April 16, 2014

Building a Foundation of Number Sense PK-2 with Suzanne Bazak

Suzanne Bazak is one of the best educators that I know. I worked with her when I was a principal in Roanoke City Public Schools where […]
April 5, 2014

Seeing Children As Persons by Melody Poli

Homeschooling my children is a humbling experience. It should be. I was brought low when reading Mason’s ideas about the Sacredness of Personality. This idea slapped […]
February 16, 2014

Nature Study Field Trips for All Ages by Deborah Dobbins

“Nature Knowledge the most important for Young Children. –It would be well if all we persons in authority, parents and all who act for parents, could […]
February 2, 2014

Practical Suggestions For Narration by Carroll Smith

We end this series on narration for those new to Charlotte Mason with some practical suggestions. I hope these suggestions help teachers and parents to get […]
January 26, 2014

More Thoughts About Narration by Carroll Smith

We continue this week with another blog on narration. In this post I try to answer such questions as, is narration a fad; what are basic […]
January 19, 2014

Narration For The Newbie by Carroll Smith

The next series of Charlotte Mason Institute Blog posts on narration are a conclusion to what I started by in the summer. Narration, the practice of […]
December 8, 2013

Golden Nuggets and the Grand Conversation by Dr. Jennifer Spencer

This blog was originally posted by Dr. Spencer for the Willow Tree Community School. I have written before about how all of the pictures that we […]
December 1, 2013

Picture Talk: A Child’s Perspective on Bible Stores by Lori Lawing

Sadness. Heartbreak. Remorse. Agony. Regret. Anguish. Despair. Pictures speak! The children have viewed a painting called The Expulsion from the Garden by Masaccio c. 1424. After […]
November 10, 2013

“A thousand thoughts that burn come to us on the wings of verse.”* by Bonnie Buckingham

Did you know a great poet passed away in late August? No more poems from his pen. No more translations of epic Anglo-Saxon poetry. He was […]