be planted with Fordhook Giant Swiss Chard. I'll have food and flowers throughout my potager.

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The white garden is blooming so beautifully this m

The white garden is blooming so beautifully this morning! Festiva Maxima peonies (next year I will stake them), Iceberg roses, artichokes, calla lilies, snapdragons, and honeysuckle! There are apricots on my Katy apricot tree that will be ready next month and peaches on my Early Elberta that will be ripe in July.

This is my front yard in the desert. The entire garden is watered on drip irrigation for 3 minutes at a time, 3 times a day, and 3 days a week right now.

When the backyard is done being made over, it will be in this same style. It will, of course, take several years to grow in. We redid this garden 8 years ago.

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We're finishing up a few backyard projects in prep

We're finishing up a few backyard projects in preparation for concrete! It's taken a long time to get to this point, but the foundation of the garden is so important.

In the gardening classes I took here 20 years ago, the now deceased Linn Mills taught, "If you have $1 to spend on a garden, spend $0.90 on dirt and $0.10 on seeds." Good soil is that important.

I'm so excited to see this idea that has been floating around in my head for several years become a reality. I'm also excited to grow more food and flowers in the garden, and to make spots that were underutilized into more effective uses of space.

Calla lilies are from my white garden, grown in full shade.

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Updates on our garden project: I trimmed these bo

Updates on our garden project:

I trimmed these boxwood bushes from the nursery into spheres. It will take several years for them to fill in, but we have a start!

We dug the last garden bed on Saturday and ran water and electricity pipes (and wires). This morning we filled this bed in with soil.

Lastly, there is a video from Sunday morning of the garden. The outlines of each bed are much more obvious. You can see the two large circles as well as the other beds, filled in with new soil, standing out against our white lime rocky ground.

There's a new blog post up on the blog with our frugal accomplishments from last week! Link in bio.

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Welcoming Margo Koster, the newest rose, to my gar

Welcoming Margo Koster, the newest rose, to my garden.

This is a tiny little polyantha rose; it is miniature in size and has some variation in color; some are more pink, some more coral, and some peach. Closed up it looks just like the peonies that have also started to bloom in my garden, but it is much, much smaller. In fact, it is smaller than you are seeing it right now on your phone.

It does not appear to have a fragrance but is nevertheless still quite exquisite.

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