When I taught fourth grade, I loved studying Henry Wadsworth Longfellow with my students. His poem, Christmas Bells, is both beautiful and so applicable to the tragedies in the world today. It was written during the Civil War, and he had lost his wife not too long before in a fire. His son had joined the war without his blessing, and was seriously … [Read more...]
How to Teach a Charlotte Mason Lesson
I keep getting added to unschooling boards on Pinterest, and unschooling lists on Twitter. People sometimes mistake the Charlotte Mason philosophy as some sort of unschooling, and I can't blame them for that! It seems like the concept of masterly inactivity is often described as a mother staying out of the way of her child's education. Yes, she … [Read more...]
