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every child

can have a beautiful education

and we can enjoy the journey

“[Children] must be let alone, left to themselves a great deal, to take in what they can of the beauty of earth and heavens; for of the evils of modern education few are worse than this — that the perpetual cackle of his elders leaves the poor child not a moment of time, nor an inch of space, wherein to wonder––and grow.”

Charlotte Mason in Home Education, 1886

we have homeschooled our four over a decade

thoughts from our homeschool

our children thrive best, and learn most, with freedom and creativity.

 

"In concentrating exclusively on teaching the child how to read, we have forgotten to teach him to want to read…somehow we lost sight of the teaching precept: What you make a child love and desire is more important than what you make him learn."

Jim Trelease

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2020-01-17T02:32:38-06:00

Jim Trelease

  "In concentrating exclusively on teaching the child how to read, we have forgotten to teach him to want to read…somehow we lost sight of the teaching precept: What you make a child love and desire is more important than what you make him learn."

 

"Children possess an unestimated sensibility to whatever is deep or high, in imagination or feeling, so long as it is simple, likewise. It is only the artificial and the complex that bewilder them."

Nathaniel Hawthorne Lenox, July 15, 1851

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2020-01-17T02:50:23-06:00

Nathaniel Hawthorne Lenox, July 15, 1851

  "Children possess an unestimated sensibility to whatever is deep or high, in imagination or feeling, so long as it is simple, likewise. It is only the artificial and the complex that bewilder them."

 

"Upon the knowledge of these great matters -- History, Literature, Nature, Science, Art -- the Mind feeds and grows. The person becomes what is called magnanimous, a person of great mind, wide interests, incapable of occupying himself much about petty, personal matters. What a pity to lose sight of such a possibility for the sake of miserable scraps of information about persons and things that have little connection with one another and little connection with ourselves!"

Charlotte Mason

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2020-01-17T02:56:28-06:00

Charlotte Mason

  "Upon the knowledge of these great matters -- History, Literature, Nature, Science, Art -- the Mind feeds and grows. The person becomes what is called magnanimous, a person of great mind, wide interests, incapable of occupying himself much about petty, personal matters. What a pity to lose sight of such a possibility for the sake of miserable scraps of information about persons and things that have little connection with one another and little connection with ourselves!"
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Free Spanish Language Lessons for Young Children

Free Spanish Language Lessons for Young Children

by grade· elementary· general· languages· preschool-kindergarten· subjects

Salsa Spanish offers free Spanish lessons for younger kids in Kindergarten and lower elementary.  Each lesson contains a video of puppets and costumed characters.  You, the teacher, do not need to know any Spanish to teach these lessons! A full teacher’s guide for each episode is available, free.   The lesson plans include scheduling suggestions and black line masters (drawings), correlating…
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Free Nature Illustration Course: Begins February 21, 2023

art· by grade· by interest· Charlotte Mason· college· creatively homeschool· high school· history· middle school· subjects

The University of Newcastle offers a nature illustration course once or twice each year. The first year the course came out, I took it alongside our teenager. We really loved it! The course covers botanical illustration, but goes so much deeper than just showing you how the teacher draws objects.  Instead, you are encouraged to draw the object as you see it!  Also,…
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Art Study: Adolphe Millot’s Butterflies (Papillons). Free Coloring Pages and Original Art to Download

art· by grade· by interest· elementary· general· high school· middle school· nature studies· preschool-kindergarten· printables· science· subjects

Scientist and artist Adolphe Millot illustrated many natural wonders, from minerals to birds, from insects to butterflies. As he was an epidemiologist, Millot was accurate in nature illustration. His paintings were used in encyclopedias in France in the late 1800s. These are Adolphe Millot’s papillons, or, butterflies. I created hand-drawn coloring pages from adolphe Millot’s Butterflies Adolphe Millot is one…
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free Shakespeare study guides

Free Shakespeare Study Guides for 13 Plays!

by grade· college· general· high school· history· literature· middle school· reading & writing· subjects

This is a great freebie, that keeps getting better:  13 free study guides on 15 different Shakespeare plays. Each study guides is about 40 pages each. WHAT ARE IN THE FREE SHAKESPEARE PLAY STUDY GUIDES? The study guides include historical information, Shakepeare’s language, and much more about each play. The illustrations are in full-color and the activities in the guides are engaging….
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make a paper globe from this free template

Create a Paper Globe for Learning Geography & Geometry: Free Template & Pattern

by grade· by interest· elementary· geography· high school· math· middle school· printables· subjects

We’re always searching for unique ideas for teaching. It’s rather easy to think of creative ways to teach geography: globes and maps are fascinating things. But teaching geography and geometry in one creative exercise? That takes a bit of ingenuity – or, an artist who also likes coding. Thankfully, the artist who created a paper globe template is also a…
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