Nancy Kelly -Guidance for Your Charlotte Mason Homeschool and Life
Do you see those 200 words up in that wordle? How many of those names, places and things do you recognize? Charlotte Mason, the late British educator, published this list in order to make a point about her method of education. I’ll get back to that in a minute. Long, long ago, before my oldest two skipped off to their…
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Do you do anything special to celebrate St. Patrick’s Day? Someone here will probably get green milk at the supper table. Rumor has it that we will experience a full Irish meal by a certain son and friend – that could be fun. We will, of course, read. Last year, I told you about a favorite living book on St….
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Every year for six years in a row my, friends and I have organized the Living Education Retreat. I am so excited to present to you the flyer for our 2011 retreat! I hope you can join us for a mindful, relaxing weekend. For a more detailed description about what happens at our retreats, here is a post with details…
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Chardin – Boy Blowing Bubbles We had a fun economics lesson today! LizzieBee and I were reading one of my favorite chapters in This Country of Ours by H.E. Marshall titled “The Mississippi Bubble”. I asked her if she knew what the Mississippi Bubble was and she replied, “No. But when we’re done, can we please look up a…
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Did you jump on the bandwagon of picking a word for 2011? The point is to choose a word that will inspire you in the coming year, a word that you would like to see manifested in your life or family. It’s a good idea, I think. So, did you pick one? I finally settled on a word. It’s consider. …
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Biography might just be my personal favorite genre of books. I read my first biography in 3rd grade. It was titled Babe Didrikson – Girl Athlete and was from the Childhood of Famous Americans series. My latest read is about a favorite author, Lois Lenski (1893-1974). She wrote dozens of books, most notably her Mr. Small series and her charming…
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This week I wrote a guest post over at Educating Mother. Please take a walk over there to read my post on love – just in time for Valentine’s Day!
What I desire to set before the reader is a method of education based upon natural law.(Mason, 1955, p. 3) Last year at the CLUSA conference during a lecture on education models, the speaker mentioned that Mason’s curriculum is based on natural law. The woman next to me leaned over and whispered, “So, what exactly is natural law?” I quickly…
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“Correct me if I am wrong,” he said, “but am I right in supposing that it is a very Blusterous day outside?” – The House at Pooh Corner So right now, it’s -4 degrees F outside but feels like -24 degrees F with the windchill. I’m not kidding – I just checked the Weather Channel. Clearly, this was a good…
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