What if, after picking the best books to use in your homeschool, your child just whines and complains and insists that he or she just doesn’t like this one particular book? What do you do? Should you switch it out for another book, or should you grit your teeth through Read more…
One of the most important principles in the Charlotte Mason method is the use of short lessons. The idea is that a short time allotted for certain school work teaches the child to pay close attention, because he knows that he only has this short segment with which to finish Read more…
When we think about a Charlotte Mason education, we tend to think of all the literature books that the students read, and feel like they’ll be stuck indoors all day reading. It’s a gentle, yes, but rigorous education, structured according to important principles of learning and how children are created Read more…
The Charlotte Mason method emphasizes the use of plenty of living books over a wide curriculum: with literature, science, history, geography, citizenship, poetry, Bible, at the very minimum. In this digital age, would buying an e-reader like a Kindle be worthwhile? In this post, we hope to look at the Read more…
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…