Charlotte Mason Educational Retreat
Community * Motivation * Education * Reflection
A Gentle Challenge I have never before set a broad reading goal. For the past five years my goal has simply been to read. For the past two, I have actually kept lists of the books I have read. While I enjoy looking back on the lists and am thankful for all I have read, I think I’m ready for…
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Did you know that Plutarch was born, nearly 400 years later, in Chaeronea, the site of a very strategic battle fought by Alexander beside his father, Philip II of Macedon. I like to picture Plutarch as a young boy, re-enacting the battle with his chums, wiping out battalions of elite Theban soldiers over and over again in his imagination. Perhaps…
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1922 Time Table I would like to introduce a “new” time table to the community. You can find it here. I made it in the style of the transcribed 1908 Time Table for easy comparison. I do not share this table as something for us to copy in detail in our homes but simply as a tool to help us….
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This blog is the 2nd in a year-long series on clay modeling. The Clay With our manual in hand, it was now time to choose clay. I had a few factors which greatly influenced my decision. Cost. We have over 20 children in our learning community, so cost was definitely a factor. Curing method. We did not have easy access…
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I’m excited to announce that our registration is half full. That is mind boggling, humbling and causes me to reflect back on our growth over the past four years; I praise the Lord for the work he has done in the lives of families. 2016 We started in 2016 at The Hideaway, and we were only CME (Community*Motivation*Education). We contracted…
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A Year of Clay Modeling I will be spending the next year in our local cooperative community guiding the handicraft of clay modeling. I thought it would be interesting to journal our experiences and all those things we learn along the way. Hopefully, this record will help others as they try the handicraft of clay modeling. You can find…
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