As homeschoolers, we are used to thinking out of the box. We know that learning doesn’t only happen at a desk or in a classroom. Our children are learning all the time. Our job as homeschooling parents is to provide them with an environment that facilitates their learning. One such environment is the outdoors, where …
Category Archives: Charlotte Mason
Living Books for All Subjects
This week, I gave a talk at the 2022 Charlotte Mason Inspired Summit about using living books for all subjects. I spoke about the advantages of living books over textbooks and the importance of engaging our children emotionally in the learning process. As promised in the talk, below is a list of resources I mentioned …
Building Writing Skills at Home
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More Charlotte Mason resources
We’ve been speaking a lot about the Charlotte Mason style of homeschooling this month. I hope you found the summit and the blog posts informative and helpful. If you haven’t had a chance to attend the summit, you can now find all the recordings, as well as additional resources, in the Charlotte Mason Homeschooling Bundle. …
Grammar – the Fun Way
Note: this post contains affiliate links, and at no cost to you, I make a small commission when you purchase through my links. The word “grammar” does not conjure positive associations for most parents. They recall their own struggles in school with boring and tedious worksheets, full of meaningless sentences and paragraphs. They cringe at …
Charlotte Mason Potpourri
Charlotte Mason’s educational philosophy is broad and holistic. While many homeschoolers associate this homeschooling style with specific activities, like narration, nature study, and handiwork, there is a lot more to this approach than the sum of its parts. Today, in honor of our Charlotte Mason Homeschooling Summit next week, I’d like to bring you a …
Living Books for Education
We are running out of space on our bookshelves. Again. I don’t know how this happens. We have a wall-sized built in bookshelf, as well as several smaller ones. But there is never enough room for good books. And we can’t possibly stop buying them! The concept of living books is what drew me to …