Charlotte Mason Poetry
  • About
    • Podcast
    • About Us
  • Resources
    • The Saviour of the World
    • Math
    • Brush Drawing
    • Sloyd
    • Map Questions
    • The Changing Year
  • Home Education Series
    • Home Education
    • Parents and Children
  • Parents’ Review
  • Topical Index
  • Search
  • 🇧🇷
    • Nossos Corpos, Nossas Almas
    • Ourselves: Nossos Corpos, Nossas Almas
Resources

Resources

Math Resources

Brush Drawing Resources

Sloyd Resources

The Saviour of the World

First Grammar Lessons

Notes of Lessons

Share this:

  • Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)
  • Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)
  • Click to email this to a friend (Opens in new window)
  • Click to print (Opens in new window)

Resources

  • The Saviour of the World
  • Math Resources
  • Brush Drawing Resources
  • Sloyd Resources
  • Map Questions
  • First Grammar Lessons
  • Faith: Eleven Sermons with a Preface
  • The Changing Year
  • Calendar for The Cloud of Witness and The Golden Key
  • Idyll Schedule 3
  • Parents’ Union School Time Tables
  • Notes of Lessons
  • Give to the Armitt

Videos

  • Charlotte Mason and the Educational Tradition
  • Mason’s Program for Bible Lessons
  • Charlotte Mason’s Twenty Principles
  • Charlotte Mason and Math: A Mountain Perspective

Favorites

  • Teaching Paper Sloyd
  • Charlotte Mason’s Call to Parents
  • The Mediocre Purist
  • How to Learn the Charlotte Mason Method
  • The Truth About Volume 6
  • Building Without Scaffolds
  • Mason’s Program for Bible Lessons
  • The Living Principles of Sloyd
  • Learning Styles and Charlotte Mason
  • Wading in the Shallows
  • On Distraction
  • How to Keep a Nature Note-Book
  • Five Important Differences Between Charlotte Mason and Classical Christian Education
  • Lesson Preparation
  • From Classical Teacher to Charlotte Mason Educator
  • Sharing the Effort To Know
  • Twice Blessed
  • First Reading Lessons
  • How to Safeguard the Love of Learning
  • A Dangerous Adventure

Subscribe

Join 928 other subscribers

charlottemasonpoetry
“Give us this day our daily bread.” So we were “Give us this day our daily bread.” So we were taught to pray by our Lord Jesus Himself. So were the people wrong to seek after Him “because [they] ate of the loaves, and were filled”? ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Perhaps not. But then not all bread is for the stomach. And this Teacher was different from all who had come before: ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ “Sage of the East, Philosopher of the West, Keeps esoteric teaching for the few, Disciples, chosen, who have followed him Through teachings labyrinthine. Not so, Christ: This multitude of ignorant, who came For what He might give of tangible and gross— He spread for them a table of the Lord Their heart had not conceived of, nor eye seen!” ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Some call it a liberal education; some call it a banquet. In today’s poem by Charlotte Mason, we see that it is the Bread of Life. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ @artmiddlekauff
“Patient Observation. Let me again say that this “Patient Observation. Let me again say that this is due from us, and is not a thing we may take up or leave alone as we think fit. Let each of us undertake the patient, unflagging, day-by-day observation of the behaviour of sparrow, spider, teazel, of clouds or winds, recording what we ourselves have seen, correcting our records as we learn to be more accurate, and being very chary of conclusions. All we find out may be old knowledge, and is most likely already recorded in books; but, for us, it is new, our own discovery, our personal knowledge, a little bit of the world’s real work which we have attempted and done. However little work we do in this kind, we gain by it some of the power to appreciate, not merely beauty, but fitness, adaptation, processes. Reverence and awe grow upon us, and we are brought into a truer relation with the Almighty Worker.” (Vol IV, Book II, pp 101-102) ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ @antonella.f.greco
Narration is one of the hallmarks of the Charlotte Narration is one of the hallmarks of the Charlotte Mason method. It is a fairly simple thing, but it can be hard at first to understand it. We often make it more complicated than it needs to be, and we sometimes add in elements we’ve picked up from other ways of doing education. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ When the Charlotte Mason method was adopted in several British schools in the 1920’s, the Secretary of Education noticed the same problem. Here were experienced, well-meaning teachers all doing their best. But H. W. Household found out that they were doing narration incorrectly. They weren’t practicing narration “the Charlotte Mason way.” ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Of course I’ve read what Charlotte Mason wrote about narration, and I’ve read some Parents’ Review articles about it too. But even with that, I find that other thoughts and ideas about narration can easily creep in. So at the beginning of every school year, I like to sit down and read H. W. Household’s 1925 memo. It’s my way of wiping the slate clean. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Whether you’re new to Charlotte Mason, or just starting a school year, I recommend that you take a moment to read it too. It’s short and to the point, and you can find it at the profile link. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ @aolander
I feel like a pretty busy guy, with my career and I feel like a pretty busy guy, with my career and my homeschooling. But Charlotte Mason points out that even “the busiest of us have holidays when we slip our necks out of the yoke and come face to face with Nature, to be healed and blessed by—’The breathing balm, The silence and the calm Of mute, insensate things.’” (vol. 1, p. 50) ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ I had a chance to slip out of the yoke and spend a brief holiday in nature. But how long would the healing last? “This immediate refreshment is open to everybody according to his measure,” Mason writes; “but it is a mistake to suppose that everybody is able to carry away a refreshing image of that which gives him delight.” What is the secret to carrying away a refreshing image that will last for days and years to come? Is it an ability that only poets possess? ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ No: “this is no high poetic gift which the rest of us must be content to admire, but a common reward for taking pains in the act of seeing.” Mason gives several suggestions for how to practice the “act of seeing.” Some people go as far as to keep their memories in a book: they collect “wild flowers for the several months, press them, and mount them neatly on squares of cartridge paper.” (p. 52) ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Then Mason shows us another way: “better still is it to accustom children to make careful brush drawings of the flowers.” Last weekend I saw fairy trumpet flowers. But it was when I painted that I really saw them. I didn’t need squares of cartridge paper. As soon as the brush touched the page, the flower was mounted in my heart. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ @artmiddlekauff
Load More... Follow on Instagram

Facebook

Facebook

Recent Posts

  • A Walk in August
  • A Living Education in France
  • Teaching Children to Pray
  • Scripture Teaching
  • A Walk in July

Categories

  • Art
  • Ask Art
  • Bible
  • Citizenship
  • Classical
  • CMI Conference
  • CMS Conference
  • Composition
  • Drill
  • Early Years
  • French
  • Geography
  • Great Recognition
  • Habit
  • Handicrafts
  • History
  • Idyll Challenge
  • L’Umile Pianta
  • LER
  • Lifestyle
  • Literature
  • Math
  • Method
  • Montessori
  • Music
  • Narration
  • Nature Study
  • Physics
  • Podcast
  • Poetry
  • Portuguese
  • Reading
  • Recitation
  • Scaffolding
  • Scheduling
  • Science
  • Sloyd
  • The Changing Year
  • The Parents’ Review
  • Theology

Archives

  • August 2020
  • July 2020
  • June 2020
  • May 2020
  • April 2020
  • March 2020
  • February 2020
  • January 2020
  • December 2019
  • November 2019
  • October 2019
  • September 2019
  • August 2019
  • July 2019
  • June 2019
  • May 2019
  • April 2019
  • March 2019
  • February 2019
  • January 2019
  • December 2018
  • November 2018
  • October 2018
  • September 2018
  • August 2018
  • July 2018
  • June 2018
  • May 2018
  • April 2018
  • March 2018
  • February 2018
  • January 2018
  • December 2017
  • November 2017
  • October 2017
  • September 2017
  • August 2017
  • July 2017
  • June 2017
  • May 2017
  • April 2017
  • March 2017
  • February 2017
  • January 2017
  • December 2016
  • November 2016
  • October 2016
  • September 2016
  • August 2016
  • July 2016
  • June 2016
  • May 2016
  • February 2016
  • January 2013
  • July 2012
  • February 2012
  • September 2011
  • February 2009
  • July 2008
  • September 2007

Feeds

  • RSS - Posts
  • RSS - Comments
Copyright © 2020 Charlotte Mason Poetry Team
loading Cancel
Post was not sent - check your email addresses!
Email check failed, please try again
Sorry, your blog cannot share posts by email.