We’ve completed reading through Henry V, our first Shakespeare play! Well, we’d read many of his plays in story form in Lamb’s Tales from Shakespeare, which I’m now re-reading with my 8yo son, but this was our first ‘real’ play in full Shakespeare language. Here’s a list of the Lamb’s tales we read over the […]
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This school year, my nature group tried our first attempt at foreign language plays. It has always seemed out of the ordinary to me that of us ten or so moms, seven different languages are spoken or being studied. One mom is fluent in Japanese, another in Afrikaans, one in Armenian, and one is fluent
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My, this blog is sorely neglected lately! I have a million thoughts in a day to share and always good intentions to do so, and then of course real life ends up taking precedence. Let’s see, I thought I’d post about grammar a while back to tell you how I was caught completely off guard
Courtney, our local Classical Ed connection has been turning me on to audios over at Circe Institute, the latest being “Good to Great: Teaching Literature From Grammar to Rhetoric” by James Taylor, author of Poetic Knowledge: The Recovery of Education, the book our group will be reading next. This is a talk that was issued
Welcome to the Charlotte Mason Blog Carnival! And thanks for joining us all the way out in California this time where we are going to talk about Poetry, a subject near and dear to many a Charlotte Masoner’s heart! If there’s anything we have learned through implementing the Charlotte Mason method, it is that words
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I think it’s been over two years since our kids have seen snow, so when some friends said they were renting a cabin for the weekend and invited us up to Big Bear in the San Bernardino National Forest, we didn’t think twice. For Orange County folk Big Bear is a quick two hour jaunt
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Charlotte Mason’s ideas on composition are an incredible paradigm shift for anyone involved in education. Here is what she says in Vol. 6 about composition for children aged 9-12… “…Composition is not an adjunct but an integral part of their education in every subject. The exercise affords very great pleasure to children, perhaps we all
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A discussion came up at our monthly meeting about handicrafts and their relevance today and I thought I’d post a continuation here to add my thoughts and also for anyone else to do the same. In today’s technologically driven world, are handicrafts, like wood-working or knitting, still relevant? Wouldn’t it serve our children better to
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Reading Wind in the Willows for the second time around, I can’t help but wonder if I really ever did read this book before! I just don’t remember ever knowing how wonderful it truly is. I felt the same way about Winnie the Pooh when we picked up that old friend again. The language and
LORD JESUS,Give me to love thee, to embrace thee, though I once took lust and sin in my arms.Thou didst love me before I loved thee, an enemy, a sinner, a loathsome worm.Thou didst own me when I disclaimed myself;Thou dost love me as a son, and weep over me as over Jerusalem.Love brought thee