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 …
I have been pondering on some of the many aspects of our homeschool learning that we have enjoyed over the years. Nature Study has always played quite an important part in our learning home and has been instrumental in leading my eldest daughter into her chosen career field. As many established readers will know she …
I have been working on some homeschool nature study plans for January. I find that the new year always brings such promise and always inspires me to start the new homeschool year off well. I use affiliate links in some blog posts. If you click through and make a purchase, I earn a small commission …
We’ve been homeschooling using the Charlotte Mason philosophy in our homeschool for many years. Everything about her philosophy was just “right”. I totally fell in love with her living books, her rigorous yet gentle approach to lessons. I believe totally in the ‘Science of Relations’, in her statement that ‘Children are persons’ and in her …
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 …
I recently sat with a wonderful Godly woman, a missionary, who shared with me her personal heartache of her daughter, who’s faith had been ‘reasoned’ to a point where she was seriously questioning her personal faith! All Images in this post are from AllPosters.com This is a young lady who grew up in a family …
When we first started participating in the Outdoor Hour, I have to admit to having very little confidence in approaching the study of nature. Anna Botsford Comstocks ‘Handbook of Nature Study’ (link on the left sidebar in my ‘books we use for nature study’ widget) sat on my bookshelf for a whole year before I …
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 …
