Nancy Kelly -Guidance for Your Charlotte Mason Homeschool and Life
Cultivate your capacities for amazement – you won’t worship without it. There are a lot of boring worship services in the world filled with people who have killed their capacities for amazement by watching tv hour after hour after hour so that the only thing that excites them is the imbecility of sitcoms and they have zero capacity to be…
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Let us try, however imperfectly, to make education a science of relationships––in other words, try in one subject or another to let the children work upon living ideas. In this field small efforts are honoured with great rewards, and we perceive that the education we are giving exceeds all that we intended or imagined. – Charlotte Mason, 3.163 It has been…
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A.M. Yellow flames flutter about the feeder: A Pentecost of finches. -Robert Siegel I think I have a new favorite collective noun – Pentecost of finches. Into my commonplace it goes! The picture shows eggs laid by a new couple that just moved back into our fern on the porch. They are house finches and return every year to choose…
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If there is anyone in the world whom we should not have to deceive, who is most likely to know us for what we are and love us anyway, who will never prefer complexity of thought and expression to simplicity and directness of feeling, who is so interested in us that we do not have to make our letters “interesting” and consequently, perhaps, false…
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sweet find from local antique store We had our final PMEU meeting of the school year, despite severe thunderstorms. I spoke on the high school years for those wishing to implement or continue on with the living methods of Charlotte Mason. We talked about progress and our culture’s obsession with doing, doing, doing for grades or admissions or whatever. Busyness…
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detail on Cheney’s dress for Sunday Recently, it was our family’s turn to teach Family Sunday School. We were to lead a picture study of Rembrandt’s Raising of the Cross. While some of the families would be familiar with picture study, for many this would be their first encounter. I was looking forward to it! Our class had previously finished…
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homemade granola…yum! ornamental crabapple in full bloom Remember when I told you about Donna and our discussions about contemporary Young Adult Fiction? After our meeting, I asked her to please write a blog post when she came across any new, worthy books so that I could spread the word. So enjoy this guest post by my fellow book-loving friend,…
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I was reminded of another difference between Charlotte Mason and another popular teaching method. I was chatting with a group of friends about our community, Truth, Beauty, Goodness – a co-op of sorts, but one modeled on the Mason model as found in her works. I was telling them that when people come to observe our group (which we love!),…
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In our yard this a.m. “The mind can know nothing save what it can produce in the form of an answer to a question put to the mind by itself.” – old axiom quoted by Charlotte Mason I feel like I’ve been on a bit of a wild goose chase, trying to track this one down. I’d like to share…
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