Nancy Kelly -Guidance for Your Charlotte Mason Homeschool and Life
“The Canticle of the Bees” and other charming Christmas poems can be found in this favorite book of ours. Ms. McGinley has taken fifteen medieval legends of the first Christmas and turned them into poems. “The original tales grew up in that era when wonders and miracles seemed very near at hand – when it seemed quite natural that all…
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A key to education, according to Charlotte Mason, can be found in a poem by Percy Bysshe Shelley where he speaks of “understanding that grows bright gazing on many truths.” (Vol. 6, p. 157) This is true for the student of any age. It’s also one of the reasons our co-op continues to flourish. We even have two moms who…
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With the Thanksgiving holiday fast approaching, I thought I would write a little about being thankful. There are lots of blogs out there with free lesson plans, worksheets, historical information and the like – and for those I am thankful. But this post will be about the state of being thankful, which is a place we should find ourselves all…
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When Mistress Satterthwaite heard that their old friend Christopher Ludwig was ill, and that he and his wife needed her, she made plans to go to them at once, good woman that she was. At first she thought she would take Baby Betsy with her. But then she decided against it, for fear her two-year-old daughter would disturb the sick…
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I’ll be honest, I was not super-excited about teaching The Comedy of Errors to the kids. (You should have heard Marit, my 13 year-old, gasp with disbelief when I read her that line!) I chose this play because we could later attend a performance at the Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis – always a fitting conclusion after reading a play. …
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You know what a magnificent spectacle the heavens have offered these last few frosty nights. Well, one of our youngsters has, I think, some turn for astronomy. “Look, father, what a great star! It’s big enough to make the night light without the moon. It isn’t always there; what’s its name, and where does it go?” The…
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Our house and carriage house when it was first built 125 years ago. As recently as fourteen years ago when my last child was born, a passerby stopped and suggested to my husband that he might consider wielding a machete to chop down the weeds taking over our front porch (which had no railing). Soon after that, a sweet lady…
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During picture study yesterday, we looked at Norman Rockwell’s Four Freedoms (1943). Rockwell was inspired by Roosevelt’s Four Freedoms speech (1941). He wanted to help with the war effort, but was too old to enlist, so he decided to paint. Problem was, the government wasn’t interested in his paintings. Yet. Rockwell’s old friend, The Saturday Evening Post happily picked up…
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Despite travel delays and wrong terminals, I made it to Canada! I had the privilege of sitting next to a retired Classics professor from the University of California – Berkeley. When he found out we read Plutarch in our school, he happily regaled me with some fascinating stories of his visits to Greece on archeology digs and his knowledge of…
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