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Simple Beauty Americans: February
Here are the links to our suggestions for beautiful things for February, with a focus on beautiful words, sounds, and places that are distinctly American and focus on the late 1800s and early 1900s....
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Nature Study: Stars
Nature study is harder in February than at other times of the year. Flowers are dormant. Creatures are hiding. Trees are bare. But, the night sky is beautiful. It gets dark early, and the cold seems...
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Jackson Pollock
Jackson Pollock was an American artist who was born in 1812 in Wyoming. He grew up with several brothers. He is known for making huge paintings by splattering, throwing, and dripping paint onto...
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Robert Frost
Robert Frost was born in San Francisco in 1874. When he was a child, his family moved to New England, and he stayed there for most of his life. He started writing poems when he was sixteen, and he...
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Aaron Copland
Aaron Copland was born in 1900. He loved to write music and even more so, he loved to teach people how to enjoy it. He grew up in New York City, where he heard all kinds of music. During his lifetime,...
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Nature Study Weather
Nature study can be as simple as a short walk in the neighborhood or as elaborate as a week in Yellowstone National Park. Don’t make it hard. Just go outside. This month, we suggest you spend some...
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Simple Beauty Americans: March
Here are the links to our suggestions for beautiful things for March, with a focus on beautiful words, sounds, and places that are distinctly American and focus on the late 1800s and early 1900s. Back...
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Nature Study: Flowers
Nature study can be as simple as a short walk in the neighborhood or as elaborate as a week in a National Park. Don’t make it complicated. Just go outside. This month, we suggest you spend some time...
View ArticleJohn Williams (1932-present)
Have you ever watched a film in which the action moves on powerful music? Movie producers and directors Steven Spielberg said of his friend, “without John Williams, bikes don’t fly. Nor do brooms in...
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William Carlos Williams (1883-1963)
William Carlos Williams crew at speaking three languages (English, Spanish, French), and listening to his father tell stories and read Shakespeare in the evenings. The stories were about adventures...
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Georgia O’Keeffe (1887-1986)
Georgia O’Keeffe was born on a farm in Wisconsin in 1887. She spent a large part of her life admiring natural things, from flowers and seashells to mountains and animal bones found in the desert....
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Simple Beauty Americans April
Here are the links to our suggestions for beautiful things for April, with a focus on beautiful words, sounds, and places that are distinctly American and in the Twentieth Century. Back to Simple...
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Andy Warhol
Andy Warhol was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in 1928. He was one of the first pop artists. Most of his work is brightly colored, and often, he depicted things that were a popular part of everyday...
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Maya Angelou
Maya Angelou was born in 1927. She grew up in Stamps, Arkansas with her brother And her grandmother. “Stamps was a small Southern town, harsh and unyielding, by custom and practice, and its history of...
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Nature Study: Spring Birds
Spring Birds Nature study can be as simple as a short walk in the neighborhood or as elaborate as a week in a National Park. Don’t make it hard. Just go outside. This month, we suggest you spend some...
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Simple Beauty Americans: May
Here are the links to our suggestions for beautiful things for May, with a focus on beautiful words, sounds, and places that are distinctly American and in the Twentieth Century. Back to Simple Beauty...
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How to Plan a Nature Study Trip
Nature study has been one of the most enjoyable things we’ve done as a family. It has offered multiple benefits including fostering quality family time, honing observation skills, studying nature in...
View ArticleTeaching the Theological Truths at the Heart of Science
As humans, we naturally break things up into pieces. We separate work time and playtime. We separate reading from watching movies, and we separate art from science. These separations are good and...
View ArticleLorenzo Ghiberti
Picture Study is simple. Look at the picture with your children for a few minutes and then talk about what you saw. Try to remember as much about the piece as you can. Enjoy the beauty of it. Art is...
View ArticleThe Doxology (or Praise God from whom All Blessings Flow)
Hymns are beautiful truths poetically told, hung on a rhythm, and held in a melody. This makes them memorable. Hymn study is extremely simple. Sing the hymn once a day. We’ve provided you links to...
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