Do you know that a Charlotte Mason education is not all about books? Of course, we love living books! But because CM emphasizes the importance of a wide curriculum, we also make sure to include things like music, art, and teaching our children to work with their hands. Handicrafts are Read more
Whether it’s the holidays or the start of the year that’s just around the corner, you know what that means: gift-giving time! Although we clearly don’t want to feed the commercialization of Christmas and other holidays, it’s still a good time to think about what kind of gifts we want Read more
In the Charlotte Mason homeschool, we hold fast to three main instruments of education: Education is an atmosphere, a discipline, a life. In this post, we hope to unpack the concept of education being dependent on atmosphere. What does Miss Mason mean when she says “Education is an atmosphere”? …for Read more
Every Charlotte Mason homeschool clings to this famous motto: I am, I can, I ought, I will. But what did Miss Mason herself say about this? Why has it made such a big influence on the lives of students throughout the generations? First off, the actual phrase can be traced Read more
It was his father who had taught him everything… Together he and his boy walked through the endless galleries filled with the wonders of the world, the pictures before which through centuries an unbroken procession of almost worshiping eyes had passed uplifted. Because his father made the pictures seem the Read more