Do you get that thrill when you identify something new to you? Or something you have seen countless times but never had a name or an idea about it? I do. Our neighbor found this little bug on her back. My five year old helped me figure out what it was with our Kaufman Field […]
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I found this lovely poem today in an old copy of “Favorite Poems of Emily Dickinson”. I came across it at the library in the used books they were selling – along with Black Beauty, Stone Soup, and Famous Poets for Young People (which my daughter said “Pleeease can we get it?” {sigh of pure
Hello again. I know it has been months since my last post here. I have found posting on my own blogs, as well as maintaining my role as wife, mother, teacher and household manager has kept me up pretty late every night. Most of the time, I just couldn’t seem to manage one more post.
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Have you thought about forming a Charlotte Mason Nature Study Group or Co-op?It has been a wonderful blessing for our little group in so many ways. We highly recommend it. Every group is different and will have a flavor all its own depending on its members.Here are some of the things that have worked well
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Most of us know that narration is the bedrock of learning in a CM education. It is the ‘main thing’, the tool within her method most often associated with a CM education. And so we ask our children to narrate, each in our own way, but how much do we really know about this process?
I’ve had by boys doing copywork, or transcription, since the age of 6. Basically, I type a quote from their literature (I use the font QMF from the Queensland style found through EFI Fonts using three rules), print it out, and have them copy it into their composition notebook. Copywork is not just handwriting practice,
So we had a reading lesson a la Charlotte Mason style today. Turner is five and a half and has learned his sounds and letters. We have listened for rhymes and similar sounds in words, played with words by changing the beginning or ending sounds, but this morning we tried a First Reading Lesson according
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When you hear children talking about games, you can usually expect it is something indoor and played on an electronic screen. But some kids will still play simple outdoor games when you give them the opportunity and let them be. Like chase. At Peter’s Canyon in Orange, after admiring a sundog in the sky, enjoying
Isn’t Spring just beautiful in all her ways? Artichoke Thistle (Cynara cardunculus) Prickly Pear (Opuntia) Some type of Cicada Golden Star (Blumeria crocea) California Buckwheat (Eriogonum fasciculatum) Vista Point Santiago Peak, Santa Ana Mountains, Orange County Elevation 5687ft Indian Paintbrush (Castilleja) Vernal Pool Vernal Pool reflecting bright yellow Black Mustard Black Mustard (Brassica nigra) Black
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At our local CM meeting this month we discussed Self Education, which Charlotte Mason wrote about in the first chapter of Vol. 6. For the sake of brevity, really, I will try, I will highlight a few of my favorite quotes and say just a few things: The gist of it, I believe, is that