Nancy Kelly -Guidance for Your Charlotte Mason Homeschool and Life
Today I am sharing with you an article that I have found tremendously helpful over the years! It has helped me be a better teacher in my home, at church, in our co-op, and during immersion sessions. I have shared it many times when meeting with others trying to teach in a Mason paradigm. In fact, this was a very…
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I didn’t plan to be reading Richard III during this election season. But, since we’re here, it’s hard not to draw parallels and comparisons to the current political climate. Richard is a master of spin. Shakespeare presents this amazing ability of Richard’s and we can hardly believe it ourselves – how can he do this? How does he get people…
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As I was preparing for the Weekend of Living Ideas, I revisited some notes about keeping a Citizenship notebook. I know that others have used certain aspects of this here and there, and certainly I have made use of all of these notebooking activities – just not compiled into one notebook. Here, all the ideas are gathered and placed in…
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I want to recommend a book I recently discovered that is full of whimsy and charm. In fact, my dd(15) keeps taking it up to her room to read and I keep asking her to bring it back down. More on that in a second. Exciting news for Living Education Lessons! First, there is now open registration for a new…
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Occasionally, I hear from a mother who wonders if she should have her student reread a book by assigning the same book again the following school year or having him reread it during his free time. Usually, the parent feels like her student didn’t “get it” and the concern is that there may be a gap or a lack of…
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I have the pleasure of sharing a guest post from a friend, Heather Suemnicht. I first met Heather years ago at the Living Education Retreat where she immediately struck me as bright and magnanimous. As you will see, she lives in Baraboo (who wouldn’t want to live in a place called “Baraboo”?), Wisconsin with her equally wonderful husband, Tyson, and…
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What Shakespeare play has the most spit flying? Is the most controversial? Is the most popular play in Israel? * And that is how I greeted my students in our TBG Community at the beginning of last semester as we began the Merchant of Venice (MOV)! It was the second time in 10 years that I would teach it.And let’s…
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I am excited to share with you Nicole Handfield’s story about the new book, Charlotte Mason and the Great Recognition! As I mentioned earlier in this post, on July 7th Nicole presented this project at the Living Education Retreat which consisted of the book and the two high-quality prints (one 8 x 11 and one 18 x 20 with principle…
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Image used by permission from the Charlotte Mason Digital Collection, Redeemer University College, Ancaster, Ontario, Canada My Conversazione at the 2016 LER was based on an amazing document by Charlotte Mason. I have typed it in its entirety below for you to enjoy. Also, here is the the beautiful House of Education certificate (above) with which we did a modified…
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