Nancy Kelly -Guidance for Your Charlotte Mason Homeschool and Life
I read this from a favorite poetry anthology The Year Around – Poems for Children by Hazeltine and Smith I spent last Saturday with an intelligent and thoughtful group of adults in Sioux Falls, SD. Melissa and Shannon have been leading a book discussion through Charlotte Mason’s 6-volume series as well as putting her principles into action through a community…
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But every man is tempted, when he is drawn away of his own lust, and enticed. Then when lust hath conceived, it bringeth forth sin: and sin, when it is finished, bringeth forth death. James 1:14-15 (KJV) I just had a sad thought. If my dd16 continues in our TBG Community until she graduates, I will only have the privilege…
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Maid with the Yellow Hair by Leighton c. 1895 My mom tells a story of when I was hospitalized at age 9 with spinal meningitis. She says that when the nurse leaned over and asked what I wanted to have – and I could have anything – I replied, “My books, please.” I like that story, but I’m not sure…
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Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year from my family to yours!
the children’s tree in the upstairs bay window Miss Mason looked on education as something between the child’s soul and God. Modern education tends to look on it as something between the child’s brain and the examination board…it is part of the whole modern policy of quick returns, of the substitution of immediate and temporary values for ultimate and absolute…
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I know many of you are looking for some book recommendations for Christmas. Since Advent begins on December 1st, I thought I would share some great titles for the season. First is The Handel’s Messiah Family Advent Reader by Payne and Lenzo. Perfect for us as Handel is our composer this term and we have been listening to Messiah. Our…
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from Elsa Beskow’s Around the Year “We must make it our purpose to bring Beauty to places where it is not.” – Charlotte Mason (4.55) Since our book discussion group talked about this section last week, this thought has been on my mind. How does this apply to me in my home? Ms. Mason talks in this short but rich…
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“The loving eye and patient hand, shall work with joy and bless the land. “ Eppie – the newest family member “The gold had kept his thoughts in an ever-repeated circle, leading to nothing beyond itself; but Eppie was an object compacted of changes and hopes that forced his thoughts onward, and carried them far away from their old eager…
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Geography. Now here is a subject that Mason has completely brought to life for our family. Mason states that within the study of Geography “the main and perhaps most important aspect is furnishing the mind with ideas and the imagination with pictures.” (Vol. 1, p. 272) Probably the first step is simply getting in the habit of always looking at…
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