Nancy Kelly -Guidance for Your Charlotte Mason Homeschool and Life
Mother Culture and Education Opportunity Are you full of hope for this new school year? Fall is definitely my favorite new beginning! I invite you to meet with me in the comfort of your own home as I will be leading a Living Education Lessons Season 4 class. There will be lots of discussion, some teaching, encouragement, and the opportunity…
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You keep him in perfect peace whose mind is stayed on you, because he trusts in you. Isaiah 25:3 I was revisiting this piece of advice that I shared with a sweet mother over a decade ago to see if it still holds true for today’s families. I think that it does and much of what I share in my…
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If in a few schools the children have difficulty in narrating Plutarch’s Lives, it will almost certainly be found that the teacher (as one excellent teacher frankly confesses) does not like the book: he may or may not understand why Plutarch wrote it, why Miss Mason with her wonderful insight adopted it as an inspiration to Citizenship, or indeed why…
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Who wouldn’t want a curated book list from Lois Lenski, Susan Schaeffer Macaulay, or Jerram Barrs? Here at Sage Parnassus, I’ve amassed a few book lists over the years. I thought you might appreciate having them all in one post for easy access. There are some hidden gems here that I know your family will adore just as my family…
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Some mornings I take a walk across town to Island Park where you enter under a stone gateway that has the title, “Where Friends Meet.” Alas, no friends are meeting there at 6:00 a.m.! The park is bordered by the Des Moines River, a tributary of the Mississippi River. A few years ago, a dam was removed and replaced with…
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See that picture of my Riverside Shakespeare? I read it in college at the University of Minnesota many years ago. I didn’t enjoy it and plowed through it for the grade. Almost entire plays have pink highlighter throughout as I grappled with each play at breakneck speed. Thank goodness Charlotte Mason entered my life a few years later! Thanks to…
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If there’s one thing that strikes me when I read what the Parents Union School (PUS – Charlotte Mason’s schools for children) teachers thought about teaching Shakespeare, it would be the joy with which the plays were approached and appreciated by both teachers and students. This article will focus on the “how” of teaching Shakespeare in a living education and…
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Charlotte Mason Inspiration and Community As the school year wraps up for many of us, let’s exercise our wills and choose to finish well. Let us not grow weary in doing good. Perhaps this little community is just the encouragement and help you need! LEL is an opportunity to allow other women to come alongside you in your efforts toward…
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Here is a post written by one of my sons after his freshman year in college. What does a Charlotte Mason graduate raised on living books do when he gets to college and has to read all those fact-filled textbooks? I hope you find Jack’s take on it encouraging! When he wrote this, he was studying English at the University…
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