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 …
Beginning Brush Drawing
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 …
Nature Notes, part 2
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 …
Nature Notes, part 1
“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 …
Nature Notebooks: A Pageant of the Seasons
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 …
Nature Walks, Excursions, and Rambles – part 2
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. …
Nature Walks, Excursions, and Rambles – part 1
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 …
The Golden Hours
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 Value of Nature Study
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 …
Embracing the Method
I’ve had several opportunities over the last few years to lead workshops about Charlotte Mason’s method of science. Incredibly, there is so much to cover that even when I am …