Charlotte Mason Poetry

<p>Editor’s Note: This week we continue our journey through The Changing Year. For more information on how to use this inspiring resource by Florence Haines, please see the episode entitled “A Walk in February.” We hope this week’s episode will give you interesting ideas for special studies, as well as a nudge to go outside …</p> The post <a href="https://charlottemasonpoetry.org/a-walk-in-september/">A Walk In September</a> first appeared on <a href="https://charlottemasonpoetry.org">Charlotte Mason Poetry</a>.

<p>In 1861, a nineteen-year-old was starting her first full-time job. She had just moved and was by all accounts feeling overwhelmed by her new set of responsibilities. She was a teacher and of course she had a lot to worry about. But her thoughts drifted not to all the work to be done without, but …</p> The post <a href="https://charlottemasonpoetry.org/the-story-of-scale-how-meditations/">The Story of Scale How Meditations</a> first appeared on <a href="https://charlottemasonpoetry.org">Charlotte Mason Poetry</a>.

<p>I consider myself an ardent follower of Charlotte Mason’s principles, and sheepishly, I confess that I have been known to audibly react as she reaches out through her volumes. Whether to give a sigh of relief at the grace imparted or a grunt of dismay at the conviction roiled up inside, I say what I …</p> The post <a href="https://charlottemasonpoetry.org/the-promises-of-poetry/">The Promises of Poetry</a> first appeared on <a href="https://charlottemasonpoetry.org">Charlotte Mason Poetry</a>.

<p>Editor’s Note, by Amber Johnston In January 1919, a writer identified only as M. A. W. wrote an article for the Parents’ Review addressing how and why poetry should be taught. What struck me while reading the author’s thoughts was how timely the 100-year-old observations are for parents and educators today. An argument is made …</p> The post <a href="https://charlottemasonpoetry.org/on-the-teaching-of-poetry/">On the Teaching of Poetry</a> first appeared on <a href="https://charlottemasonpoetry.org">Charlotte Mason Poetry</a>.

<p>Editor’s Note: This week we continue our journey through The Changing Year. For more information on how to use this inspiring resource by Florence Haines, please see the episode entitled “A Walk in February.” We hope this week’s episode will give you interesting ideas for special studies, as well as a nudge to go outside …</p> The post <a href="https://charlottemasonpoetry.org/a-walk-in-august/">A Walk in August</a> first appeared on <a href="https://charlottemasonpoetry.org">Charlotte Mason Poetry</a>.

<p>Antonella Greco speaks with Maeva Kosse of Charlotte Mason France about applying Charlotte Mason’s philosophy to the French homeschooling milieu.</p> The post <a href="https://charlottemasonpoetry.org/a-living-education-in-france/">A Living Education in France</a> first appeared on <a href="https://charlottemasonpoetry.org">Charlotte Mason Poetry</a>.

<p>Editor’s Note: The August 1906 issue of The Parents’ Review announced that the next month’s issue would “be devoted to the subject of Religious Education in the Home”[1] and would include, among other articles, a paper on “Teaching Children to Pray.” Charlotte Mason was the chief editor of The Parents’ Review, and she often solicited …</p> The post <a href="https://charlottemasonpoetry.org/teaching-children-to-pray/">Teaching Children to Pray</a> first appeared on <a href="https://charlottemasonpoetry.org">Charlotte Mason Poetry</a>.

<p>Editor’s Note: Helen Emma Wix was a “torch-bearing”[1] graduate of Charlotte Mason’s House of Education. She was born in 1882 in Sydney, Australia and left this world one hundred years later in 1982.[2] She graduated from the House of Education in 1903[3] and by 1910 was serving as a governess.[4] She then served for a …</p> The post <a href="https://charlottemasonpoetry.org/scripture-teaching/">Scripture Teaching</a> first appeared on <a href="https://charlottemasonpoetry.org">Charlotte Mason Poetry</a>.

<p>Editor’s Note: This week we continue our journey through The Changing Year. For more information on how to use this inspiring resource by Florence Haines, please see the episode entitled “A Walk in February.” We hope this week’s episode will give you interesting ideas for special studies, as well as a nudge to go outside …</p> The post <a href="https://charlottemasonpoetry.org/a-walk-in-july/">A Walk in July</a> first appeared on <a href="https://charlottemasonpoetry.org">Charlotte Mason Poetry</a>.

<p>Art Middlekauff speaks with Amber Johnston of HeritageMom.com in which they discuss the relevance and application of Charlotte Mason’s ideas for mothers and families today. Links Recipe Versus Thought Ask Art #2 – What Happened?</p> The post <a href="https://charlottemasonpoetry.org/charlotte-mason-and-your-heritage/">Charlotte Mason and Your Heritage</a> first appeared on <a href="https://charlottemasonpoetry.org">Charlotte Mason Poetry</a>.

<p>Oxford defines an idyll as “an extremely happy, peaceful, or picturesque period or situation, typically an idealized or unsustainable one.”[1] It’s not a word I would normally be expected to know, even though I am familiar with the adjective form idyllic, which means “extremely happy, peaceful, or picturesque.” The only reason I know the noun …</p> The post <a href="https://charlottemasonpoetry.org/idyll-challenge-3/">Idyll Challenge 3</a> first appeared on <a href="https://charlottemasonpoetry.org">Charlotte Mason Poetry</a>.

<p>Editor’s Note: In 1921, H.W. Household was the Education Secretary for Gloucestershire, in which at least sixty-one schools[1] were following the Charlotte Mason method. Household was enamored with the method, but he was not content only to “preach to the choir”; therefore he wrote articles for two British journals: The Teacher’s World and The Journal of …</p> The post <a href="https://charlottemasonpoetry.org/teaching-methods-of-miss-charlotte-mason/">Teaching Methods of Miss Charlotte Mason</a> first appeared on <a href="https://charlottemasonpoetry.org">Charlotte Mason Poetry</a>.

<p>Editor’s Note: The August 1928 issue of The Parents’ Review was devoted to the 37th annual report of the Parents’ National Educational Union. It contained updates about every element of the PNEU, including the annual conference, the House of Education, the PNEU Reading Course, and the Gramophone Club. One section gave an update on the …</p> The post <a href="https://charlottemasonpoetry.org/principles-before-programmes/">Principles Before Programmes</a> first appeared on <a href="https://charlottemasonpoetry.org">Charlotte Mason Poetry</a>.

<p>Editor’s Note: This week we continue our journey through The Changing Year. For more information on how to use this inspiring resource by Florence Haines, please see the episode entitled “A Walk in February.” We hope this week’s episode will give you interesting ideas for special studies, as well as a nudge to go outside …</p> The post <a href="https://charlottemasonpoetry.org/a-walk-in-june/">A Walk in June</a> first appeared on <a href="https://charlottemasonpoetry.org">Charlotte Mason Poetry</a>.

<p>Editor’s Note: J. D. Rose worked in industry[1] until at some point in his life when he opted for a career change. He entered the Matlock College of Education and began an in-depth study of Charlotte Mason’s writings. While a student at Matlock, he had the opportunity to teach young people himself.[2] His unique background …</p> The post <a href="https://charlottemasonpoetry.org/the-educational-philosophy-of-charlotte-mason/">The Educational Philosophy of Charlotte Mason</a> first appeared on <a href="https://charlottemasonpoetry.org">Charlotte Mason Poetry</a>.

<p>Editor’s Note, by Dawn Tull Rose Amy Pennethorne (1875-1955) studied at Charlotte Mason’s House of Education and graduated in 1898. After that she “had several posts in Home Schoolrooms,”[1] during which time she was editor of L’Umile Pianta, the alumnae magazine of the House of Education. Eventually she became the Organising Secretary of the PNEU, a position …</p> The post <a href="https://charlottemasonpoetry.org/the-teaching-of-geography-by-r-a-pennethorne/">The Teaching Of Geography, by R. A. Pennethorne</a> first appeared on <a href="https://charlottemasonpoetry.org">Charlotte Mason Poetry</a>.

<p>El artículo está disponible en español. We can only imagine how Charlotte Mason felt when she saw the positive response to her new book Home Education in 1886. But perhaps she was not surprised. Margaret Coombs noted that Mason’s “remarkable assurance … infuses the original version”[1] of her book. It seems that assurance was derived …</p> The post <a href="https://charlottemasonpoetry.org/the-story-of-parents-and-children/">The Story of Parents and Children</a> first appeared on <a href="https://charlottemasonpoetry.org">Charlotte Mason Poetry</a>.

<p>Editor’s Note: This week we continue our journey through The Changing Year. For more information on how to use this inspiring resource by Florence Haines, please see the episode entitled “A Walk in February.” We hope this week’s episode will give you interesting ideas for special studies, as well as a nudge to go outside …</p> The post <a href="https://charlottemasonpoetry.org/a-walk-in-may/">A Walk in May</a> first appeared on <a href="https://charlottemasonpoetry.org">Charlotte Mason Poetry</a>.

<p>About three years ago, while looking through the curriculum programmes in the Charlotte Mason Digital Collection (CMDC), my attention was drawn to the Geography section. Up to that point most of our geography study had involved looking up locations on a map before reading a chapter in our history books. That, and reading the books …</p> The post <a href="https://charlottemasonpoetry.org/geography-using-map-questions/">Geography Using Map Questions</a> first appeared on <a href="https://charlottemasonpoetry.org">Charlotte Mason Poetry</a>.

<p>Editor’s Note, by Dawn Tull At the 31st Annual Conference of the PNEU, Captain Benjamin Dooley Parkin was asked to “state in general a few of the basic principles and objectives of Geographical teaching, and in particular, the methods adopted by the Parents’ Union School to carry them out.” Parkin was the headmaster of the …</p> The post <a href="https://charlottemasonpoetry.org/the-teaching-of-geography/">The Teaching Of Geography</a> first appeared on <a href="https://charlottemasonpoetry.org">Charlotte Mason Poetry</a>.

<p>At Charlotte Mason events over the years I’ve met many dads who say they do not help with the homeschooling. It is not uncommon for a dad to attend a conference so that he can better support his wife, even if he has no intention of directly teaching his children. Sometimes these dads want to …</p> The post <a href="https://charlottemasonpoetry.org/now-that-dad-is-home/">Now That Dad Is Home</a> first appeared on <a href="https://charlottemasonpoetry.org">Charlotte Mason Poetry</a>.

<p>Editor’s Note: This week we continue our journey through The Changing Year. For more information on how to use this inspiring resource by Florence Haines, please see the episode entitled “A Walk in February.” We hope this week’s episode will give you interesting ideas for special studies, as well as a nudge to go outside …</p> The post <a href="https://charlottemasonpoetry.org/a-walk-in-april/">A Walk in April</a> first appeared on <a href="https://charlottemasonpoetry.org">Charlotte Mason Poetry</a>.

<p>Editor’s Note: In September of 1886, Charlotte Mason had just finished the “Introductory” for the first edition of Home Education, writing from Manningham, a neighborhood of Bradford.[1] The book would be published before the end of the year. One month later, the Bradford Geographical Exhibition was held.[2] Mason was invited to read a paper. She was …</p> The post <a href="https://charlottemasonpoetry.org/geography-as-a-means-of-culture/">Geography as a Means of Culture</a> first appeared on <a href="https://charlottemasonpoetry.org">Charlotte Mason Poetry</a>.

<p>Este artigo também se encontra disponível em Português. “For to understand one human being so completely that you feel his feelings and think his thoughts is really like gaining possession of a new world; it is gaining the power of living in another’s life.” (Charlotte Mason, Ourselves, Book I, p. 95) In the summer of …</p> The post <a href="https://charlottemasonpoetry.org/ourselves-nossos-corpos-nossas-almas/">Ourselves: Nossos Corpos, Nossas Almas</a> first appeared on <a href="https://charlottemasonpoetry.org">Charlotte Mason Poetry</a>.

<p>Editor’s Note: The July 1917 issue of The Parents’ Review was called the “Baby Number.” Each article treated a different aspect of education for the “early years,” children under age 6. One article was written by Charlotte Mason herself, some were written by long-time PNEU influencers such as Dr. Helen Webb and Ella Glover, and some …</p> The post <a href="https://charlottemasonpoetry.org/babies-habits/">Babies’ Habits</a> first appeared on <a href="https://charlottemasonpoetry.org">Charlotte Mason Poetry</a>.

<p>To the world many of us, as homeschooling mothers, have stepped into the shadows. The focus of our lives, in this season, is raising and educating our children. “I want” is replaced by “I must” as our desires are put aside to attend to the more pressing needs of our children. And yet, we are …</p> The post <a href="https://charlottemasonpoetry.org/what-hands-are-for/">What Hands Are For</a> first appeared on <a href="https://charlottemasonpoetry.org">Charlotte Mason Poetry</a>.

<p>Editor’s Note: This week we continue our journey through The Changing Year with a walk in March. For more information on how to use this inspiring resource by Florence Haines, see last month’s episode entitled “A Walk in February.” We hope this week’s episode will give you interesting ideas for special studies, as well as …</p> The post <a href="https://charlottemasonpoetry.org/a-walk-in-march/">A Walk in March</a> first appeared on <a href="https://charlottemasonpoetry.org">Charlotte Mason Poetry</a>.

<p>Grandma was visiting. (I’m Grandma.) I was staying at my daughter Sophia’s house. One misty morning she telephoned her husband when he was at work. My grandson and I couldn’t help overhearing. According to the neighborhood’s online community, two bear cubs were sighted in the vicinity. “That means a mother bear is somewhere nearby, too,” …</p> The post <a href="https://charlottemasonpoetry.org/truth-telling/">Truth Telling</a> first appeared on <a href="https://charlottemasonpoetry.org">Charlotte Mason Poetry</a>.

<p>Editor’s Note, by Richele Baburina The autumn landscape was a riot of color as Michael Allenby and his governess, Katharine Loveday, moved stealthily along the hedgerow until stopping at an expanse of trees shading the long narrow lane. The boy clambered up a tall sycamore and positioned himself across a large sturdy branch, peering through …</p> The post <a href="https://charlottemasonpoetry.org/brush-drawing/">Brush Drawing</a> first appeared on <a href="https://charlottemasonpoetry.org">Charlotte Mason Poetry</a>.

<p>Ice surfaces are a scarce resource, even in the Detroit area. Figure skaters compete with hockey skaters for access to this precious commodity. Junior skaters compete with senior skaters. And singles skaters compete with ice dancers. The quest for ice is so difficult that school hours are enticing. Many skating families choose to homeschool just …</p> The post <a href="https://charlottemasonpoetry.org/my-scheduling-journey/">My Scheduling Journey</a> first appeared on <a href="https://charlottemasonpoetry.org">Charlotte Mason Poetry</a>.

<p>Editor’s Note: Last month we shared the first chapter of Florence Haines’s The Changing Year, a book assigned in the PNEU programmes for many years. As we share the second chapter today, we thought it would be helpful to provide some information as to how this resource has been used by Charlotte Mason educators. I’ve …</p> The post <a href="https://charlottemasonpoetry.org/a-walk-in-february/">A Walk in February</a> first appeared on <a href="https://charlottemasonpoetry.org">Charlotte Mason Poetry</a>.

<p>Editor’s Note: In September of 1908, educationalists from around the world were invited to present and discuss their views at the first International Moral Education Congress in London. A notable delegate from America named Felix Adler will be familiar to those who have read chapter 10 of Charlotte Mason’s Parents and Children. Interestingly, Adler argued …</p> The post <a href="https://charlottemasonpoetry.org/moral-instruction/">Moral Instruction, by Charlotte Mason</a> first appeared on <a href="https://charlottemasonpoetry.org">Charlotte Mason Poetry</a>.

<p>Editor’s Note, by Dawn Rhymer Asking our children to narrate is deceptively hard. It seems like such a simple question: “Tell me what you heard.” How can something so simple possibly end in tears, disappointment, a sense of failure, and even anger? As I have spoken on narration over the past four years, my greatest …</p> The post <a href="https://charlottemasonpoetry.org/the-method-of-narration/">The Method of Narration</a> first appeared on <a href="https://charlottemasonpoetry.org">Charlotte Mason Poetry</a>.

<p>Editor’s Note: In her final volume, Towards a Philosophy of Education, Charlotte Mason summarized the nature work assigned to children of Form II: They are expected to do a great deal of out-of-door work in which they are assisted by The Changing Year, admirable month by month studies of what is to be seen out-of-doors. …</p> The post <a href="https://charlottemasonpoetry.org/a-walk-in-january/">A Walk in January</a> first appeared on <a href="https://charlottemasonpoetry.org">Charlotte Mason Poetry</a>.

<p>El artículo está disponible en español. In 1885, Charlotte Mason was a published author who had written several books on geography, but not on the general topic of education. Nevertheless, she had gained a great deal of experience from teaching at the Davison School and the Bishop Otter Memorial College. She had also read many …</p> The post <a href="https://charlottemasonpoetry.org/the-story-of-home-education/">The Story of “Home Education”</a> first appeared on <a href="https://charlottemasonpoetry.org">Charlotte Mason Poetry</a>.

<p>Editor’s Note: One way that Charlotte Mason revolutionized education was by taking seriously the fact that a great portion of our thinking is “automatic.” She wrote: Thought is, for the most part, automatic. We think, without intention or effort, as we have been accustomed to think, just as we walk or write without any conscious arrangement …</p> The post <a href="https://charlottemasonpoetry.org/lifes-decisions/">Life’s Decisions</a> first appeared on <a href="https://charlottemasonpoetry.org">Charlotte Mason Poetry</a>.

<p>Editor’s Note: From time to time I am asked about the place of creative writing in a Charlotte Mason education. It turns out that in the days of “Aunt Mai’s Budget,” creative writing took a most vibrant and visible place. “Aunt Mai’s Budget” was the special children’s section of The Parents’ Review which ran from …</p> The post <a href="https://charlottemasonpoetry.org/a-visit-to-winterland/">A Visit to Winterland</a> first appeared on <a href="https://charlottemasonpoetry.org">Charlotte Mason Poetry</a>.

<p>Editor’s Note: By the time the May, 1917 issue of The Parents’ Review went to print, planning for the upcoming “Baby Number” was well underway. In that May issue, Henrietta Franklin wrote, “We are anxious to compile a list for publication in the July (Baby) number of the Parents’ Review. Suggestions should reach me before …</p> The post <a href="https://charlottemasonpoetry.org/the-religious-training-of-children-at-home/">The Religious Training of Children at Home</a> first appeared on <a href="https://charlottemasonpoetry.org">Charlotte Mason Poetry</a>.

<p>In the introduction to her devotional that accompanies the Gospel of John, Charlotte Mason penned these words: All important things are simple, and I often bear this in mind as we go about our days, whether we are gathered at the kitchen table for lessons or taking to the halls of our local art gallery. …</p> The post <a href="https://charlottemasonpoetry.org/all-important-things/">All Important Things</a> first appeared on <a href="https://charlottemasonpoetry.org">Charlotte Mason Poetry</a>.

<p>Editor’s Note, by Maria Bell In 1896, the PNEU recommended a book which remains in publication today, A Manual of Clay-Modelling: “The instructions are very clear and good, the plates admirable, and the list of suggested models is exceedingly helpful to the teacher. The preface, by Mr. [T.G.] Rooper, deserves great attention as setting forth …</p> The post <a href="https://charlottemasonpoetry.org/artistic-perception/">The Training of the Artistic Perception</a> first appeared on <a href="https://charlottemasonpoetry.org">Charlotte Mason Poetry</a>.

<p>Editor’s Note: Elizabeth Agnes Smith was born in 1884[1] and graduated from the House of Education twenty years later.[2] She was active in the alumnae association,[3] and in 1911 she married the Rev. Richard Bevan Pyper.[4] In 1912 the couple had their first child, followed by a second in 1915.[5] Elizabeth passed along her enthusiasm …</p> The post <a href="https://charlottemasonpoetry.org/the-child-in-the-garden/">The Child in the Garden</a> first appeared on <a href="https://charlottemasonpoetry.org">Charlotte Mason Poetry</a>.

<p>Editor’s Note, by Richele Baburina In 1909, the ink barely dry on her diploma from the University of London, a young woman by the name of Irene Stephens traveled north to join Charlotte Mason’s House of Education.[1] Her role at Ambleside was twofold—with a degree in mathematics and astronomy, she would serve as Lecturer in …</p> The post <a href="https://charlottemasonpoetry.org/the-teaching-of-mathematics-to-young-children/">The Teaching of Mathematics to Young Children</a> first appeared on <a href="https://charlottemasonpoetry.org">Charlotte Mason Poetry</a>.

<p>Editor’s Note: The July 1917 issue of The Parents’ Review was the “Baby Number,” dedicated to giving parents guidance for the early years. Charlotte Mason called upon several trusted thinkers and friends to contribute articles discussing activities for children younger than age six, when “definite lessons should begin.”[1] To treat the topic of books for …</p> The post <a href="https://charlottemasonpoetry.org/reading-in-the-nursery/">Reading in the Nursery</a> first appeared on <a href="https://charlottemasonpoetry.org">Charlotte Mason Poetry</a>.

<p>A question I commonly hear from home educators (both men and women) is how to integrate spirituality with the mundane tasks of home and work life. The Preacher of Ecclesiastes said that God has “set eternity in the hearts of men” (3:11, NIV). At some time or another we all crave a deeper and richer …</p> The post <a href="https://charlottemasonpoetry.org/from-the-cell-to-the-world/">From the Cell to the World</a> first appeared on <a href="https://charlottemasonpoetry.org">Charlotte Mason Poetry</a>.

<p>Editor’s Note: Charlotte Mason wrote in Home Education that “At six or seven, definite lessons should begin.”[1] What then for children younger than six? Is there a Charlotte Mason education for them? The question has prompted endless discussion and debate. Fortunately, Mason herself provided some clarity back in 1917. As the editor of The Parents’ …</p> The post <a href="https://charlottemasonpoetry.org/nature-in-the-nursery/">Nature in the Nursery</a> first appeared on <a href="https://charlottemasonpoetry.org">Charlotte Mason Poetry</a>.

<p>Editor’s Note: In 1836, the Home and Colonial School Society established a teacher training school modeled after the ideas of Swiss educational reformer Johan Pestalozzi. The school’s first teacher was Elizabeth Mayo, an educational reformer with the distinction of being the first woman ever employed in England to train teachers. Twenty-four years later, the college …</p> The post <a href="https://charlottemasonpoetry.org/art-and-handcraft/">Art and Handcraft</a> first appeared on <a href="https://charlottemasonpoetry.org">Charlotte Mason Poetry</a>.

<p>In my previous article I shared some reflections and conclusions from my research into music appreciation in the PNEU. Many of you do not need to be convinced to include music appreciation using Miss Mason’s methods. Instead your question is, “What do I do now?” How can we apply what we have learned from the …</p> The post <a href="https://charlottemasonpoetry.org/music-appreciation-in-the-21st-century/">Music Appreciation in the 21st Century</a> first appeared on <a href="https://charlottemasonpoetry.org">Charlotte Mason Poetry</a>.

<p>Editor’s Note: From time to time I am asked about apparent contradictions in Charlotte Mason’s writings. For example, we are told that narrations are to be in the child’s own words. And yet when it comes to Bible lessons, Mason says that while narrating, the child should be “keeping as close as he can to …</p> The post <a href="https://charlottemasonpoetry.org/the-teaching-of-scripture/">The Teaching of Scripture</a> first appeared on <a href="https://charlottemasonpoetry.org">Charlotte Mason Poetry</a>.

<p>Editor’s Note: Marjorie Evans graduated from the House of Education in 1899.[1] Six years later her first article appeared in The Parent’s Review, entitled “Beauty as a Factor in Education.”[2] The following year “[s]he, with Laura Faunce, started the first Girls’ P.N.E.U. Day School in London.”[3] Shortly thereafter she returned to the pages of The …</p> The post <a href="https://charlottemasonpoetry.org/picture-study/">Picture Study, by Marjorie Evans</a> first appeared on <a href="https://charlottemasonpoetry.org">Charlotte Mason Poetry</a>.

<p>Editor’s Note: Laura Faunce graduated from the House of Education in 1899. “Trained by Miss Mason herself, she made her principles her own and her lessons were delightful and appreciated by her pupils, as were the addresses which she gave from time to time to PNEU audiences.” One of those addresses we share today: our fourth in …</p> The post <a href="https://charlottemasonpoetry.org/how-we-teach-citizenship/">How We Teach Citizenship</a> first appeared on <a href="https://charlottemasonpoetry.org">Charlotte Mason Poetry</a>.