Wildflowers and Marbles

[...] our children may know, love and serve God. Filed under: Charlotte Mason, Classical Education, Home Education [...]

[...] ! I hope you enjoyed Dr. Taylor’s talk as much as I did!  Are you using Good Books in your home education planning this year?  If you know of some sources for building on this idea of using Good [...]

[...] !  It should be a day of encouraging and sharing as we prayerfully consider another year of home education!! Ad Majorem Dei Gloriam! Filed under: Home Education, Small and Ordinary Notes [...]

[...] is ready for the more sophisticated poetry of the Psalms or Shakespeare. {Charlotte Mason, Home Education, p. 161} It can be discouraging – your perfect little basket of books, a comfy chair, [...]

[...] the CiRCE Institute shared a 2003 conference talk by Dr. James Taylor on the topic of using the Good Books and the Great Books as part of teaching literature.  It is an extraordinary talk and I took [...]

[...] great wit and vibrancy his early experiences with Dr. John Senior (the originator of the 1000 Good Books List – here is another excellent tribute worthy of reading) as part of the Integrated [...]

[...] our very ordinary days. Read the rest at Schole’ Sisters and let them wonder…. Filed under: Classical Education, Guest Writing [...]

[...] do you ensure that wonder is woven into the atmosphere of your ordinary days? Filed under: Classical Education, Home Education Tagged: guest, wonder [...]

[...] up a generation ready to step into the Great Conversation. Filed under: Charlotte Mason, Classical Education, Home Education, Living Learning [...]

[...] on good ground and our children may know, love and serve God. Filed under: Charlotte Mason, Classical Education, Home Education [...]

[...]  And it is just as unhealthy intellectually as it is physically. One of the unique gifts of a Charlotte Mason education is that it meets the child EXACTLY where that child IS. Not where we are.  Not [...]

[...] a Bunny, your child is ready for the more sophisticated poetry of the Psalms or Shakespeare. {Charlotte Mason, Home Education, p. 161} It can be discouraging – your perfect little basket of books, a [...]

[...] offers an illustrative key!  Charlotte Mason lays the foundation through a liberal education of GOOD and worthy books and methods.   [...]

[...] thinking about how to ensure that the atmosphere of my home, and the Classical principles and Charlotte Mason philosophy and method we live, and especially the books we read and experiences we enjoy [...]

[...] , Scott, Dumas and the rest. {John Senior, Essay: The Thousand Good Books, The Restoration of Christian Culture} And in case you wondered how important real, touchable experiences like those spent [...]

[...] can grow there. In letting them wonder, we do nothing less than our part in rebuilding Christian culture.  Without wonder there is snobbery, selfishness, a sort of anti-empathy.  You can look [...]

[...] at the beginning of a day that we are literally, brick by brick, rebuilding a Christian culture through our very ordinary days. Read the rest at Schole’ Sisters and let them [...]

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[...] (one of which was, The Destruction of Sennacherib which he learned as part of the Integrated Humanities Program), and recounting how the written form insisted upon in the Integrated Humanities [...]

[...] the foundation. Nascantur In Admiratione – let them be born in wonder.  (Motto of the Integrated Humanities Program, University of Kansas, 1966-1982) [cow_johnson general_float="right" [...]

I’ve shared with all of you that we are pursuing some remodeling plans. It’s exciting…and daunting. As I planned our booklists this summer, I k [...]