Copywork is one of the mainstays of a Charlotte Mason homeschool. We use copywork as a daily activity that supports language arts learning. But if you’re new to the philosophy, you might wonder what it is and how it works its magic. In this post, we hope to give you Read more
Narration. Every student in the Charlotte Mason philosophy possesses this skill and continues to grow in it. It may sound simple. After all, the student merely reads the lesson, and then he’s asked to tell about all he remembers from the reading. For those of us who were not educated Read more
Learning about American history is fun when you learn through reading living books: engaging stories of real people, or inspired by real people, that draw you into the different time periods just as though you were experiencing them yourself! The Charlotte Mason method of teaching history uses living books, which Read more
We love how the Charlotte Mason method introduces living ideas to our children, even from a young age. These include the lives of historical figures, giving them the chance to experience life during different time periods and through different sets of eyes. In our post on how to teach history Read more
A century ago when Prussia was shipwrecked in the Napoleonic wars it was discovered that not Napoleon but Ignorance was the formidable national enemy; a few philosophers took the matter in hand, and history, poetry, philosophy, proved the salvation of a ruined nation, because such studies make for the development Read more