Explore "charlottemason" with insightful episodes like "S6E73: Music and Group Singing with Bethany Stuard", "S5E72: “Six Voices, One Story” with Donna-Jean Breckenridge", "S5E71: Reprise of "Christmas Memories with Lynn and Donna-Jean", Ep. 47", "S5E70: A Casual Chat with Cindy and Dawn" and "S5E68: The Beauty of Mathematics with Melissa Bair" from podcasts like ""The New Mason Jar with Cindy Rollins", "The New Mason Jar with Cindy Rollins", "The New Mason Jar with Cindy Rollins", "The New Mason Jar with Cindy Rollins" and "The New Mason Jar with Cindy Rollins"" and more!
Today on The New Mason Jar, Cindy and Dawn welcome back Donna-Jean Breckenridge, veteran homeschool mom, grandmother and member of the AmblesideOnline Advisory
Donna-Jean shares a little about how the Advisory met and went on to work together to create AmblesideOnline and a grew to have deep friendships along the way
Donna-Jean talk about how this book came to be and some of the challenges along the way
What do you see as the future of the Advisory and AO?
Our flesh the Word became, and dwelt with us, And we beheld His glory, as, of God, The only-begotten Son: we who believed Knew glory when we saw it, by the signs— Not of the pomp and majesty of Kings— But Grace, the touch of God, showed sweet in Him; And Truth, discerning all things, made Him simple, His glory saw we—full of grace and truth.
Charlotte Mason, from “Savior of the World,” Prologue to the Gospel according to St. John
Show Summary:
On this episode of The New Mason Jar, we bring you a replay of a special episode with Cindy’s friends Donna-Jean Breckenridge and Lynn Bruce, who has now gone to be with the Lord.
What did homeschooling look like around the Christmas holidays?
Why it is okay to take time off from your normal school work for Christmas celebrations
Why traditions are so important, possibly even more so as children grow older
What are some traditions that your family keeps from previous generations?
Handling changes and trauma as the years go by and still keep Christmas with courage
What are some Christmas “fails” that happened in your family?
Today’s guest on The New Mason Jar is Jeanne Webb, veteran homeschool of one daughter and former member of the AmblesideOnline Auxilliary, and her whole family are involved in the sciences
How Jeanne first heard about the Charlotte Mason philosophy
What make Charlotte Mason’s approach to science different from that of typical American science education?
What is the relationship of nature study to other areas of scientific study?
How do nature study and nature lore prepare children for the more formal study of science?
What Jeanne and her family did for nature study
Does a Charlotte Mason approach to science do enough to prepare students for higher education?
But the object of the Parents’ Review School is not merely to raise the standard of work in the home schoolroom. Our chief wish is that the pupils of the School should find knowledge delightful in itself and for its own sake, without thought of marks, place, prize or other reward; that they should develop an intelligent curiosity about whatever is on the earth or in the heavens, about the past and the present. The children respond and take to their lessons with keen pleasure, if they get even tolerably good teaching, and the want of marks, companionship, or other stimulus is not felt in those home schoolrooms where the interest of knowledge is allowed free play.
Today on the New Mason Jar, Cindy and Dawn welcome back previous guests Angelina Stanford and Timilyn Downey to cover some questions listeners had about Episode 60: The Building Blocks of Story
Is there an objective answer to the question “What is art?”
What do we mean when we say literature is art?
Why do we say fairy tales are the building blocks of story?
What is the danger of not giving children a foundation in myths, fairy tales and the Bible?
Is it ever too late to develop a taste for these stories?
What is the difference between historical fiction and literature?
How does a wide and varied literary education add to our understanding of story?
Let us take it to ourselves that great character comes out of great thoughts, and that great thought must be initiated by great thinkers; then we shall have a definite aim in education. Thinking and not doing is the source of character.
Today on the New Mason Jar, Cindy and Dawn chat with friends Angelina Stanford and Timilyn Downey about the building blocks of stories in relation to a Charlotte Mason education
How Angelina came to learn about Charlotte Mason
Why Timilyn values the building blocks of story so much
What are stories versus literature?
What is the difference between how modernity sees art and stories and how the medievals saw them?
What is wrong with the idea of literature as a mirror or a window?
Some metaphors for approaching story
Why are unit studies problematic in approaching a Charlotte Mason education?
How can you learn the language of literature so that you can teach your children?
Last but not least, the fact that the story does not turn on children, and does not foster that self-consciousness, the dawn of which in the child is, perhaps, the individual “Fall of Man.”
You need poetry for homeschool. It develops so many wonderful facets of your child's mind and there are many simple ways to add it! Find resources and show notes here: https://www.laramolettiere.com/poetry-for-homeschool/
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Welcome back to another season of the Well-Read Poem! In this series we will be reading six poems about writers, some of them well-known, some of them not as well known. Our aim in this season is to give listeners some insight into the lives, minds, and imaginations of authors long deceased, and some understanding of what they have meant to their fellow scribes.
Today's poem is “Edward Lear” by W. H. Auden. Lear was more than just a well-known nonsense poet, but was a talented painter and musician in his own right. Poem begins at timestamp 10:05.
Edward Lear
by W. H. Auden
Left by his friend to breakfast alone on the white Italian shore, his Terrible Demon arose Over his shoulder; he wept to himself in the night, A dirty landscape-painter who hated his nose.
The legions of cruel inquisitive They Were so many and big like dogs: he was upset By Germans and boats; affection was miles away: But guided by tears he successfully reached his Regret.
How prodigiuous the welcome was. Flowers took his hat And bore him off to introduce him to the tongs; The demon's false nose made the table laugh; a cat Soon had him waltzing madly, let him squeeze her hand; Words pushed him to the piano to sing comic songs;
And children swarmed to him like settlers. He became a land.