Nancy Kelly -Guidance for Your Charlotte Mason Homeschool and Life
Jeannette Tulis shares her thoughts on the 2017 LER and the audio of her plenary! I have wanted to attend a Living Education Retreat ever since Nancy Kelly and Karla Taber started the lovely tradition 12 years ago. It usually falls on the same weekend as our big home education expo here in Chattanooga, for which I am one of…
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Sandro Botticelli’s Fortitude Conversazione is an Italian word. It is defined as a scholarly or formal gathering where something related to literature or the arts is discussed. The PNEU held these talks in order to drum up interest in the organization, often times with Miss Mason as the speaker. Each LER begins with a conversazione where I try to share…
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Recently, my friend AnnMarie told me an interesting, humorous, and instructive story. She and her husband decided it was high time that they taught their young children about hard work. As he had been raised on a farm, he came to the conclusion that taking care of animals was how he learned how to work hard. While they…
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It’s always fun to find an influential book list in my stacks of papers! Here is a wonderful list by none other than Susan Schaeffer Macaulay that picked I picked up at a L’Abri conference and have consulted many times over the years. The list was printed in another great resource for mature teens and up, Critique by Ransom Fellowship….
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Mother and Child by Marianne Stokes, 1899 I am excited to share this post with you! This essay is included in the wonderful book Charlotte Mason and The Great Recognition, edited by Nicole Handfield. You can read about that book here. To order a copy, please contact Nicole at handfieldshalom@gmail.com. In the spring of 2014 I found myself in Ambleside,…
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Yesterday, my 15-year-old daughter and her friends wanted to, needed to, just get outside in the slightly warmer weather! They decided to go to Kilen Woods State Park which is about 15 minutes from our home. There is a Parents’ Review (Vol. 27) article titled “A Walk in March” by Florence Haines and I found it to be so…
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There are a few seats left in my new class* offering! If you are the sort that prefers to quietly nourish your heart and mind, I think you will like these sessions. If you are wondering what the classes are like, just click on the picture and it will take you to the LEL page which explains the format…
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In a previous post, Conversations With Maps, I outline how we do Geography based on Mason’s advice and principles. There are many aspects to Geography study such as humanistic (descriptive) and scientific (involving science and math). Mason wanted BOTH to be part of Geography. So, being drawn to a country by reading something literary and learning to care for the…
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The Veteran in a New Field by Ted Kooser A lone man scything wheat His back is turned to us, his white shirt the brightest thing in the painting. Old trousers, leather army suspenders. Before him the red wheat bends, the sky is cloudless, smokeless, and blue. Where he has passed, the hot stalks spread in streaks, like a shell…
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