Charlotte Mason Blog Carnival {end of summer edition}

Are you all ready for another spin around the carnival?!

We have lots of wonderful variety seeing as this time around the theme is 'Whatever Strikes Your Fancy'. Of course you will understand how perfectly fitting then that the photo decorations will be as whatever strikes my fancy. Probably flowers, because I love taking pictures of flowers. But then again, you never can tell... :) However, the first person to come up with *the one word I was thinking* when I put the pictures together, will win a prize! I have a pile of books that I've been itching to give away...

Fun.





Nancy Kelly presents:
"Degrees of Separation" or "Your Child's Future Sanity" & Avoid the Grooves - Shift That Paradigm (We get a double dose of Nancy this time around! yay!)

Barb presents:
Back to School - Making High School Fit Your Student & Homeschool Science: Things I Would Do Differently (and double Barb too!)





Ritsumei presents Nature: Puppies N Chicks

Shannon in WV presents Narration: You Mean It’s Not Just about a Book?





Michelle presents:
When to Begin Formal Lessons & Sharing Art &  What Is a Charlotte Mason Curriculum? & Are the Arts Important in Education?

(whoa! quadruple whammy!! Michelle'd win the prize for most posts if there'd been one!!)

Nikki Olivier presents A walk in the wetlands. "...falling in love with the outdoors!"





Shirley Ann Vels presents:
Appreciating Art - Appreciating Charlotte Mason's Method! & Fun, Sun, Water and a Bit of History to Boot! (yay! double Shirley!)

Lindafay presents Charlotte Mason Help: How We Organize Memory Work





Lanaya presents A Few Things I'm Learning From Miss Mason

Grace'n'Chaos presents Books & Things and Some Mother Culture





Denise presents The (Mathematical) Trouble with Pizza

Jenny presents Books & Things and Some Mother Culture.





Kathy Livingston presents Choosing Extra-Curricular Activities.

Tricia Hodges presents Lily Pad: A Pastels Tutorial.

Jeanne presents Folksongs in the nursery.





Serena presents Circle Time.

Sarah presents Setting Up Shop.

Chris McGinn presents Mondays with Miss Mason?Starting with ?A?.





At Fisher Academy Int'l, we haven't yet started school officially as we are just now really finishing up last year after our summer travels. We will be diving right into next year however, just as soon as we get to Peru (we school year round).

What are your plans? How many of you have started already? Will you start next week? Or later?

Everyone always asks, "How do you plan and organize a CM education?". So let's have a look...  
The theme of the next issue of the carnival is:  
Organization / Planning on 9/13/11

Suggested Reading:
PR Articles:
Concentration of Purpose in Education
Mental Equilibrium


PS. Do you have a guess for *the one word I was thinking* when I put together the pictures for this post? Leave a comment... and the first one to guess can choose a free book from my giveaway box. :)

Announcement, Announcement! A Carnival Announcement.

Hello there! There's something new in the air! Two fun things are coming soon.  Are you excited?

For one, the Charlotte Mason Blog Carnival will be up tomorrow, and it's been such a little while since the last one, I'm really looking forward to it, aren't you? :) We have 'whatever strikes your fancy' as the theme this time around, so if you haven't submitted your CM post yet, do it today before it's too late :)


If you need the CM blog carnival button, go ahead and steal this one ;)

Second, it's almost fall, which means for most of you school's starting up again in full force. For our family it means we have only two weeks left until we go back to Peru! We've had a momentous summer visit, and we're so thankful for all the opportunities we've had to meet with family and friends doing lots of fun stuff. I'm sorry for not blogging it, but when there's a choice to blog life or to live life, well... right. That's where priorities come into play now, do they not? :)


Our family at the Space Needle in Seattle! Yay!



I hope y'all have had a wonderful summer and that your fall will be beautiful too (in spite of the hurricanes). In the next few months as our family adjusts to life back in South America, the Charlotte Mason Blog Carnival will continue with a lineup of interesting yet hopefully challenging and practical topics. Please stay tuned for further info. If you have a blog, please consider hosting the carnival this coming year. If you are interested, send an e-mail to charlottemasonblogs (at) gmail (dot) com.


Here are a few pictures I just happen to have handy of myself with a few of my friends earlier this summer @ the Childlight USA Conference... :)

My friend Bonnie

...and Leslie

...and Cindy!

Every moment matters.
Enjoy.

:)

Charlotte Mason Blog Carnival: Science of Relations {vol1}

On what does Fulness of Living depend? What is education after all? An answer lies in the phrase – Education is the Science of Relations... What we are concerned with is the fact that we personally have relations with all that there is in the present, all that there has been in the past, and all that there will be in the future – with all above us and all about us – and that fulness of living, expansion, expression, and serviceableness, for each of us depend upon how far we apprehend these relationships and how many of them we lay hold of.                           vol.3 p.186

When we look at Education: the Science of Relations, I think many of us are either overwhelmed by the thought or else we have no idea what to make of the idea... it's an all encompassing philosophy of not so much education only, but a way of life! Building relations with a number of persons and things based on our interests and affinities is an enriching part of a CM education! Read on. :)

Science of Relations.

Lanaya presents Welcome to Your World

Shirley Ann Vels presents The Joy of Living in Far Lands...

amy in peru presents The Science of Relations.



Everything else Charlotte Mason.

Jay3fer presents Meeting the Masters: Van Gogh, Part 2

Gina presents Home Joys: Connections

Nature Study.

Nikki Olivier presents ....and finally, a Nature Club Walk!

Lynn presents Garden Science

Ann presents Birthday Picnic - Outdoor Hour Challenge #10

Narration.

Laura Grace Weldon presents Save Moments In A Memory Jar

Jimmie presents a 3-part series on Narration Basics: Expectations, From Oral to Written, Dealing with Problems



Thank you all for your submissions and comments!  Keep up the good work!
Submit your blog article to the next edition of the charlotte mason blog carnival HERE.

As we are approaching the end of summer, in celebration, the next CM blog carnival (to be posted, 8/30/2011)
Theme will be: anything goes! ;)
Until next time!

amy in peru.

Scinece of Relations.

My favorite gleanings from my readings on the subject:

“Education is the Science of Relations. The idea that vivifies teaching in the Parents' Union is that Education is the Science of Relations; by which phrase we mean that children come into the world with a natural 'appetency,' to use Coleridge's word, for, and affinity with all the material of knowledge; for interest in the heroic past and in the age of myths; for a desire to know about everything that moves and lives, about strange places and strange peoples; for a wsh to handle material and to make; a desire to run and ride and row and do whatever the law of gravitation permits. Therefore we do not feel it is lawful in the early days of a child's life to select certain subjects for his education to the exclusion of others; to say he shall not learn Latin, for example, or shall not learn Science; but we endeavour that he shall have relations of pleasure and intimacy established with as many as possible of the interests proper to him; not learning a slight or incomplete smattering about this or that subject, but plunging into vital knowledge, with a great field before him which in all his life he will not be able to explore. In this conception we get that 'touch of emotion' which vivifies knowledge, for it is probable that we feel only as we are brought into our proper vital relations.”

v3p224

“Children should have relations with earth and water, should run and leap, ride and swim, should establish the relation of maker to material in as many kinds as may be; should have dear and intimate relations with persons, through present intercourse, through tale or poem, picture or statue; through flint arrow-head or modern motor-car: beast and bird, herb and tree, they must have familiar acquaintance with. Other peoples and their languages must not be strange to them. Above all they should find that most intimate and highest of all Relationships, - the fulfillment of their being.

v3 p210

This is not a bewildering programme, because, in all these and more directions, children have affinities; and a human being does not fill his place in the universe without putting out tendrils of attachment in the directions proper to him. We must get rid of the notion that to learn the 'three R's' or the Latin grammar well a child should learn these and nothing else. It is as true for children as for ourselves that, the wider the range of interests, the more intelligent is the apprehension of each.”

v3p210

On what does Fulness of Living depend? What is education after all? An answer lies in the phrase – Education is the Science of Relations... What we are concerned with is the fact that we personally have relations with all that there is in the present, all that there has been in the past, and all that there will be in the future – with all above us and all about us – and that fulness of living, expansion, expression, and serviceableness, for each of us depend upon how far we apprehend these relationships and how many of them we lay hold of. 

v3 p186

Every child is heir to an enormous patrimony, heir to all the ages, inheritor of all the present. The question is, what are the formalities (educational, not legal) necessary to put him in possession of that which is his? You perceive the point of view is shifted, and is no longer subjective, but objective, as regards the child. 

v3 p187

Enjoy! :)