Nancy Kelly -Guidance for Your Charlotte Mason Homeschool and Life
motto badge – each attendee received one The bells from the courthouse chimed out the national anthem as I sat on the porch early this morning. I was sitting in the speckled morning sun, thinking about this past weekend at the Living Education Retreat. The unity of the community gathered there was a slice of heaven. I had shared with…
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clematis in the morning I am slowly preparing my heart and mind for next week’s Living Education Retreat. This brings joy. There has been much of that around here lately – luminous newlyweds, healthy relatives, blooming things. Here is a poem for summer that I love and I hope you take the time to savor it. EPHEMERA by Barbara Crooker…
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I am reading a book that Alison recently shared with me. If you are interested in the Armitt and Mason’s relationship to the museum or who her peers were and how they worked together, you will like this book, too. Here is an interesting tidbit about Madam Shimoda from Japan – someone I had heard about but never understood what…
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We should never have lost them. They were sitting right in front of us all this time. That’s how I look at Mason’s method of education. She based her philosophy on natural law and unswerving faith. It’s how children learn and is proven in study after study. This past weekend at Ferrum College in the Blue Ridge Mountains the…
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vintage bee skep salt and pepper shakers with honey jar – recent package from my mom! Cultivating our children’s imagination is one of the most important jobs of the teacher and I know Charlotte Mason would agree. She said, “Imagination is, like faith, the evidence of things not seen.” (Imagination in Childhood, Parents’ Review, Vol. 27.3.1916) She also said…
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Here is another bookish article by my bookish friend . I am terrifically busy preparing for camping trips, weddings, and speaking engagements and I haven’t had much time to write. So for now, enjoy the piece by Jeannette where she expands on this post from my blog. Little Known Book Treasures When I started to write this, I thought I…
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Probably the easiest way to involve my husband in our homeschool over the years has been to provide him with a living book to read aloud to the kids. If I choose a great title, everyone enjoys and shares in the experience. He doesn’t need any prep time, just drop on the couch and pick up where they left off….
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my commonplace book (or rather, one of them!) A thoughtful quote from Rumer Godden to add to my definition of a living book: “Rumer always deplored the idea that books for children, even very young ones, should be relentlessly cheerful – ‘perhaps the reason why these books are so lifeless is that living things have shadows’.” – Anne Chisolm in Rumer Godden: A Storyteller’s Life p….
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It would be difficult to overrate this habit of seeing and storing as a means of after-solace and refreshment. The busiest of us have holidays when we slip our necks out of the yoke and come face to face with Nature, to be healed and blessed by “The breathing balm, The silence and the calm…
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