Nancy Kelly -Guidance for Your Charlotte Mason Homeschool and Life
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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“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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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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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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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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handmade commonplace book – a precious gift from Elizabeth Who could live if every mouthful of bodily food were held up on a fork for critical examination before it be eaten? – Charlotte Mason, 5.295 How do you teach critical thinking, analysis, or literary criticism? I had the same question when we began homeschooling. All those workbooks, dvds, and instruction…
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From The Country Diary of an Edwardian Lady For those looking for inspiration of the highest level in the realm of nature notebooks, Edith Holden (1871-1920) has been the standard for so many of us. Homeschooled by her mother during her early years, she became an artist and teacher. She wrote her Nature Notes as a model nature journal for her students…
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A few months back I picked up this book at a library sale because the title rang a bell. Had I seen this on a book list somewhere? I couldn’t remember, but I’m glad I paid the .50 for it. It was a splendid read-aloud for my children. Picturesque setting of A Family of Foxes – a peninsula on the…
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Mr. Hughes wrote many Citizenship books for U.S. students, but I wouldn’t call them “living”. Constitution Day, aka Citizenship Day, is celebrated on September 17th which is the day in 1787 that the U.S. Constitution was signed. Honestly, I didn’t know there was a Constitution Day before I began teaching citizenship to teens at our CM high school group, The…
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