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Recitation or Interpretive Reading
Recitation or Interpretive Reading achieves several things. It helps you to learn to read aloud with feeling and meaning, clarity and volume and to practice making good eye contact when speaking. Each term my children have one poet they study and each week they are given a new poem to practice. They are to read this poem aloud with feeling, practicing clarity as well. Then once a week we get together and have Poetry Tea. Julie at Brave Writer gave me this idea. I make a few snacks along with some tea, of course, and that’s it. It’s not fancy, although a few times I went out of my way to do something extra special. My…
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Family Night Fun!
What a great time our family had this week playing a game together. My dh had the most fun… Ten minutes later he was still having the time of his life… And by the end of the game he had collapsed with the sheer delirium that comes when you’re having too much fun. I confess it was me that came up with this fun evening. (blush) If you would like to duplicate our rousing family night all you need is.. Monopoly + 7 noisy, you-have to listen to me, got-to-tell-everyone what to do, highly distractible players and you’ll be guaranteed similar results. Here’s to your family night…
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Studying History Using the Ideas of Charlotte Mason
History should be the study of the good and the bad whereby the child forms in himself principles in which he judges "the behavior of nations, and will rule his own conduct as one of a nation." The study should not be so full of dates for "how is he to put the right events in the right reign, when, to him, one king differs from another only in number, one period from another only in date?" Vol.1 pg. 280 Charlotte Mason thought it would be much better to let a child spend much time learning about one man than it would be to cover the whole history of a particular country. …
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Too Busy to Post :(
Due to time constraints, I won’t be able to post this week. Hope to be back on Monday.
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An Outdoor Game
When my oldest, who’s now 17, was about 6 we played a game called Red Indian. Not a politically correct name nowadays but it was called that none-the-less. CM wrote about it in Home Education on page 88. We play a variation that we made up ourselves. Here’s how we do it. As I’m meandering down our dirt road, the children run up ahead and hide in the bushes. They are to stay as quiet as they possibly can in hopes that I will not spot them. If I pass by where they are hiding without spotting them, they pop up and let me know it and then take off running to…
