Welcome!
Grab a cool drink, pull up a chair and enjoy some refreshment and inspiration.
I wanted to share with you few quotations that I've been pondering after reading an intriguing Parent's Review article titled Adventures in Education by Sybil Marshall.
It gave such a wonderful glimpse into a school of the past
where Mason's ideas were being implemented.
These are the ideas that stuck out to me from my reading.
the children's imaginations began to work as never before.
The creative impulse that is born with every child atrophies
unless his imaginative response to his environment keeps it actively in use.
When in use it demands outlets in many different forms, but above all in words."
A New Way to Listen: Commonplacing for Little People
to become personal, to become knowledge."
A Charlotte Mason 'pilgrimage'
but as this is a natural thing it must be used in a natural way."
The First Stage of Nature Journaling
calling for still more detailed observation of nature, of animals, of people...
the need for factual knowledge leads them back again to books,
and the spiral continues upward and onward."
Nature Study Monday:Insect Pests
Barb shares a wealth of things to try at your house for a simple study on trees at Handbook of Nature Study- For the Love of Trees: A Year-Long Tree Study
I'm looking forward to giving some a these a try!
(Habit) Training in Truthfulness
Oh, and one by Yours Truly :) on Thinking Practice
Thanks so much for joining me here.
I hope you have enjoyed reading all these as much as I have!
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