Nancy Kelly -Guidance for Your Charlotte Mason Homeschool and Life
This year for Advent I want to recommend a book specifically for you, mother. Because you understand that a bit of quiet time can bring such peace in your home, which in turn helps us make space for God in our lives, I think you will enjoy this recommendation. The book is called Wounded in Spirit – Advent Art and…
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Announcing a new opportunity to grow in the Charlotte Mason method! My group mentoring experience, Living Education Lessons, will begin two new classes, Season 1/Heart-service to God and Season 4/True Self-education on January 14th, 2019. These classes are a small, intimate, and safe place to discover and ask to your heart’s content anything and everything CM with a mom who…
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This year in TBG, I wanted to encourage the students to explore the treasures in their local museums. Here in southwest Minnesota, they are usually quite small affairs but often staffed with knowledgeable volunteers and workers who may have lived through much of what is displayed. I have explained how we now go about our BOC journals in the post,…
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The colors in Minnesota are stunning right now! The tumbling of the leaves through the air is always a magical sight. Tomorrow we are planning a field trip to the Pipestone National Monument and since geology is my latest interest, I look forward to experiencing it with new eyes that the Charlotte Mason method continues to awaken in me. COMMON…
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I hope you have enjoyed Maria’s posts on recitation in a Charlotte Mason education – That They Might Delight in Knowing and Ruminating on Recitation. In our conversations on the topic, I told her about how important I thought recitation is and about how many times I have heard my grown children pull out a line or two from things…
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My friend, Maria Bell, delights in researching the subject of recitation as practiced in a Charlotte Mason education. In the following post she addresses what the teacher should be aware of and understand so that the living subject of recitation will come alive in schooll! Enjoy the delightful letter from Charlotte to the students that begins this post and watch…
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Some mornings I take off jogging over to Island Park where you enter under a gateway that states, “Where Friends Meet”. Alas, no friends are meeting there at 6:00 a.m. The park is bordered by the Des Moines River. A few years ago, a dam was removed and replaced with 2 sets of riffles, rocks that slow the shallow water…
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Truly, except the Lord build the house, they labour but in vain that build it. When the Lord builds, they labour also—but, not in vain. Where is the promise for the edifying of the sober and righteous and godly Christian character, except as we shall labour, laying brick upon brick? We may well believe that, in this manner, the Lord…
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This Guest Post audio is by my friend, Mary Beuving. She has attended the past 4 Living Education Retreats and lives on the west coast, currently Oregon. (But she didn’t receive the longest-pilgrimage-to-the-LER award – that went to someone from China!) Mary is frank, humble, and funny in this talk about trusting the methods of Charlotte Mason in her own…
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