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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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
We read the Chapter on John Bunyan today in Trial and Triumph. Although we had read Pilgrim’s Progress over a two year period, I had never heard Bunyan’s story before. There was a lot that came to mind as we read through it. Bunyan had been a foul-mouthed tinker until one day a woman rebuked
If you’ve ever been to Laguna Beach, you’ve most likely driven by Laguna Coast Wilderness Park. It sits on the only main road in to Laguna Beach from the freeway that curves its way through sandstone canyons. It was the spot of our nature excursion this week. We headed from the Nix Nature Center under
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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
I took the kids to a conference with me a couple of weeks ago and told them they would have to find something to do quietly while we were there. They decided to make story books. Below is my six year old boy’s book. He drew the pictures at the conference, then bugged me for
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We recently borrowed The Big Red Barn by Margaret Wise Brown from the library for my two year old. There is a lot for little ones to find as you read it to them… Here’s another one of our favorite farm books. If you don’t have it already, just buy it. You’ll love it and
Nature teaches so gently, so gradually, so persistently, that he is never overdone, but goes on gathering little stores of knowledge about whatever comes before him. ~Charlotte Mason We are blessed to have a Charlotte Mason group here in Southern California. From what I understand, we are a rare breed. I often find myself feeling
This is our second year of implementing recitation with our children, ranging in age from five to nine. Some of the selections we have used are: Caterpillar by Christina Rosetti, The Eagle by Alfred Lord Tennyson, Lullaby by Edith Nesbit, Trees by Joyce Kilmer, 1st Corinthians 13, and Joy to the World. In that time,
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The soil is the sepulcher and the resurrection of all life in the past. The greater the sepulcher the greater the resurrection. The greater the resurrection the greater the growth. The life of yesterday seeks the earth to-day that new life may come from it tomorrow. The soil is composed of stone flour and organic