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.
A few months ago, I shared with you what Mason had planned for upper elementary science, and now I would like to talk to you about what she had planned …
I thought you might enjoy pondering this section of Charlotte Mason’s Parents and Children, as you enjoy the Christmas season: In these leveling days we like to think that everybody has quite …
Several years ago I decided I wanted chickens. Live ones, living in the backyard. I had been moving my family to a more traditional lifestyle, and growing my own food …
Does the science “lingo” used in Mason’s volumes and around the CM community confuse you at times? I thought I would take a few minutes to clarify some of the nature …
I am so excited to share this exciting news with you! Liz Cottrill and Emily Kiser, of the Living Books Library, have joined me to record a podcast about all …
I think many Charlotte Mason homeschoolers have been under the false assumption that Elementary Science means reading naturalists’ books in the morning and taking a nature walk in the afternoon. …
Early on in my family’s Charlotte Mason education, nature study time just meant going outside to see what we could see. There was no plan. I’m not knocking that way …
A quick search on the internet provided me with several sets of instructions for growing alum crystals, but none of them worked the way we had hoped. We kept ending …
Natural bodies are divided into three kingdomes of nature: viz. the mineral, vegetable, and animal kingdoms. Minerals grow, Plants grow and live, Animals grow, live, and have feeling. — Carolus Linnaeus, …
Every stone detective needs these things to work with: A knife or a steel file for scratching the stones, A piece of glass to make scratches on – get a …