In case you missed Part I, you can find it here. Since that post, I was able to obtain a copy of The Changing Year by F.M. Haines, the book mentioned by Charlotte Mason in Vol. 6 and her programmes as an aid to the “great deal of out-of-door work” her students did in a […]
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Jeanne and her daughter Jemimah arrived from Australia today for a brief visit before heading off cross country to visit other AO friends. Here’s the wildest creature our girls found today while playing in the sand at the beach!
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“Those first-born affinities That fit our new existence to existing things.” Charlotte Mason quotes this more than once, it’s a verse from William Wordsworth’s poem Prelude describing something I’m not so sure any of us really know how to quantify. What does she mean by it? She begins her entire section devoted to the task
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You can find Part II here: http://livingcminca.blogspot.com/2013/07/choose-some-special-study-part-ii.html In describing her Science curriculum in Volume 6, Towards a Philosophy of Education, Charlotte Mason wrote: They are expected to do a great deal of out-of-door work in which they are assisted by The Changing Year, admirable month by month studies of what is to be seen out-of-doors.
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