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Here are the songs I've compiled for our folk song and hymn study!  I'm looking forward to teaching these songs to my kids as they make a joyful noise!!! August Hymn Good Shepherd Of My Soul Folk Song We Shall Overcome September Hymn Because He Lives  Folk Song Cockles and Mussels October Hymn Like a River Glorious Folk Song Freight Train November Hymn All Hail the Power Folk Song The Green Grass Grew All Around

This section covers quite a lot of topics and there are multiple places online that give us more in-depth explanations and resources to help us implement what Charlotte Mason has expected of young children in the subjects of language arts.  After the study questions in each section, you'll find some helpful links to implement these principles in your homeschool!  Enjoy reading! pages 199-214 When should children learn to read? Discuss the method of Mrs. Wesley. What are ways you could teach the alphabet and introduce word making? Would you describe CM's explanation similar to the CVC/CVCe phonics approach to reading instruction? Discuss the benefits of prose over poetry. How is this steady progress different from the casual way children generally learn to read? Visit this page to find more resources and links to the first reading lessons given to children.   pages 214-222 Discuss how reading and spelling are not the same. What are the benefits of reading by sig

My daughter is 6 and although we have been doing some school this past year (her kindergarten) I have purposefully waited for official reading lessons until this year.  There is SO MUCH to say on the topic of teaching reading!  Before you continue with this blog post, I want you to....... GO READ VOLUME 1 PAGES 199-222. I will even make it easy for you.  Click this link and read online!  I really feel like the best thing you can do to prepare yourself for teaching reading is to go to the source of the volumes and chew on the ideas set forth by CM.  This is also from a Parent Review article that restates what is written in Volume 1. (If you are also interested in further study, the book CM references "Reading Without Tears" can be found here .) Now, to quote one of my favorite lines in this section: "It is not clear yet; suppose you tell me, step by step, how you would give your first reading lesson.  An illustration helps one so much." -pg 211 Tha

Although Baroque is not my favorite musical time period, I am really glad that we are revisiting the genre to study the music of Purcell!  One of the most famous musical "learning" pieces for kids is the Benjamin Brittan "Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra."  This collection of music guides children through all the instrument families and is based on the theme of "Rondeau from Abdelezer" by Purcell! If you are following the Ambleside Online schedule you will notice most of the pieces are for voice.  I do want to add a few instrumental pieces in with our composer studies to allow for some variation, but you may want to follow the program as listed on the AO website.  I believe that the CD they link is all vocal music.  And that is really what Purcell is known for - he is known as a "word painter" in his vocal music and was ahead of his time harmonically speaking in many pieces.  Without a knowledge of background in each piece suggested on

  I am in my preparation stage and love sharing materials that help make homeschooling easier for my friends!  To keep things in a quick and easily accessible place, visit the links below to download and print your picture study cards for each Term.  We follow the Ambleside Online artist schedule for our home and co-op.  I'm also including links to helpful websites for each artist! Term 1 - John Constable Term 2 - Johannes Vermeer Term 3 - John William Waterhouse It's the year of the Johns! (There's got to be a joke in there....LOL!)  While looking for some easy biography and historical resources for each artist, I did find that I really like how this website is organized: https://www.artble.com/ Each artist is represented within the website and most of their important works are listed with critiques and explanations of important features. If you need more information about how a Charlotte Mason artist study is implemented in your homeschool, I fou

I am not a native Tennessean but always felt drawn to the state even when I was a kid growing up in Michigan.  My grandma loved watching Hee Haw and the Grand Ole Opry and was a huge Minnie Pearl fan!  My first trip to the state was in 1992 to East Tennessee and over several other trips I landed in the state for good at 17 years old in 1997 and moved to the Nashville area in 2002.  I feel very blessed to have landed here after graduating college and I LOVE raising my kids in this part of the state.   As part of our homeschool curriculum, I taught a Tennessee history class and enjoyed several years of studying the history on my own! There are several public domain resources that I combined into a free guide that you can   download here .    Within the guide you will find a schedule of lessons that can guide you through learning about the history of our state.  Charlotte Mason lessons approach learning as a method, not a system so I am not detailing lesson plans of objectives, tests,