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Showing posts with label Donna Simmons. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Donna Simmons. Show all posts

Friday, January 23, 2009

Christopherus Offers The Madonna Cloak Project

Donna Simmons of Christopherus Homeschool is offering a new project called The Madonna Project.

Read about it here:
http://christopherushomeschool.typepad.com/blog/2008/11/introducing-the-madonna-cloak-project.html

I have not been as active in her online groups as I should. In fact, I haven't even read anything to keep up lately. Not since before the move to IL actually. I have a great deal of respect for Donna. We have her pre-school, kindergarten and first grade syllabus books--and whether anyone around me really cares to admit it or not I follow quite a bit of what's in them--even if it is not all of them or all of it.
We are still waiting for E to get her front teeth in--even though some days I get nervous about whether they will come in or not (her front teeth were removed when she was about 3 because I listened to my pediatrician rather than my instincts with her--N lost his front teeth at about the same age because he was climbing and fell--I am hoping and praying subsequent kids get to keep all their teeth).
Even though I still have some Montessori stuff we do--just to placate the masses. I don't feel the need to stress over it so much anymore, despite my detractors.

The Madonna Cloak Project really appeals to me on so many levels.

I have been running through the past few days, prior to learning about this project, the fact that I need to pull up my Steiner books for myself and get re-started. I do still want to attend a Steiner/Waldorf teacher training program at some point. It really has been on my extended list of things to do to start the researching again--since my data there has been lost--except what I have printed out--which is mostly just syllabi.

Please read about Donna's project. If it resonates with you, please do what you can. Thank you.