“A love of Nature, implanted so early that it will seem to them hereafter to have been born in them, will enrich their lives with pure interests, absorbing pursuits, health, and good humour.”
Charlotte Mason; Home Education, vol.1, 71.
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We're even starting out with birds... what could be better?! We are studying birds right now! Don't tell my kids that though, I don't even think they know it! :) We do the directed study of nature VERY loosely. I like to teach them without them knowing it... it's fun!
All this discussion is for us mommies who need help! Some of the recent discussion includes, "What is a pin feather and where can I find one?" "Why are the female birds so drab and the males so important and flashy?" "How to identify the different kinds of feathers?" This is my favorite post today. And here's a link someone posted on soaring that will be really neat information for me since we have TONS of vultures around here...
Read this just posted this last week... Nature Study: An Integration of Disciplines by Deborah and HollyAnne Dobbins, on the ChildlightUSA Weblog: Supporting a Charlotte Mason Education Worldwide
*Ambleside Online year 0 is for kids before they are officially of-age to start an official AO year. CM suggests that in the first six years that the child should be free to explore, imagine and observe the world... even apart from formal schooling there is so much to learn!
“. . . the chief function of the child--his business in the world during the first six or seven years of his life--is to find out all he can, about whatever comes under his notice, by means of his five senses; that he has an insatiable appetite for knowledge got in this way; and that, therefore, the endeavour of his parents should be to put him in the way of making acquaintance freely with Nature and natural objects.”
Charlotte Mason (Volume 1, Home Education, pg. 96)
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