Nancy Kelly -Guidance for Your Charlotte Mason Homeschool and Life
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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Autumn Leaves by John Everett Millais 1856 * Has it happened at your house, too? Children running in with leaves, leaves and more leaves? “Look at this one! This one has three colors!” They see it, don’t they? Children should be brought up, too, to perceive that a miracle is not less a miracle because it occurs so constantly and…
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Model of the Globe Theatre Life is good. The water has gone down. He came home. I have a passport! On top of all that, I know more about soybeans than I thought possible, Norman Rockwell used cutting edge technology, Shakespeare was brilliant in his use of high and low comedy, Haydn’s Farewell Symphony is beautiful yet manipulative, Paul Laurence…
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