Nancy Kelly -Guidance for Your Charlotte Mason Homeschool and Life
” Do not keep the children day after day repeating what they already know; give them something new to call forth new interest and wonder.” -R. Durning On a rainy day last week, the children and I visited the Buller farm to learn all about beekeeping. Mr. Buller is a second generation beekeeper and works 180 hives. It was a…
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On a gentle hill nestled on the Minnesota prairie, a group of like-minded home educators gathers annually to discuss the nature and direction of their children’s education. They focus on a philosophy built on a clear view of God, the importance of relationships, and the practical realities of teaching and learning. These educators are participating in the the Living Education…
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One of the things that is so refreshing about Charlotte Mason’s writings is her biblical literacy. If she could write a six-volume poetic work of the Gospels, The Savior of the World, she must have spent much of her life meditating on them. She uses so many allusions and phrases from the Scriptures in her six-volume Original Homeschooling Series that…
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Today is the birthday of William Shakespeare (1564). In his honor, I am posting photos from our Truth, Beauty, Goodness Co-op’s amateur production of The Winter’s Tale. It was great fun and the children did an amazing job memorizing their lines. Enjoy! THE CAST PRINCE FLORIZEL AND PERDITA STATUE OF HERMIONE (LIZZIEBEE) PAULINA (MARIT) BRINGS THE STATUE TO LIFE! POST…
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“We do not love people because they are beautiful, but they seem beautiful to us because we love them.” – an old Russian proverb Since Mother’s Day is coming up, I wanted to share with you one of our favorite books about mothers. My Mother is the Most Beautiful Woman in the World will warm the heart of anyone who reads…
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Little Jack tells me that he has been participating in some new collegiate hi-jinks. This one is called “surprise trust falls.” You know about trust falls, the team-building exercise where one person stands in the middle of a circle of colleagues or up on a platform and then falls, depending on the others to catch him and prevent his head…
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I hate to admit it, but being a city girl who never met a farmer until she went to college, I had to look up the idiom “run to seed” or “gone to seed”. I mean, I knew what it meant in general, but I just wanted to get my facts straight. I wanted to understand this quote from Towards…
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I stole this book from my mother’s bookshelf years ago. As a young girl, I remember seeing it on our coffee table during the early ’70s. About 10 years ago when I was back home for a visit, I slipped it into my suitcase. The author of New Every Morning is Dr. Philip E. Howard Jr. He wrote these meditations…
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Once a month we meet for our Charlotte Mason Book Discussion Group. I’d call it a support group, but that makes it sound like we have a problem. Hmmmm. Anyway, almost every time we meet, someone mentions that Mason’s philosophy differs from their teacher training. Sometimes the paradigm is the complete opposite of how we were taught to teach children….
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