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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Book Reflection – A Guest Post
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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Guests and Living
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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Silent Narration??
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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Pebble in a Pool
Books surrounded her life. One room of the Brick House was crammed with them from floor to ceiling. Some she knew by heart, like Grimm and Anderson, Aesop and La Fontaine. She read any book she could put her hands on, racing along over the words to find out what happened next. Sometimes a character cast a three-dimensional shadow from…
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Immersion Groups
Teacher Tip “Let the lessons be short and brisk and bright. Let the teacher be fired with enthusiasm and be interested in them himself, let him be sure that each day a definite step is gained, that there is no going back, that a fresh idea is added to the old ones, and that the habits of good work are strengthened.” –…
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Welcome Spring! (And the winner is…)
apple blossom welcome wreath Have you ever been in the fields on a spring day, and heard nothing at all but your own voice and the voices of your companions, and then, perhaps, suddenly you have become silent, and you find a concert going on of which you had not heard a note? At first you hear the voices of…
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Parents as Rulers, Inspirers, and Revealers – Charlotte Mason on Thoughtful Parenting
When my adult children were young, my husband and I were involved with a group of committed parents who met to read and discuss books on parenting. It seemed like every month a new expert would publish a book about how to raise children. More than one author claimed to have the corner on God’s method, which proved perplexing when…
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A Book Giveaway for Spring!
A spring picture – Rabbit and Young Ones by Noel Hopking Sage Parnassus blog has begun its third year! I thought it might be time for a giveaway. I have been pruning my shelves, as I am wont to do about once a year. I have some book goodness that I would like to pass along to one fortuitous individual….
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