Esbjorn Doing His Homework by Carl Larsson 1912 “I do not think I should ask a child to imitate a…
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Spelling Other Than By Dictation
I read this article in the Charlotte Mason Digital Collection and found it thought-provoking. Well, thought-provoking for those of us…
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Laura’s First Composition
Funky ornament found in one of Charlotte Mason’s boxes at the Armitt in Ambleside It is always interesting to come…
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George Washington’s Slow and Beautiful Work
Speaking of copywork, this was read to my daughter this year. It wasn’t planned (as it rarely should be) to…
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Slow and Beautiful Work
“The earliest practice in writing proper for children of seven or eight should be, not letter writing or dictation, but…
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Composition Advice from a Science Book – Language as the Clothing of Thought
Are ideas wanting in your homeschool? If so, you will find composition challenging. Composition starts with oral narration, copy…
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Ignorance is Not Innocence
pumpkin dh carved My 21st century literature chops stay honed by talking with friends like Dr. Donna Johnson. Last night…
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Tools for Writing
Get thy tools ready, God will find the work. -Browning Young Girl Writing A Letter by Jonathan Janson She has…
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Singing is to the Song Thrush as Narration is to the Child
Now this art of telling back is Education and is very enriching. (Mason, 1925/1989, p. 292) My frazzled friend wrote…
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Narrating Our Way Through Julius Caesar
Julius Caesar Narration Ideas Document “Liberty! Freedom! Tyranny is dead!” Our Charlotte Mason co-op, Truth, Beauty, Goodness performed Julius Caesar…
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Bent Leather, Part 2
Sioux Falls wild turkeys in Pipestone the prairie So many of you responded to my last post (Bent Leather, Part…
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Bent Leather, Part 1
Do you see those 200 words up in that wordle? How many of those names, places and things do you…
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