This is my messy morning schedule I scribbled out while I was at the beach Thursday. Cindy Rollins’ talk at the AO At Home Conference in Indiana this summer about her precious moments with the kids in the mornings re-inspired me to look at my scheduling again. We’re starting school Wednesday this week and spreading […]
This is a really inspiring description from the April 1923 L’Umile Pianta of what one “H.E. Wix” described as the distinguishing points of Charlotte Mason’s elementary schools: What is it that distinguishes P.N.E.U. Elementary Schools from the ordinary School? It is a difficult question to answer, primarily because the “ordinary school” is indefinable. Many persons think
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I recently heard a very liberating discovery dug up in the May 1914 edition of L’Umile Pianta. But before I mention it here’s part of Redeemer’s description of the ‘magazine’: In 1895 the House of Education Old Students’ Association was formed to provide current and ‘old’ students who were scattered abroad, opportunities to keep in
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I’ve been hearing a lot about students needing to meet STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) requirements lately in the AO Forum. I also received an email this morning with offers for a new Homeschool Robotics Class highlighting teaching methods and materials that help your children learn STEM subjects.What do you think about all this
Have you heard? AmblesideOnline is in the process of transitioning to a new forum community! Previously, the hub of AO’s curriculum support was their Yahoo group, now they have put together a full fledged forum where there is room for conversation to expand beyond curriculum support. The forum is organized by Form (School Year) and
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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
Frescoe of Santa Maria Novella Grab a cup of tea and make sure you have some time carved out before you dig into this one – there’s a lot of reading! Starting with an article by Aimee Natal titled “Charlotte Mason: For Whose Sake?” in which she wrote: After studying Charlotte Mason’s six volumes, a
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It is hard to describe how incredibly satisfying it is when you make a new discovery. When a light of truth comes on as a result of your very own digging – it is nothing less than thrilling. I recently had just such a discovery. In YR4, we read both Poor Richard – a biography
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Some time ago, I read about a site called Heritage History, it must have been a discussion over on the AO list. Interested to see what they had, I visited the site and found it a valuable resource, so I added a link to it from our Charlotte Mason social network (www.charlottemasoneducation.ning.com). Then last month,
With the next school year looming in the very near future, and an eldest daughter heading into YR4, I am scrambling to get my act together and figure out what all she is doing. For those of you who may not be familiar with AO YR4, there are several new things to become acquainted with:
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