Our now-adult children have a broad appreciation for many different genre’s of music, from 70’s rock to country, classical, indy, jazz, all manner of music and I attribute that to our embracing all this in our home as they were growing up as well as to our music appreciation lessons during our homeschool years. Below …
Ever wondered what a Morning Basket of Living Books is? Charlotte Mason advocated living books. They are books that are not dumbed down to as to be condescending to the child. Those types of books would be deemed as ‘twaddle’ by Charlotte Mason and have no place on the child’s bookshelf. For most of our …
Charlotte Mason on Picture Study Picture Study is one of those things that you can include in your day that really does not take up a lot of time, but has a huge impact. It takes us all of 8 minutes once a week, yet years later my children are able to recognize works of …
How exciting to wake up to a new month, a new season and a feast day! Today is St.Davids Day, the patron saint of Wales. I think I might make potato and leek soup for lunch and a daffodil cake if I have time – Tuesday’s are busy in my home so I’m not sure …
** Tomorrow we are off on a 5 day holiday on a boat on the Norfolk Broads. We are super excited of course, but I thought that while I am away it would be fun to re-visit a few of my older posts. Shall we start with a hands on lesson on how to implement …
Much that has been said about the teaching of geography applies equally to that of history. Here, too, is a subject which should be to the child an inexhaustible storehouse of ideas, should enrich the chambers of his House Beautiful with a thousand tableaux, pathetic and heroic, and should form in him, insensibly, principles whereby …
This post has been written for the Charlotte Mason Blog Carnival. Principle:-1. A moral rule guiding behavior. 2. A general or basic truth When I was first introduced to Charlotte Mason, the group I attended was busy working through Miss Masons 20 principle’s. I fear being so new to her works and not understanding her methods, …
This week my husband is on leave. We decided to take full advantage and explore our surrounds. I am so very excited to share this particular trip with you. Can you guess where we are… Another clue perhaps? Yes! We took a drive up to Windermere Lake, and among other things, visited Ambleside, home of …
