Nancy Kelly -Guidance for Your Charlotte Mason Homeschool and Life
Love came down at Christmas, Love all lovely, Love Divine; Love was born at Christmas, Star and Angels gave the sign. Worship we the Godhead, Love Incarnate, Love Divine; Worship we our Jesus: But wherewith for sacred sign? Love shall be our token, Love shall be yours…
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But it takes the presence of children to help us to realise the idea of the Eternal Child. The Dayspring is with the children, and we think their thoughts and are glad in their joy; and every mother knows out of her own heart’s fulness what the Birth at Bethlehem means. – Charlotte Mason They are so joyful right now. We decorated yesterday and…
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Today our guests left. That includes a son, so we are a wee bit sad. But it is also the beginning of Advent. We celebrate the first advent of Jesus and await the next. It’s a delight to pull out Maria Trapp’s Around the Year with the Trapp Family during this time each year. In 1955, Maria tells this…
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Oh! Do not attack me with your watch. A watch is always too fast or too slow. I cannot be dictated to by a watch. – Jane Austen from Mansfield Park I am always a little uncomfortable when asked what program I use for time management purposes. I have a hard time recommending these tools because I think that people…
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I don’t know who nominated me for this award, but thank you very much! Sage Parnassus is listed in the “Best Homeschooling Methods” (#19) category . That’s rather cool, isn’t it? Since I see quite a few friends over there, it feels like an honor. (Never mind that if you received one nomination, you were entered.) I’m not sure how…
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pumpkin dh carved My 21st century literature chops stay honed by talking with friends like Dr. Donna Johnson. Last night she spoke to our PMEU group via Skype about “Youth Fiction – 2011”. She keeps up with the newer titles for her Children’s Lit class that she instructs at Dakota Wesleyan University. Donna was very positive and when she finds…
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I have no particular talent. I am merely inquisitive. – Albert Einstein When my two oldest, now graduated, entered the middle school years, I handed them a popular science textbook. Up to this point, all we had used were living books for science. They had read, narrated, sketched, labeled, observed, and recorded all sorts of things in addition to spending…
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“Harvest Home” is from one of my favorite poetry books, The Year Around. I read this to the children recently. They were delighted with “And walnuts plumping fast and faster”. Do you know what that is referring to? Harvest Home The maples flare among the spruces, The bursting foxgrape spills its juices, The gentians lift their sapphire fringes On roadways…
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Get thy tools ready, God will find the work. -Browning Young Girl Writing A Letter by Jonathan Janson She has this little obsession about the Library of Alexandria. She’s ordered a few books on it from the library and had me print out the Wikipedia article on it so she could scribble her notes all over it. Now she’s asking…
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