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We sat watching a flock of gulls on the beach of L We sat watching a flock of gulls on the beach of Lake Ontario. They are very common birds there, but still so striking. Just look at this beauty! Do you have a common bird that you see regularly who can still make you catch your breath in awe and wonder? @antonella.f.greco . . . . . . . . . #charlottemasonpoetry #Godinnature #canadianbirds #eyesandnoeyes #naturestudy #1000hoursoutisde #explorenature #vitaminN #naturewalks #birdlovers #birdstagram #lakeontario #ontariobirds #backyardbirds #birdstalking #birdsinflight #seagull #gull #gulls #canadianwildlife #wildandfreechildren #childhoodunplugged #motherhoodunplugged #childrenarebornpersons #charlottemasonliving #charlottemasonlife #exploringnaturewithchildren #charlottemasonforall #spreadingthefeast #educationisalife
The word “Latin” is circled in my old pink cop The word “Latin” is circled in my old pink copy of Home Education. It’s on page 61, where Charlotte Mason writes that watching a caterpillar turn into a moth is “of more use to the child than the reading of a whole book of natural history, or much geography and Latin.” I got the message loud and clear. A little bit of good work in nature is worth a big bit of mediocre work in Latin. Circling that word fixed my priorities and calibrated my scale. As I read more of Charlotte Mason, I saw more of what House of Education graduate E. M. Till wrote in 1965: “Charlotte Mason was a progressive thinker who devoted her life to children, and who believed that to be adequate, a method of education should ‘touch at all points the living thought of the age.‘” Living thought and living languages. French, Spanish, Arabic, those are the languages of today. Latin? What does that relic have to do with Charlotte Mason? I set out to determine when that relic was finally dropped from the PNEU Programmes. Maybe the 1940s, 50s, or 60s? In my research I stumbled across a quote that made my heart stop. It’s the one sentence that has since anchored my perspective on the place of Latin in the Charlotte Mason method. I found it in the 1961 Parents’ Review, tucked away in a little book review: “Some time ago there was a prolonged correspondence in The Times on ‘the use of Latin in schools’, which made one thankful that this basic language is in no danger of being removed from P.U.S. Programmes.” Only four years before E. M. Till wrote about “the living thought of the age,” her very own journal said that Latin was “basic” — a word we get from the Latin word “basis,” which means a pedestal or a base. As a base for English, Latin is in no danger of being removed from the programmes. Just a casual sentence in a short review of a neat little book called Winnie Ille Pu. You can read the review at the profile link. Latin certainly can’t compete with caterpillars. But what can? A subject doesn’t have to be as good as nature study to still be essential to the method. Is Latin finally in danger of being removed from contemporary Charlotte Mason programmes? Not from mine. @artmiddlekauff
Have you ever wondered how to use the monthly colu Have you ever wondered how to use the monthly columns for a Flower List in your nature notebook? Simply place a checkmark in the month that a flower’s stamen becomes visible as well as each month it continues to flower. The stamen is the part that contains the pollen—usually made up of a filament and anther. Agnes Drury, inspector of nature notebooks at the Charlotte Mason College, explains: “Other summaries are lists kept on squared paper at the end of the nature note book with a column for every month. A bird list thus shows which birds are native and which are migrants or winter visitors and how long they stay. If two lines or more are allowed for each name, successive years can be compared. In a flower list, such a table shows the earliest date at which the stamens are showing and to check the list on the first of each month indicates how long each plant flowers” (Parents’ Review, 1952). @rbaburina . . . . . #naturenotebook #naturejournal #perpetualjournal #naturejournaling #naturejournalingwithkids #naturestudy #charlottemasonnaturestudy #documentingnature #brushdrawing #charlottemasoneducation #wildandfreechildren #charlottemasonmum #charlottemasonresources #homeschoolresources #hyggehomeschool #agnesdrury #edithholden #charlottemasonnaturejournal #kindleandglow #naturewalk #softness_and_lovely #flowersandthings #smallmomentsofcalm #naturenotes #watercolorflorals #naturesketchbook #drawingnature #brushdrawingwithchildren
The year was 1913. The PNEU faithful had gathered The year was 1913. The PNEU faithful had gathered in London at Caxton Hall for their 17th annual conference. The evening of the first day arrived. The Honorable Mrs. Franklin stepped forward to read a paper. It was a paper recently authored by the organization’s own founder, none other than Charlotte Mason herself. Caxton Hall was famous for hosting events that called for a new and better day. That night in May of 1913 was no exception. “Is it true that we are within a stone’s throw of Utopia?” asked Mrs. Franklin, in the words of Charlotte Mason. The title of Mason’s paper was “Self-Education.” What exciting ideas awaited the expectant audience? Perhaps “gratifying visions of rhythmic movements, independent action, self-expression in various interesting ways”? Perhaps a merge with an “ingenious” educational innovation just then emerging from the continent? Nope. That was not the self-education Mason had in mind. A century later are we closer to or farther from the Utopia Mason envisioned? Whatever the answer, Mason’s proclamation of a better way still rings true. Read or hear the original, unabridged version of “Self-Education,” available now for the first time in over 100 years. You’ll find it at the profile link. @artmiddlekauff . . . . . . . #charlottemasonpoetry #charlottemason #homeeducation #charlottemasonhomeschool #homeschool #homeschoolcollective #homeschoollife #simplehomeschool #intentionalhomeschooling #cmhomeschool #homeschoolpodcast #intentionalhome #educationisalife #thisishomeschool #homeschoolfamily #homeschooldays #livingbooks #livingchildhood #livingeducation #schooleducation #charlottemasonbooks #welleducatedhearts #charlottemasonforall #charlottemasonmethod #charlottemasoninspired #thisishomeschool #forthechildrenssake #simpleliving
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