Charlotte Mason Monday

Are you excited on Mondays to get started on a new homeschool week!? No? Well…sometimes we need a little boost. Mason Monday is my way of giving you that boost. I’ll be sharing details about Mason’s methods, quoting her wisdom, answering questions, and providing links to Mason users.

The Heart of Wisdom teaching approach is a combination of several teaching methods including some of Charlotte Mason’s methods (we embrace some and reject others). Mason was an innovative educator in England in the 1800s. Her unique methods are motivating. If you have a post or a question about Charlotte Mason’s methods please share in the comments.

• FREE Charlotte Mason E-book
  Education Is an Atmosphere, a Discipline, a Life, is a free ebook offered by SimplyCharlotteMason.com in the hope that it will encourage and equip homeschoolers. This book presents just three of Mason’s key ideas and gives real-life examples and applications so you can see what those ideas might look like in your home.
• Charlotte Mason’s Methods Organized into Four Steps
  It took six large volumes to contain Mason’s writings. This post gives you a good overview and explains how the Heart of Wisdom approach combines the best of Mason’s methods with four steps that teach to the four learning styles.
• Why I Like Charlotte Mason
  One homeschool mother’s reasoning behind using Mason’s approaches.
• What Do Charlotte Mason and Spurgeon Have in Common?
  Mother at Home’s blog brings up an important question about Mason. Mason was not perfect and bought into some worldly philosophies of her time. It’s important to understand her worldview and the mistakes she made. I have questioned some of choices about literature myself and came to the conclusion her outside discovery learning, copywork, book of the centuries, and other teaching methods are worth pursuing while at the same time her mistakes are something we can all learn from. I’ll be addressing this more on another Monday.
• How to Use the Handbook of Nature Study
  One family’s ideas on using Anna Comstock’s book Handbook of Nature Study as the textbook and the great outdoors as the classroom.
• Charlotte Mason Resources
  Books on the Charlotte Mason approach at discount prices from Homeschool-Books.com

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