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| Simply Charlotte Mason All day workshop with my baby |
Homeschool convention season is upon us and I couldn't be more excited. I will be going to the big southeast homeschool convention in Greenville South Carolina later this week! But to warm up I started with as workshop on Charlotte Mason. I have heard a lot about this style of homeschooling but never gave it a second thought. It turned out to be a lot different than I thought it would be. If you yourself are not familiar with this style of homeschooling go
here they do such a good job of explaining it. I really felt empowered after spending all day learning how to relax a little and really let children do what they do naturally. I came away with a lot of good information.
It makes me giddy to think of all the things I am going to learn this week in South Carolina! I started applying some of Charlotte Masons ideas today in my home school and I have to say that the lady really knew her stuff! I purchased a living science book while at the work shop.
This is the book that I bought.
When I first started reading it I just knew that the older language style was not going to be appealing to my 8yr old, BUT tonight he said "mom are you going to read the next chapter tonight?" I was floored because my 3yr old asked the same thing. So I sat in a chair in the door way (something I picked up from another blog) and started reading. My son was wrapped and even my daughter was quite and eventually my child with special needs even calmed down. I could NOT believe the attention they gave me. I am going to continue to slowly switch my home school over to a more Charlotte Mason style and see how it works. I am just amazed at how energized I am after only one, workshop. I am probably just going to be busting after 3 days worth.
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| This was a display of living books for those of us (like me) who didn't know what that was |
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| My Aunt Laura and our new friend Marsha with our host Nancy in the back ground | | | | |
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Well I think you're going to have to get on Skype and chat me up about CM now. We've been going so hard since we got here that I feel like we've moved into an "unschooling" mode...there is so much to see and do and I KNOW they are learning lots, but my Classical Education mindset is straining to feel ok about things!
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Cool!! I've been saying that this year I'm "exploring my Charlotte Mason side..." I feel strongly drawn to Classical, too, but there's so much about the CM that I just can't let pass by. It's like a magnet. =) I'm still learning about it and fleshing out exactly where and how much we'll use it, but I'm totally drawn to living books and adding them in more and more each week!
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