Welcome to the March 2013 edition of the Charlotte Mason Blog Carnival! This month we are talking about: The Sacredness of Personality and since many of the posts are on topic you have a wonderful opportunity to learn about this foundational idea from varying perspectives. And what’s truly amazing is just how much wisdom there […]
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I have a backlog of photos from this month’s nature days so this will be more of a photolog than a blog post. Lots of interesting things to see! This is a firewheel flower my son found that had an unusual extra flower growing out of the side of it. This set of pictures is
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How contrary to popular educational methods would be the idea of leaving a child’s question unanswered; worse yet, leaving them to form wrong opinions? Well it seems that it was no less absurd 115 years ago based on a Parent’s Review article titled Elementary Science-Teaching by one Mary Everest Boole. But it is, in fact,
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Before we started Term 2 of YR5 I heard from several people that the Biography option A Passion for the Impossible: The Life of Lilias Trotter was incredibly dry and uninteresting. I had never heard the name before and had no opinion of her book except that the pictures of her were lovely and my
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While it may not seem like much… to this doting mother it is clearly the first sign of poetic expression! An unprompted journal entry – sweet rewards for this mama who is stepping out in faith that this way of educating our children does in fact produce fruit. (And yes, I did get permission to
This is our growing collection of all things made by yarn, hook and needle. The amigurumi are made by me. Totoro and chibi totoro from a couple years ago – we love the movie and visited the Ghibli Museum in Mitaka, my mother’s home town, a few years ago. Did you know I’m half Japanese?
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After hours of preparation by busy hands it was finally time for our 2nd Annual Holiday Handicraft Fair! Here are links to our past Handicraft Fairs: Jun 2011Dec 2011May 2012 And here are pictures from our prep and today’s Handicraft Fair:
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…so besotted (infatuated) is our educational thought that we believe children regard knowledge rather as repulsive medicine than as inviting food. Hence our dependence on marks and prizes, athletics, alluring presentation, any jam we can devise to disguise the powder. […] This atrophy of the desire of knowledge is the penalty our scholars pay because
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More enormous relief to teachers, a self-sacrificing and greatly overburdened class can be found in a new post by Dr. Jennifer Spencer of Childlight who admits she wrestled with CM’s assertions on composition for many years. You can read about her findings and conclusions in her latest blog post over at Childlight here: http://childlightusa.wordpress.com/2012/11/05/the-due-use-of-books-by-dr-jennifer-spencer/
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From Science and Religion, part 3by Mrs. Dowson, L.R.C.P. & S., I.Volume 11, 1900, pgs. 13-18 …there is good work to be done in showing the confusion of thought underlying a belief that science or anything else can adequately interpret the meaning of the higher reality in terms of the lower. Dr. Ward says that
SCIENCE and what we are losing on the way Read More »