I’m previewing the first drafts…. some tweeks to do…. then send back for corrections…. then another draft… I’m working on getting the Word Cards in a format for cutting apart…. won’t be long now! It makes my heart jump a skip when I actually get the finished product in my hands. After working for years […]
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PHILOSOPHY.Sounds and sight recognition of words through observation and attention is what Charlotte Mason’s reading lessons use. The lessons should not be drudgery, but interesting and engaging. Sounding out words as well as sight word recognition are part of her method. Lessons in CM are short in order to train attention. These lessons typically run
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Selected Quotes from Charlotte Mason on Reading Lessons.Annotations in [ ] by Real Living Life. Read the complete chapters where Charlotte describes reading lessons in Volume 1 page 199-222. “Learning to read is hard work for most children, but it must be done, and we as parents should try to make the lessons as easy
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Selected quotes from Charlotte Mason on Poetry Study.Annotations in [ ] by Real Living Life. “Poetry takes first rank as a means of intellectual culture. Goethe tells us that we ought to see a good picture, hear good music, and read some good poetry every day; and, certainly, a little poetry should form part of
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PHILOSOPHY. The purpose of Poetry Study is to develop a love of beautiful language and meaningful thoughts for reflections and character. Poetry is a large part of Charlotte’s curriculum. She often talks about the moral lessons and satisfying qualities of poetry for students.Charlotte speaks, in general, of knowing our poets, but necessarily with the specific
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Moving from Oral to Written Narrations Eventually a student will move from all oral narrations to written narrations. A written narration is…. Just like you guessed… writing a narration on paper rather than giving it orally.To make this move a student must be proficient at two things. First, they must be proficient oral narrators. This
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Selected quotes from Charlotte Mason on Picture StudyAnnotations in [ ] by Real Living Life. “The Palace of Art.—We take pleasure, too, in the arrangement and colouring of a nice room, of a nice dress, in the cover of a book, in the iron fittings of a door, when these are what is called artistic.
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PHILOSOPHY. You are working towards your student building a relationship with a particular artist. The end goal is to get to know, to appreciate, connect with, recognize, become friends with, build a relationship with- not individual paintings, but with the artist. Nor are you trying to critique particular technicalities of a work, but to know
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Yes absolutely you sure can. That’s what we did when I first started. There are also reprints out there of the 1881 version. However we used it one time and then I shelved it. I had no desire to go through that book again with another child. We had tears in our family using the
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ONE PIN AT A TIME On the daily road of subjects- day after day, the learning work ticks on and on. We get into grooves – which is good. If we had to think about every small action done everyday we would be overwhelmed. Grooves, like many character traits and habits, have their benefits but
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