5 Activities for Children At Home
Life Giving and Technology Free
Here are five ways your child can continue growing and learning while at home. These reinforce the lessons created by Ambleside for our At Home Learning curriculum, but they are enriching and life giving on their on!
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In early January we held a chili dinner for alumni of Ambleside School in McLean, Virginia. It has been seventeen years since I took the helm of Ambleside, and sitting with these young graduates—high school students, college students, and professionals, I was reminded of the long road we are on with our students and the distant vision of growth parents and teachers need to endure the difficulties along the way.
One student was eager to share his latest wisdom from his freshman year in college:
It’s so great that students at Ambleside listen to Mozart. It’s as if there is a distant drum beat that reminds me that there is something good and true in the world, and I can do something good and true in it. My friends at college don’t have this.
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Nature Study Lesson, created for 4th Grade At Home Learning
For the next few weeks azaleas will put on a marvelous display of color ranging from solid white, light pink, and lavender to bright oranges, pinks, and purples… Take a walk around your yard (if you have some) or your neighborhood and see how many different colors of this flowering shrub you can find.
Choose your favorite.
What do you notice about the leaves’ color and edges?
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Every Friday at Ambleside, we hold a community chapel service that we share with teachers, students, and parents. While we cannot gather for chapel in person, we wanted to offer our families some resources to join together spiritually and share chapel at home. We invite you to use this video as an anchor for your own chapel service as a family today.
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Every week, we will share a hymn for you and your families to reflect on and familiarize yourselves with. On Fridays, we will use these “Hymns of the Week” in our Chapel videos.
Please use this music, created by our Music Instructor, Sarah Wilcox, as best fits the rhythms of your household.
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Here is the scripture and art from today’s Ambleside Notes, to serve as a meditation for the beginning of Holy Week. Holy Week begins with Palm Sunday, April 5, the events of which are represented in the artwork here and in the account from Matthew below.
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Here you will find a video from our Head of School with the Hymn of the Week and scripture reading, followed by a video of our Passover Chapel teaching.
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Tomorrow, we will post the Passover Chapel video, where Deb Perry and Kate Perry guide us through the liturgy of a Passover meal.
But there is more to the feast than the moment of the meal itself. Kate Perry explains here how she and her family prepare the elements of the Passover meal and how the act of preparation can be spiritually instructive for both adults and children.
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Every year, Ambleside holds a special chapel service near the beginning of Holy Week to teach our students about Passover, the Jewish festival to commemorate God’s deliverance of the Israelites from slavery in Egypt [Exodus 12]. The Passover meal is doubly significant for Christians, as the last moment Jesus shared with his disciples before his trial and crucifixion [Mark 14]. One way we prepare to enter Holy Week at Ambleside, which is structured to help us remember events from Christ’s life, is to corporately engage the liturgy of the Passover.
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Hi students! I miss you all and hope you are doing well. Here is our hymn for the week: O Sacred Head, Now Wounded. When you listen during the week, I hope you will take a minute to reflect on the words and use them as a prayer. You can also sing along with the harmony if you want!
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O God of peace, who hast taught us that in returning and
rest we shall be saved, in quietness and confidence shall be
our strength: By the might of thy Spirit lift us, we pray thee,
to thy presence, where we may be still and know that thou
art God; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
Every Friday at Ambleside, we hold a community Chapel service that we share with teachers, students, and parents. While we cannot gather for chapel in person, we wanted to offer our families some resources to join in spirit and share chapel at home. We invite you to use this video as an anchor for your own chapel service as a family today.
Read MoreDear Ambleside Parents,
Thank you for all your gracious patience as we respond to the new situation with COVID-19.
Due to the Governor’s Executive Order yesterday, Ambleside will end instruction in the building for the remainder of the school year as we join the effort to suppress this virus. We find ourselves in the unique position of accomplishing our mission in a different way than planned, but we are moving forward with “undaunted courage.”
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