Discover the beauty of science and nature through living books, inspiring curiosity, deepening understanding, and nurturing a love for God's creation.
Discover the beauty of science and nature through living books, inspiring curiosity, deepening understanding, and nurturing a love for God's creation.
Discover the beauty of science and nature through living books, inspiring curiosity, deepening understanding, and nurturing a love for God's creation.
Since 2010, the Sabbath Mood Homeschool blog has been a source of encouragement and training for homeschool families wishing to implement Charlotte Mason's principles and practices.
The idea of keeping a nature notebook sounds so lovely, but for some people, the thought of making a nature painting is more than a little overwhelming! You may feel …
Miss Mason, in her admirable system at the House of Education, gets her students to bring back leaves and buds of trees from their walks, and to copy them in …
The idea of keeping a nature notebook sounds so lovely, but for some people, the thought of making a nature painting is more than a little overwhelming! You may feel …
In Home Education, Charlotte Mason referred to nature notebooks as nature journals. What is being recorded, however, is not a daily record of a person’s life, but a narration of …
“The pleasure and value of every walk or journey we take may be doubled to us by carefully noting down the impressions it makes upon us.” —John Burroughs A cornerstone …
Each of the aspects of nature study that we have talked about so far has focused on observation, but now we will begin looking at the expression of things observed …
In part one of this article, we began looking at how parents and teachers can lead a nature walk so that “satisfactory intellectual results” are encouraged. (Hart, PR 15, p. …
In The Parents’ Review and the L’Umile Pianta, we read many accounts of nature walks, excursions, and rambles. Some were descriptions of small groups going out, and a surprising number …
We are starting this series with the youngest of the children, so let’s consider what nature study looks like before formal school lessons begin. Don’t stop reading if you only …
The purpose of this series is to outline the subject of science, but to do so we must begin with nature study. Charlotte Mason emphasized that children cannot start their …