Nature study in this modern day of technology may not look exactly the same as it did during Charlotte Mason’s time. How do we know which tools to use, and which to skip? Consider this a mini-FAQs as we jump into a year of nature study! Charlotte Mason Nature Study Read more
As part of nature study and outdoor time, Charlotte Mason recommends what she calls sight-seeing exercises. What are sight-seeing exercises? Here is how Miss Mason describes sight-seeing exercises–which she recommends to do AFTER you arrive at your location and the kids have had the time to run around, get loud, Read more
How would you like to be able to “go places” even while you’re stuck at your desk or inside the four walls of a room? Charlotte Mason describes the power of having a “picture gallery” in our minds of the sceneries we’ve seen: Though she does not paint her pictures Read more
Charlotte Mason believes that, no matter what social class a child is, the curriculum we offer him needs to meet three requirements: He requires much knowledge, for the mind needs sufficient food as much as does the body. The knowledge should be various, for sameness in mental diet does not Read more
Do you know that the Charlotte Mason method is not really a how-to-do-this or you-must-do-this-and-this kind of thing? Instead, Miss Mason herself invites us to “consider this,” and then she lays out her findings about children and learning. So over the next few weeks, we hope to share posts that Read more