Sometimes, after reading so much goodness out of Charlotte Mason’s 6 volumes, I just want to write about the beauty…
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Wheeling Worlds of the Winter Firmament
Every child in such a class is open to the wonders that science reveals, is interested in the wheeling worlds…
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Cozy Winter Reading List from Sioux Falls, SD
I read this from a favorite poetry anthology The Year Around – Poems for Children by Hazeltine and Smith I…
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Our Schedule, Our Atmosphere
Mason on atmosphere: “It is thrown off, as it were, from persons and things, stirred by events, sweetened by love,…
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Love Affairs in Education or The Thing is the Thing
midnight at the LER – see the big dipper? (Matthew Baerbock – photo) Are you busy planning your school year?…
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Brighty!
Probably the easiest way to involve my husband in our homeschool over the years has been to provide him with…
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A Reflection from the Hive*
“You cannot learn to love art, unless you first love what art mirrors.” – John Ruskin The paintings of…
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Imagination – Cultivate Your Capacities for Amazement
Cultivate your capacities for amazement – you won’t worship without it. There are a lot of boring worship services in…
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The Hive
Let us try, however imperfectly, to make education a science of relationships––in other words, try in one subject or another…
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Immersion Groups
Teacher Tip “Let the lessons be short and brisk and bright. Let the teacher be fired with enthusiasm and be…
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Intellectual Culture – Poetry
A man should hear a little music, read a little poetry, and see a fine picture every day of his…
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Dear Stephanie – A Word About Attention
paying close attention Nancy, I have a question for you and your readers. How would you go about teaching older…
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