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…
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…
Perhaps one reason why we don’t do much nature study is that we don’t know what to do once we’re outdoors. Let’s see what Miss Mason has to say: Supposing we have got them, what is to be done with these golden hours, so that every one shall be delightful? Read more…
The preschool years are a great time to lay excellent foundations of habits for our children. In the Charlotte Mason method, we begin formal academic lessons at the age of 6, but that doesn’t mean that children before that age don’t learn—on the contrary, it’s considered among the most important Read more…