I am a married 42 year old Christian home schooling mom, and this is what I have learned after 8 years of home schooling my two sons. 1. It DOESN’T look like what I had envisioned………and that is o.k.! 2. It may NEVER look like what I had envisioned……….and that is o.k.! 3. My boys may…
Category: Charlotte Mason Method
Be Intentional and careful about the Ideas you pass on to your Children!
Rejoice in the Lord always. Again I will say, rejoice! 5 Let your gentleness be known to all men. The Lord is at hand. Be anxious for nothing, but in everything by prayer and supplication, with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God; and the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will…
Visiting the Past: My Thoughts on Narration
If you are interested in the Charlotte Mason Method for home school, know that NARRATION is at the top of the list of IMPORTANT and FOUNDATIONAL components of the CM method. If you can only add a few of the CM components this year, make sure Narration is one of them! Click HERE to see…
Outdoor Hour Nature Close to Home: Winter Wednesdays-Tree Silhouettes
Trees Tall ones, short ones, fat ones, skinny ones. Trees dark ones, light ones, live ones, dead ones. Trees young ones, old ones, full ones, empty ones. Trees winter ones, spring ones, summer ones, autumn ones Trees I just love God’s Trees!! The other day we took off to enjoy the beautiful weather we have…
Outdoor Hour Nature Close to Home: SNOW
We have had a snow & Ice filled week and that is NOT normal where we live. So this was the perfect time to do the Winter Wednesday week 2 SNOW nature challenge!! Shadows on Snow/ice Tracks in Snow/ ice Experiments and Art with Snow/ ice: How much water do you have after a whole…
Birds in the winter
I had forgotten the joy of watching the birds come to our feeder. This week being able to see birds with the snow as a backdrop was just beautiful. Birds are one of my favorite creations of our amazing creator! When you look at these wee things, living and surviving especially in the winter weather, how can…
Habits can drive us crazy or save us!
Ann @ Holy Experience ask us to prayerfully consider: The Practice of Making a Habit Today I am blogging at The One Thing, linking to this post at Holy Experience and posting it at Habits for a Happy Home. You see my mind and heart have really been meditating on ‘good’ habits and habit training since we have…
Current Composer Study: Beethoven
Beethoven Quote below from Classics for Kids….. About Ludwig van Beethoven Ludwig van Beethoven was a uniquely talented composer and musician. But by the time Beethoven was 30, his increasing deafness put an end to his career as a pianist. That did not stop him from continuing to compose some of the most beautiful music…
Habit of Working Together (and great backyard bird resource)
Quote from an author at the blog called Habits for a Happy Home I’m so proud! I have known Kellie since high school. Yearbook staff, out with our big group of friends. She even survived going on a family vacation with us and a passel of cousins. She and I ended up at the same…
Making Changes
We are about six weeks into our new school year and I am making some changes!! Read More at Live, Love, Learn .
Charlotte Mason Blog Carnival: Beach Edition!
Sit back, relax, ponder some wise words from Charlotte Mason and enjoy the insight, encouragement and inspiration from some of your fellow CM HS moms!! ‘I am, I ought, I can, I will.’––’I am, I ought, I can, I will’––these are the steps of that ladder of St. Augustine, whereby we”rise on stepping stones Of…
Today is for Reflection: Why the Charlotte Mason Method?
Why the Charlotte Mason method? WHY NOT!! =) I remember the first time I read about CM about five years ago that this method just made sense to me. It also sounded more interesting than what I experienced during my school days. I felt like I could give my children a very solid education without…
Habits for a Happy Home
If we have been successful in establishing a habit there will always be another one we have to establish, one that we need to work harder on or worse one we have to reestablish. This is true in training ourselves or in training our children. Just when you think you might have a habit established…
Outside Hour: Nature Close to Home- Reptiles
Here we share our recent adventures with those creatures that our amazing creator made and that we call REPTILES! Last Monday afternoon I had to go and check on our new chicks and I found an Eastern King Snake in a laying box with an egg in his mouth. I went down to the house…
Creation Study all about Chickens
In honor of our new chicks we did an official “Chicken” Creation Study!! Can you believe this is the 3rd summer we have had chicks/chickens and this is the first time we’ve done an official study on them =) We had 8 chicks (1st one hatched Sunday) but tragedy struck tonight and one died =( ,…
Spring Creation Challenges: Outdoor Hour Nature Close To Home
This post will include two Spring Challenges by Barb @ Handbook Nature Study Blog plus an update on our Dogwood tree that we are doing a 4 season tree study on. Wednesday we took advantage of the BEAUTUFUL day and we enjoyed doing the Spring Weather Creation Study, we also filled out the weather notebook…
Weekly Wrap-Up
Here is my Weekly Wrap-Up but don’t forget to go HERE and check out more Weekly Wrap-Ups from other Home School moms! (digging to see what can be found) Sunday evening we came home from a weekend field trip on J.Island and it was wonderful! Big beautiful oaks, spanish moss, shade, sand, rocks, huge old trees…
Come take a look @ a NEW Spring Nature Study e-book
Here is a quote from Barb @ the HNS Blog about her new Spring Nature Study e-book: You will have a complete plan at your fingertips for your spring nature study, art appreciation, and music study. This e-book looks and sounds wonderful!! Once again Barb has presented us with a wonderful resource for Nature Study….
Habits for a Happy Home
See my POST for this week at the Habits for a Happy Home Blog: Mother’s Owe A Thinking Love to their Children.
A Typical Charlotte Mason Workbox Home School Day for us
This is a follow-up or Update on three other post of mine: Habit of Crying out to God , What about our own Habits and Habit of finding what works for you . I just want to go a little more in detail about how the workbox system looks in our home on a day-to-day basis. The post “Habit of finding…
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