Nancy Kelly -Guidance for Your Charlotte Mason Homeschool and Life
“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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We shared a lesson on the poet Eleanor Farjeon at our Awakening session yesterday. We finished the gathering by joining together and singing her hymn, People Look East, a wonderful Advent song. The slides at the beginning of this post were edited by my dd, Katie. She also took the pics from the Awakening session yesterday. Love that girl.
Idealized painting by Jennie Augusta Brownscombe, The First Thanksgiving at Plymouth, 1914 A kindness is like a flower that has bloomed upon you unawares, and to be on the watch for such flowers adds very much to our joy in other people, as well as to the happy sense of being loved and cared for. – Charlotte Mason, Vol. 4…
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For us,… whatever ’s undergone, Thou knowest, willest what is done. Grief may be joy misunderstood: Only the Good discerns the good. I trust Thee while my days go on. – from “De Profundis” by Elizabeth Barrett Browning Elizabeth Barrett Browning 1806-1881 A friend sent a request a while ago. Could I please address schooling using Mason’s methods when life…
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First, just this quote from George MacDonald: To become able to make something is, I think, necessary to thorough development. I would rather have a son of mine a carpenter, a watchmaker, a woodcarver, a shoemaker, a jeweler, a blacksmith, a bookbinder, than I would have him earn his bread as a clerk in a counting house. Not merely is…
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The Sower, 1850 – Millet We began a new semester of our Charlotte Mason community, Truth, Beauty, Goodness. You can see our schedule and a few new pics on the TBG page. So many good things! I hope to eventually share those things with you. Meanwhile, here are some thoughts on Charlotte Mason’s beloved Jean-Francois Millet. Our first print to…
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