Nancy Kelly -Guidance for Your Charlotte Mason Homeschool and Life
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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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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