CPQ June Newsletter
This week is 4th of July Camp at our house. A local church puts on an annual camp where the kids study, do crafts, sing songs, and touch and feel replications and antiques from the Revolutionary War. Every year is a different theme. They have studied the making of the Constitution, African Americans of the Revolution, Women of the Revolution, the Declaration of Independence, and now, the Boston Tea Party. I check it off as school (of course), but the more we go, and as they increased the age limit to allow my oldest to still come and participate because she loves it, I am reminded what a special experience of care and love this particular camp is for my kids. It is not often in today’s world that you find a group of people willing to donate their time and resources simply to educate children, with no personal recognition or gain. It is a small, local treasure and has given my children both a rich educational opportunity—a slow and intentional deep-dive into a very important period of our nation’s history—and a unique way of experiencing the love of the local church.
With so many internet opportunities available to us, it is easy to forget about the local community around us. And maybe Tucson, being a really big city with more of a small-town feel is just uniquely situated to this, but I really think it’s not. There are local gems of knowledge and community available to us, no matter where we are. That's what makes them local gems, right? And it is good to find them and to graft ourselves and our families into them if we can.
On The CPQ Blog
Education in an Atmosphere (Neurodivergent Edition)
Some Days Must be Dark and Dreary (Longfellow and Me)
Magazine Overview
In the mail: The Beauty issue
In layout: Grand Conversations issue
In Copy-edit: Habit of Reading issue
Getting Year 6 into Asana: the first issue will be Fortitude
**The preorder list for our Habit of Reading issue closes on August 31st!
A Little Something Fun
We have enjoyed diving down the rabbit hole on the topic of beauty as we worked on the latest issue. As we did so, we put together a playlist, and thought you’d enjoy it too!
CPQ Read Along
For those of you who have been reading Teaching A Stone to Talk by Annie Dillard, here are some polls to answer! The results will be published in our Grand Conversations issue.
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What’s Cara…
Reading: aaalll the prereading: One Real American: The Life of Ely S. Parker, Courageous Women of the Civil War by M.R. Cordell and Dark Sky Rising: Reconstruction and the Dawn of Jim Crow by Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
Thinking about: how to create school plans and the value of local involvement and learning.
Listening to: Songs of the Revolutionary War by the United States Heritage of America Band
Eating: taco lasagna from Passionate Penny Pincher
Watching: The Mentalist with my husband
Learning: how to structure a formal writing pathway for a classroom using Charlotte Mason’s methods
Drinking: water
What’s Mariah…
Reading: Perelandra by C.S. Lewis and Brave the Wild River: The Untold Story of Two Women Who Mapped the Botany of the Grand Canyon by Melissa L. Sevigny
Listening to: that still, small voice as some things for next school year roll around in my head while I enjoy my summer.
Thinking about: my poor string-of-turtles plant that has gone to a better place, but also wondering if the plant store has another one I can buy.
Cooking: beer can chicken on the smoker.
Watching: The Great American Baking Show.
Learning: to dance the cumbia and also all of the health benefits of celtic salt
Drinking: Sun tea with mint leaves in it from my herb garden.
What’s Sarah…
Reading: Ahimsa by Supriya Kelkar and Stalin: Russia’s Man of Steel by Albert Marin
Thinking about: what it means to live a quiet life in holiness and goodness (1 Timothy 2:2)
Eating: baked pepperoni chips
Watching: AlphaGo under my husband’s influence. Surprisingly found it pretty riveting.
Learning: the 20th Century (prereading for the school year)
Making: Piles of books around my house while I finalize school plans
Drinking: Electrolytes (decreasing carbs is no joke)
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