I came back tonight to take a peek at my sorely neglected blog and I found this old page sitting unpublished with the title “Mind to Mind.” We’re calling it “keeping” and “commonplace” these days (wow that makes me sound old!) but I thought I’d share it with you now. Here’s what Charlotte Mason said […]
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After re-watching the Eve Anderson DVD on Picture Study I decided to make individual cardstock prints for each of my kids this year. It cost me less than $15 for all of these beautiful 8.5 x 5.5 prints. I used to pass one full size print around and then put it up for a month. I
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Smart Sept. 2, 2014 My dad gave me one dollar bill ’cause I’m his smartest son,and I swapped it for two shiny quarters ’cause two is more than one! And then I took the quarters and traded them to Loufor three dimes – I guess she don’t know, three’s more then two! Ivanhoe Sept. 16,
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Churchill’s marriage to Clementine, the changing view of a man’s marriage as relevant to his quality of character and ability to lead, and 1 Timothy 3 all came up on our couch today, turning our wheels of thought as she knit her leg warmers and the laundry remained piled high. AO YR6
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What do you think of these quotes about teaching the scientific method? “I have been told, on good authority, that the essence of scientific method is never formulated in lectures addressed to, or text-books intended for, young teachers. …what is most necessary for the children to learn is not what is the last new theory
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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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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
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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My daughter read Longfellow this past week, which she hadn’t been too enthused about because the poems are longer and of a more serious tone than those of A.A. Milne, Christina Rosetti, James Whitcomb Riley, Eugene Field and others from previous years. Precisely why they are very much up my alley – I particularly loved
I heard this quote at a business training seminar years ago… No one waxes a rented car The speaker was making a point about the difference between employee mentality and business owner mentality; that, generally speaking, people care more for something, in this case a business, when they are the ones who own it. What
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