Nancy Kelly -Guidance for Your Charlotte Mason Homeschool and Life
It is a capital plan for the children to keep a calendar––the first oak-leaf, the first tadpole, the first cowslip, the first catkin, the first ripe blackberries, where seen, and when. The next year they will know when and where to look out for their favourites, and will, every year, be in a condition to add new observations. Think of…
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The Holy Family Doni Tondo by Michelangelo 1506 For Picture Study this term, we are looking at the works of Michelangelo. This is one of the subjects that we do in our TBG Community, and Heidi is our picture study maven. She does an amazing job and I wish you could visit when she is teaching. I don’t think she…
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Prior to homeschooling my progenies, my only experience with John Bunyan’s classic, Pilgrim’s Progress, was a tedious youth group experience in which we were to read the story and fill out workbook pages. We endured this because, well, we wanted to get to the broomball game. Sad, isn’t it? It certainly didn’t bring the following objective about – Any child…
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Here is part of the sisters’ nature table which greets visitors at the side door. So, my friend from New Zealand, Rachael, tagged me for this homeschool meme. “Meme” is an interesting word that I rarely hear in everyday conversation. Here is a slideshow and an article for further reading, if you are so inclined. Ten Unforgettable Web Memes (How…
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Now this art of telling back is Education and is very enriching. (Mason, 1925/1989, p. 292) My frazzled friend wrote to me with the following query, “With all the different levels and subjects of my children, are my days going to consist only of narration?” So I wrote back, “Well, to a great extent, yes! That is, if you want…
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We are reading the nostalgic, descriptive poetry of the Quaker poet John Greenleaf Whittier this term. Greenleaf (which is what he went by) was raised on a simple Massachusetts farm and often reminisced in his poetry about farm life. I am taken by his poem, “Telling the Bees”, and am curious as to whether any of you are familiar with…
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Our Charlotte Mason community – Truth, Beauty, Goodness – had its first meeting of the new school year. Notice I said “community” and not “co-op”. That’s because the term “co-op” generally connotates a bunch of images that I don’t want associated with our group. Things like harried children, joyless moms, isolated subjects, segregated children, various methods and the like. Instead,…
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Cheney running on the prairie at Blue Mounds State park This post is peppered with pictures from some travels around SW MN a few weeks ago. In that article that I mentioned in my last post, there’s Miss Mason talking directly to the homeschool mother. Time to listen! She tells us what she thinks should be the rule of every…
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hydrangeas and phlox *This post reflects some of the highlights of an encouragement talk that I just gave to a lovely Charlotte Mason support group in Cincinnati, Ohio via Skype. Time for fall planning! Time to put together the school schedule! New books, new routines, and hopefully no new grooves. Let me explain. By grooves, I mean a stagnant, settled…
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