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…
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…
The Charlotte Mason method is well known for laying a very strong foundation for language arts, but it’s not as complicated as you might expect an excellent language arts program to be. Would you believe that, using her philosophy, you can go as far as not to need to purchase Read more…
When we were first starting off with the Charlotte Mason method, I encountered the term mother culture and felt that it was a timely reminder for self-care: after all, homeschooling takes so much from us, it’s only understandable that we would need ways to refresh and re-energize ourselves. But the Read more…
In the Charlotte Mason method, when our children are not yet strong readers, we as parents read aloud to them. This is because we use excellent living books from a young age. Sometimes it may be because the child isn’t reading yet, or if he already is reading, because his Read more…