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10 Things to See This Winter for Homeschool Nature Study
Winter within us means vitality and purpose and throbbing life ; and without us in our fields and woods it means widened prospect, the storm of battle, the holiness of peace, the poetry of silence and...
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What is Charlotte Mason Picture Study?
Art and homeschooling are two subjects close to my heart, so it makes sense that Picture Study is something that I write about often here. When I first started offering the Picture Study Aids in 2017,...
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Caravaggio Picture Study Aid and Art Prints
To read more about Charlotte Mason picture study and to see the other Picture Study Aids I offer, click here. All works, no matter what or by whom painted, are nothing but bagatelles and childish...
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Charlotte Mason-Inspired Kindergarten Curriculum (free booklist!)
Are you thinking about homeschooling your child for their kindergarten year? In this post, I share how we did ours and offer tips and resources to plan your own Charlotte Mason kindergarten year! I...
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2024-2025 AmblesideOnline Picture Study Free Printables!
Please note that I have been given AmblesideOnline’s permission to use their name in the title and body of this post as well as their permission to use their Artist Study rotation to make these files....
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12 Things to Do for Homeschool Spring Nature Study
Now I am going to give you a prescription, — for some woods medicine, — a magic dose that will cure you of blindness and deafness and clumsy-footedness, that will cause you to see things and hear...
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Eugène Delacroix Picture Study Aid and Art Prints
To read more about Charlotte Mason picture study and to see the other Picture Study Aids I offer, click here. A picture is nothing but a bridge between the soul of the artist and that of the...
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John William Waterhouse Picture Study Video Session
His education should furnish him with whole galleries of mental pictures, pictures by great artists old and new;––…–– in fact, every child should leave school with at least a couple of hundred...
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YouTube Picture Study (and Art for Frame TVs!)
One of my hopes for this website and all of the things I do online is to encourage others in their homeschool journey, especially in finding ways to help families include picture study in their...
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Record of Readings and Recitations for Homeschoolers
Keeping a record of readings and recitations you’ve chosen for your homeschooling journey is a good habit to adopt as your students get older. It not only serves as a comprehensive archive of your...
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10 Things to Do for Summer Nature Study (free printable!)
“I believe that a child’s interest in outdoor life is a kind of hunger, as natural as his interest in bread and butter. He cannot live on bread and butter alone but he ought not to try to live without...
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Our Charlotte Mason Homeschool Seventh Grade Recap
(Please note that I have linked to the book lists on the Ambleside Online website to respect their licensing terms and the hard work they’ve put into such an amazing curriculum that they offer for...
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Our Charlotte Mason Homeschool Fourth Grade Recap (take 2!)
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Charlotte Mason on Curiosity and the Desire for Knowledge
The Desire of Knowledge.––I have left till last the Desire which truly is to the Mind as Hunger is to the Body, that is, the Desire of Knowledge. Everybody wants to know, but some people wish to know...
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Our Charlotte Mason Homeschool Eighth Grade Plans
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Our Charlotte Mason Homeschool Fifth Grade Plans (take 2!)
(Please note that I have linked to the book lists on the AO website to respect their licensing terms and the hard work they’ve put into such an amazing curriculum that they offer for free. Books that...
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Guide, Philosopher, and Friend
I’ve mentioned the 2018 CMEC retreat recordings many, many times this summer and how incredibly helpful listening to them was for me to prepare for this new school year (thank you to Joy Cherrick, who...
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9 Things to Do in Fall for Homeschool Nature Study
Go yourself frequently into the fields and woods, or into the city parks, or along the water front— anywhere so that you can touch nature directly, and look and listen for yourselves. Don’t try to...
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Why Picture Study is Important to Include in Your Homeschool
Why is picture study important for homeschoolers to include in their lesson time? I have already written a post explaining why picture study is important to me. In this post, I’m going to expand on why...
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How to Narrate Picture Study (3 Different Ways!)
They must read the given pages and tell what they have read, they must perform, that is, what we may call the act of knowing. We are all aware, alas, what a monstrous quantity of printed matter has...
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