S7E87: Co-ops and Charlotte Mason with April and Anna
The New Mason Jar with Cindy Rollins
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Show Notes
- We kick off this new season of The New Mason Jar with a conversation Cindy and Dawn had with homeschool friends April Weyland and Anna Whiteside
- How Anna and April first found out about Charlotte Mason
- How the transition to a Charlotte Mason curriculum worked for Anna
- Why April decided it was time for them to leave their old coop and start using CM principles
- How Anna started her own CM coop with a few more like-minded families
- How April tried to keep the curriculum challenging while balancing learning difficulties
- Anna's tips on carrying over these ideas into a coop setting that isn't strictly Charlotte Mason
No doubt we do give intellectual food, but too little of it: let us have courage and we shall be surprised, as we are now and then, at the amount of intellectual strong meat almost any child will take at a meal and digest at his leisure.
Charlotte Mason, Philosophy of Education Books and Links Mentioned:For the Children's Sake by Susan Schaeffer Macaulay
Know and Tell by Karen Glass
The 2024 Back to School Conference: Heart to Heart
Find Cindy and Dawn:Cindy's Patreon Discipleship Group
Mere Motherhood Facebook Group
Dawn's A Reasoned Patriotism website
But education should be a science of proportion, and any one subject that assumes undue importance does so at the expense of other subjects which a child's mind should deal with.
Charlotte Mason, Philosophy of Education