Nancy Kelly -Guidance for Your Charlotte Mason Homeschool and Life
lambs in Ambleside last spring Let Blake’s ‘Songs of Innocence’ represent their standard in poetry. – Charlotte Mason Blake’s colored engraving of The Lamb One of the first pieces of poetry my oldest son memorized was The Lamb by William Blake from Songs of Innocence. Few things are sweeter than listening to a six-year-old recite this. (Why didn’t I…
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There are several ways by which the knowledge of God first comes to us; we may be struck by the words, acts, and looks of those who know––a very convincing lesson. A little plant of moss, the bareness of a tree in winter, may, as we have seen, awake us to the knowledge; or, dealings of strange intimacy with our…
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I have been thinking about this little phrase, shared a few years ago as a quick answer to a question by Christy. In this guest post over at Afterthoughts, she writes about it as it relates to scheduling in the homeschool, which is what I was referring to. But I wanted to address it as it relates to another part…
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Speaking of copywork, this was read to my daughter this year. It wasn’t planned (as it rarely should be) to inspire her copywork, but how could it not? Propped up in front of George, one winter day, between a pewter inkwell and a jar of sand for blotting was a faded, green book. George was preparing to copy it. He…
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The friends thou hast, and their adoption tried, Grapple them to thy soul with hooks of steel.- Polonius, from Hamlet, Act 1.3 Great advice, despite coming from Polonius. Last semester we read Hamlet by William Shakespeare. Charlotte Mason quotes from Hamlet quite often, including the lines above. She prefaces the quote by telling us that “most of us carry…
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“The earliest practice in writing proper for children of seven or eight should be, not letter writing or dictation, but transcription, slow and beautiful work…” – Mason, Vol. 1, p. 238 Transcription is copywork. Often it is just something we do quickly and check off our list. But it shouldn’t be. …
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“Wise men are feeling strongly that prudence requires of us, … to live simple lives, to avoid excesses, even if they come in the way of athletic or intellectual toils, and to eschew possessions more than are necessary for fit and simple living. Perhaps it is lawful for us to allow ourselves, in our furniture and implements, beauty of form…
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People are naturally divided into those who read and think and those who do not read or think; and the business of schools is to see that all their scholars shall belong to the former class; it is worth while to remember that thinking is inseparable from reading which is concerned with the content of a passage and not merely…
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I salute you! There is nothing I can give you which you have not; but there is much, that, while I cannot give, you can take. No heaven can come to us unless our hearts find rest in it today. Take Heaven! No peace lies in the future which is not hidden in this present instant. Take Peace! The gloom…
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