Watson and the Shark Narration
Watson and the Shark by John Singleton Copley, 1778
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Written Narrations YR5/YR6
Here are some samples of YR5/YR6 written narrations from the past calendar year. There are spelling errors, but for the sake of focusing on the composition I’m correcting them as I type. The grammar I’m leaving as is. I imagine these are shorter than the average written narrations at this age, but in a composition
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The Habit of Attention
How often today do we come across children who can’t hold a conversation, can’t sit still, can’t focus? What is our society’s answer? ADHD – medicate! Is this really the answer? In some cases, perhaps, but in so many children? What are the stats now? I think in some states it is 10% or higher.
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Narration at Night
Okay, we don’t normally do narrations at bedtime. We usually reserve evenings for free reads and stories that may help them fall asleep, not something that they have to be so attentive to as to narrate afterwards. But we were getting behind in our Robin Hood reading last spring, and the day before I was
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On Narration
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?
CM In The News
An article from God’s World News titled, “The Art of Retelling” just came to my inbox. I was almost startled when they mentioned Charlotte Mason herself! The age-old communicative tool of retelling has been used at least since the days when Moses was commanded to repeat the works of God to the children of Israel.
Method of Learning
I’m up late again, almost halfway through “the little green book”, Charlotte Mason Reviewed and came across an explanation of the method of learning advocated by CM and thought it was definitely worth posting here. I’ve often found it difficult at times to dig up the “how to” in CMs 6 volumes of writings and
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