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How to Do a Dictation Lesson
Written by Charity Miley Dictation is the next step after copywork. Dictation focuses on spelling and grammar. First select a passage, the passage can be from a book, poem, recipe, a famous quote and must be good literature. At Live Oak, we select passages from the lesson readings and from the poetry book. Second, have…
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A Day in the Life of the Tadpole Class
“The consideration of out-of-door life, in developing a method of education, comes second in order; because my object is to show that the chief function of the child–his business in the world during the first six or seven years of his life–is to find out all he can, about whatever comes under his notice, by…
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Live Oak Education
2025/2026 Calendar ─ Live Oak 25/26 School Calendar First Day of School- Tuesday, September 9th Live Oak Fall Festival- Thursday, October 30th Thanksgiving Break- November 25th and 27th Christmas Break- December 23rd- January 8th All Staff and Parent Meeting- Thursday January 8th Live Oak Spring Festival- Thursday April 2nd Easter Break- April 7th and 9th…
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Form 3
Schooling utilizing the Charlotte Mason philosophy through the Junior High years, what is that like? So many of us are asking this question. Moving forward what will the CM method look like for my student when they are older? One of our substitutes shares her experience from helping us with our oldest students at Live…
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A Day in the Life of Form 1
Our day “officially” begins at 10:00, kids are being dropped off and immediately climbing trees and jumping right into play that they had left a few days before. For those looking to get an earlier start to their day we begin with what we call “morning meeting” from 9:30-10:00am. The morning meeting sets our intention…
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Our first “real” rainy day!
Until this day, we had not received more than a drizzle at Live Oak! Thursday was our first “real” rain. The moment we stepped out of the van we were reaching for our umbrellas. The first thing we all wanted to do was check our dry creek bed. It was still dry- despite it raining…
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