With affection and regard, Nancy Photo and editing creds to Katie. Book selection – me.
Composition Advice from a Science Book – Language as the Clothing of Thought
Are ideas wanting in your homeschool? If so, you will find composition challenging. Composition starts with oral narration, copy work, recitation, and then dictation from the best writing available. These things continue throughout their schooling, adding new layers every year. Grammar is important, yes, but read what the beloved Fabre has to say about it in relation to writing….
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First Day of Spring is March 20th!
From The Friendly Year by Henry Van Dyke Isn’t that the truth? We were able to enter “saw our first robin” in our Book of Firsts on Tuesday, March 18th. Thankfully, Nancy
Women as Persons (Mothers’ Education Course Part II)
Vilma Reading a Book by T.F. Simon, 1912 Charlotte Mason was one of the first to recognize the importance of women and their role in educating the next generation, whether in the classroom or in the home. Here again I find she was ahead of her time and I’m so grateful. As a homeschooling parent, I find so much of…
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Commonplace Entry
Words That Sing and Soar
Tabitha went to her place at the end of the back row, next to the shelf where the schoolbooks were kept, but she did not take out the little worn brown book full of the verses the children learned by heart each day, for in most of them the words just went along at a jog trot. She took out…
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Wheeling Worlds of the Winter Firmament
Every child in such a class is open to the wonders that science reveals, is interested in the wheeling worlds of the winter firmament. -Charlotte Mason, Vol. 6, p. 50. On the way to our TBG Community at 8:00 a.m. last Friday, we pulled off the country road to wonder at some majestic eagles sitting in the trees. We didn’t…
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Comprehension Questions? (Mothers’ Education Course Part 1)
Many mothers feel that they are the better in body and mind for the mental activity that nothing but definite study affords. We are making arrangements for a course of study on education – a three years’ course – with monthly questions. – Charlotte Mason Image used by permission from the Charlotte Mason Digital Collection, Redeemer…
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Winter Weather
This is some of what I’m reading right now. DH heard the call of a cardinal last week, a subtle sign of the coming spring. We still have a long way to go, but the cardinal lets us know that the days are slowly lengthening around here. Have you ever thought of winter as a time when God might whisper…
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