handmade commonplace book – a precious gift from Elizabeth Who could live if every mouthful of bodily food were held…
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Silent Narration??
In our yard this a.m. “The mind can know nothing save what it can produce in the form of an…
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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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Science Narration Journals
I have no particular talent. I am merely inquisitive. – Albert Einstein When my two oldest, now graduated, entered the…
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Pilgrim’s Progress
Prior to homeschooling my progenies, my only experience with John Bunyan’s classic, Pilgrim’s Progress, was a tedious youth group experience…
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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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Forest for the Trees
The fact that oral language is foundational to all learning was emphasized at our book discussion group a few nights…
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Scintillations From Their Own Genius
As I sat down to plan out some details of our next semester in the new year, I read some…
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“Ulysses S. Grant as Desdemona” or “Adventures in Speech Class”
“A speech is poetry: cadence, rhythm, imagery, sweep! A speech reminds us that words, like children, have the power to…
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Firsts
First smile. First word. First step. Many children have creative, diligent mothers who chronicle these milestones for their children. Unfortunately,…
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