Nancy Kelly -Guidance for Your Charlotte Mason Homeschool and Life
So, with Porfiry away at classes all week, we were blessed with a deluge of epic proportions. Let’s just say the the freezer floats – who knew? Thank goodness Grandpa and LeMoyne were here. Here are some photos from the local newspaper. Still pumping… Apparently, I’m a blinker… Next up, passport crisis. I’m supposed to be attending the Charlotte Mason…
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“He…measures Esau with a considering eye, finds him more attractive than Jacob who yet wins higher approval; perceives that Esau is wilful but that Jacob has a strong will, and through this and many other examples, recognises that a strong will is not synonymous with ‘being good,’ nor with a determination to have your own way.” Vol. 6, p. 132…
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What are some of the purposes of education? I can think of many, but fortifying the will doesn’t immediately spring to mind. This week, I’ve been reading Mason’s rather complicated (at least for me!) chapter on the will – “The Way of the Will”, Vol. 6 Towards a Philosophy of Education. She talks about how important it is for the…
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Guess who the artist is this semester? Our homeschool co-op, Truth, Beauty, Goodness, met last Thursday, kicking off the new semester. This is our fifth semester together and it has been such a blessing that I thought I might write a few posts about it. Generally speaking, I am not the co-op type. I have participated in a…
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“Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul.” -Emily Dickinson I have this on a nature-themed print from Hobby Lobby hanging in my bathroom. The color of the eggs in the nest match the paint color of the walls. Besides, I’m fascinated by Emily Dickinson’s poetry, so it perches above the toilet. Please don’t analyze that any…
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Do you love what you do? If you are a teacher, do you model a genuine love of learning to your students? Do you participate in their studies because you want to? Cheney and Mrs. Taber learning about cattails For the most part, my answers to those questions are “yes”, and I attribute that to Charlotte Mason’s philosophy which I…
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“Who climbs the Grammar tree distinctly knows Where Noun and Verb and Participle grows.” -John Dryden I love fun grammar books. For those of you who consider “fun grammar” to be an oxymoron, you might consider A Living Grammar by Winifred Watson and Julius Nolte. Currently OOP, but a few copies still available at a reasonable price, A Living Grammar…
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“A community of earnest and high-minded people” is what J.P. Inman said about those in the Charlotte Mason College. I like to think that it describes those that gathered at Shalom Hill Farm last weekend. Not high-minded in an arrogant sense, but in the sense of seeking the best education for our children with our foundations laying firmly in theology….
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The weather was great, the prairie wasn’t windy and things pretty much ran smoothly for our Living Education Retreat last weekend. Oh, sure, there were those pesky flies, but no one seemed to mind. How could you mind with a group of eighty educators from all walks and seven states with Dr. Jack Beckman sharing his expertise on Mason’s educational…
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