I have always wanted to keep track of all the books I read over the course of a year. I only wish I started this, oh, about 40 years ago. This is a record of the books I read mainly at night when I retired for the day. It does not include the books I read for our school…
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The Dayspring is With the Children
Madonna and Child by Raphael 1505 “Every mother knows out of her own heart’s fulness what the Birth at Bethlehem means.” – Charlotte Mason So our Sunday, this Sunday before Christmas, was full of children. Since my baby is now nine years old, it sure is special to have friends’ little ones around – especially at Christmas time. We started…
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A Christmas Prayer
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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On Christmas Traditions and Books
“There is something about saying, ‘We always do this,’ which helps keep the years together. Time is such an elusive thing that if we keep on meaning to do something interesting, but never do it, year would follow year with no special thoughtfulness being expressed in making gifts, surprises, charming table settings, and familiar favorite food. Tradition is a good gift…
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Excretion of the Mind
I hope you had a great Thanksgiving. This scene is by Tasha Tudor from Rosemary for Remembrance. Excretion of the mind…anyone have a guess as to what Mason is referring to with that phrase? We came across it at our PMEU meeting where we are finishing up the usually-neglected Volume 5 study. It should be read more as it has…
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A Sharing of the Effort to Know
“Teaching is not a technique exercised by the skilled on behalf of the unskilled.” – E. Chomondley Last Saturday I spoke to a group of homeschoolers in Roanoke, VA via Skype about the Charlotte Mason method and our homeschool. Before I began, this group of educators – though strangers to me – sang “Happy Birthday to You”. Only the…
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A Book Giveaway for Fall!
Sketch of our poet this term, Eleanor Farjeon, by Edward Ardizonne from The Little Bookroom BOOKS by Eleanor Farjeon What worlds of wonder are our books! As one opens them and looks, New ideas and people rise In our fancies and our eyes. The room we sit in melts away, And we find ourselves at play With some one who…
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Shakespeare Resources
coolest game that we found at a library book sale about 15 years ago I spent the morning with our Charlotte Mason high school group, The Hive.So exciting to see them slowly come alive and own their learning as much of this method is new to many of the students. Connections are being made by the students between all the…
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Borrowed Views: An Addendum
Dappled autumn light on our porch and the perfect green table my girls found by the side of the road! What interesting and thoughtful comments many of you left on the previous post, “Borrowed Views – Charlotte Mason on Critical Thinking”. Miss Mason put much confidence in the student’s mind and its abilities to figure things out – much more…
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