What a glorious time of year!  In my part of the world, God’s creation is singing in brilliant colors and crisp notes.  In honor of His magnificent show, I thought I’d center the theme around bits and pieces of Autumn Beauty.  Enjoy the wonderful articles!

Nature Study

Julee from Abundant Harvest shares her family’s awesome nature study that came from an injured monarch in Nature Study – Butterfly.

Alicia from La Famille gives a great tutorial for making a dye from black walnut shells in Nuts About Dye!

Ritsumei from Baby Steps shares about her family’s recent trip to their local nature preserve in Critters and Moss.

Kris from At Home Science provides a nice list of living books and such for anyone planning to study rocks, soil or the earth in Geology Study Resources.

Barb at Handbook of Nature Study shares about one of her nature challenges in Outdoor Hour Challenge Autumn Series – Seasonal Weather.

Yours truly is sharing an article from Shining Dawn Books about Nature Study with a Toddler or Preschooler.

Art/Picture Study

Dana from Epi Kardia takes us on a how-to journey through picture study in Charlotte Mason Mondays – Picture Study.

I’d like to share a recent picture study resource review I wrote at The Curriculum Choice about Dover Art Cards as well as our latest artist study activities in The Thinker and Other Rodin Fun.

Living Literature

Keri from Sunny Scholars helps unmuddy the waters when it comes to finding good literature that’s also friendly to beginning readers in Readers.

Amber from The Mommy Earth shares how she and her children enjoyed a cozy reading time together in Book Review: Five Little Peppers.

Kris from Science of Relations provides a set of living literature for our reading enjoyment that focuses on history in Westward Expansion: Santa Fe Trail.

Jimmie from Jimmie’s Collage reminds us that even older children enjoy picture books, and she’s found several goodies in Picture Books for Middle School.

Science/History

Heather from Maple Hill Academy shares how she has implemented a family time line in Book of Years.

Barb from Harmony Art Mom shows us how she uses a traditional teaching text with CM flair in Apologia Physical Science with a CM Style.

Super Odds and Ends

Penny from Our Crazy Adventures in Autismland! gives us a glimpse into habit training in Bedtime Routine into Habit.

Richele from Under the Golden Apple Tree reminds us of the importance of leisure time in Masterly Inactivity.

Johnna from Living Charlotte Mason in California is the perfect ending to a cool weather carnival as she shares about her family’s adventure making Autumn Butternut Soup.

Thank you so much for visiting the Charlotte Mason Carnival today!  Richele from Under the Golden Apple Tree will be hosting next time on November 17th.  I hope you’ll consider submitting an article!  Until next time, I hope your autumn days are spent in thankfulness to our Creator for His bounty!

Since we’re all so busy with summer fun, I’ve made the post descriptions short and sweet!  Enjoy!

• Even though we haven’t been doing “official” school, our summer has been filled with lots of hands-on learning as we work in the garden and harvest the veggies, take extra field trips, play board games in the shade of the porch on a hot afternoon, and spend many lazy hours reading good books.  Here’s a peak into our very hands-on VBS…A Trip to Rome!

• Our Busy Homeschool shares how much fun writing in Colonial times must have been in her post titled Writing With a Quill and Ink.  She also shows how much fun a dinosaur dig can be in Paleontologists and Climbing.

• Homegrown Mommy shares a fun Biblical lesson her children presented and video taped in Here’s a Quick Lesson Plan for Samson and the Lion (Judges 14).

• Homeschool Bytes put birthday party plans in the hands of her daughter in Give Kids Money and a Budget – Tuesday Tips.

• Home4Skool shares how she and her children have been creating their own structures in Making Domes.

• ToddlerCraft shares a simple, but fun idea for little ones in Learning About the Ocean.

• Talking to Myself gives a very unique idea for getting children to cooperate in Studying New England – Part 2.

• Roots and Wings shows you very clearly how to make a homemade planter in Topsy Turvy Tomato Tutorial.

• School For Us shares a super hands-on artist study in Henri Matisse and Icarus.

• Harmony Art Mom’s entire family had fun in Sculpey Projects – Great Summer Creative Fun.

• Schooling Memoirs made a lesson from Story of the World come to life in Mummy’s.

• Mountaineer Country celebrated our country’s independence in hands-on style as she shares in Our 4th of July.

• Leaving Footprints has a wonderful hands-on idea for *moms* of preschoolers in Preschool Activity Box.

Thanks for visiting!  I hope you’re making wonderful summer memories!!  You can submit to the next Hands-On Homeschool Carnival (in August) by clicking here.

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