If you live anywhere near Louisville, KY, I’d love to visit with you at the CHEK Conference this Friday and Saturday! I’ll be teaching a workshop about Charlotte Mason & Nature Study and would love for you to attend. You’ll come away with oodles of practical ideas and be ready to hit the trails this [...]

Ah, it’s summer break and I’ve finally found some time to nourish “mother culture”.  Charlotte Mason encouraged momma’s to dive into living books, too!  If we’re truly encouraging the idea of a lifelong love of learning in our homes, then we must also love learning.  (I must admit that my “selfish” moments of “learning” are [...]

Welcome to the Charlotte Mason Carnival!  What joy it is to be back into the busy and boisterous season of spring again!  Birds calling, frogs croaking, bees humming and children laughing are all sounds that have made me smile so far this spring. Rest Stop #1 – CM Philosophy Nancy from Sage Parnassus shares how [...]

A few more questions have come up regarding how I organize and plan our unit studies.  You can find the first post at Unit Studies Revisited and the follow-up post at Unit Study Questions Answered.  As long as you keep asking questions, I’ll keep answering.  “To clarify, it sounds like you do one unit at [...]

Wow.  Through my email, there were a lot of questions about unit studies from my original post.  I’m glad because it helps me to know what needs to be clarified or expounded upon.  I tried to combine all the questions into major themes which you’ll see below.  Please feel free to keep asking questions, and [...]