Fish are a bit difficult to record in your nature journal unless you’re watching them through an aquarium. In my experience, even after already honing our observation skills with birds that flit from tree to tree and out of sight, when we went snorkeling, it proved more challenging to remember all Read more…
The Charlotte Mason method encourages a lot of nature study. In our family, we started by studying flowers and other plants, and insects, too, but I think, for our family, having all boys, studying birds was really what made it click for us. Bird watching as our foray into CM Read more…
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…
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…
Nature study is one of our favorite aspects in the Charlotte Mason method. But sometimes, those of us who have done it over many years can forget how difficult it can be to get started. What do you do when your child doesn’t seem interested, or doesn’t know how to Read more…