Nancy Kelly -Guidance for Your Charlotte Mason Homeschool and Life
This year, Advent begins on November 28th. I want to recommend this book to you, along with sharing all my Advent and Christmas book posts. (And there are some gems in those posts – please read and share these with others you think might be interested!) There’s still time to gather what you need to be prepared to wait for…
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I would like to share with you a favorite living book! A while back I picked up this book at a library sale because the title rang a bell. Had I seen this on a book list somewhere? I couldn’t remember, but I’m glad I paid the .50 for it. It was a splendid read-aloud for my children. Here’s what…
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REGISTER HERE! Why don’t you join me in my unique and intimate LEL class that will begin in just a few weeks? A new Season 4 – True Self-Education highlights and works through Charlotte Mason’s book, Ourselves, Book 1 and is now open for registration. It’s the perfect time to meet as everyone is beginning a fresh school year and…
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We have had the BEST panels at the Living Education Retreat! This year was no exception. Eight young adults who were educated with the Charlotte Mason method (most of them all 12 years) shared with everyone on Friday of the LER. It was rather fascinating to hear them talk about their school education, mostly with great fondness, and to answer…
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At the 2021 Living Education Retreat, I delivered the opening conversazione on the theme “Meditation” which set the tone for the retreat. Today, I would like to share the audio of that presentation. Charlotte Mason put a heavy emphasis on meditation for the parent and the child. This talk explores what she meant by meditation and looks deeply at this…
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So after about 10 years, my email subscription service (Feedburner) will no longer send email notices to my thousands of subscribers when I update my blog. If you are interested in receiving or continuing to receive a little notice in your inbox when I post something fresh, you need to sign up with my new service, Jetpack. I’ve made it…
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As you guide your children through their school days implementing the Charlotte Mason method, you will notice how wide and generous the curriculum is! Her program is not just the three Rs, not only vocational work, not the latest trend in education, and certainly not test preparation. No, her philosophy of education encourages us to establish the vast science of…
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Books dealing with science as with history, say, should be of a literary character, and we should probably be more scientific as a people if we scrapped all the text-books which swell publishers’ lists and nearly all the chalk expended so freely on our blackboards. Charlotte Mason, Towards a Philosophy of Eduction (Vol. 6) p. 218 In our Charlotte Mason…
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“It’s like a sermon, counseling, and teaching all in one…so great!!”-Rachelle D. Are you a leader of any sort in the Charlotte Mason world of education? If so, you might be interested in my upcoming class, Grace for Grace, Season 6, Living Education Lessons. We will take a deep dive into the book of John (chapters 1-7) and CM’s Scale…
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