Home Schooling

November and April when the trees are first bare and last naked have become my favorite months. All the food eaten except last rose hips and earliest leeks. Leaves innocent as dying men and infants. Study one plant or animal each morning before writing anything. All reading - poetry or prose, truth or fiction - classified the same, the distinguishing characteristics being helpful or boring, beautifully or indifferently written. Then practice trumpet worried not at all about my sound or perfection. Afternoon, my sons return from school, math and (again) reading, piano. Wednesdays we walk observe plants and animals and record our observations to identify and classify later in the week. Nothing else special need be done but stay alive.