This is a belated It's Friday post where I share snippets of what we've been doing in our Charlotte Mason High School curriculum. One of my daughter's favourite books this year is The History of the Ancient World by Susan Wise Bauer but because it covers so much, she finds it difficult to narrate, so … Continue reading It’s (not) Friday #4
Narration/Composition
Home Schooling in Lockdown
Just about everyone where we are is homeschooling these days, but not out of choice. I prefer to say that we are home educating because our situation looks nothing like school. We have been teaching our children for 28 years and it is a normal part of life that we don't think twice about, but … Continue reading Home Schooling in Lockdown
Plutarch's Life of Julius Caesar – a 'creative' narration
We've just finished Week 9 of Plutarch's Life of Julius Caesar using Anne White's very helpful study guide. The study of Plutarch would never have been on my radar (as I explained here) but I was persuaded to have a try, at least, when I read how highly his writing was regarded by … Continue reading Plutarch's Life of Julius Caesar – a 'creative' narration
Bits & Pieces from a Week of a Charlotte Mason Education with a 10 Year Old
Moozle generally gravitates towards poetry when it comes to narrating either Plutarch or Shakespeare. We started Plutarch's Life of Themistocles this term and these are two poetic narrations she did relating to what we covered in our reading: On a more lighthearted note... Free reading this week: The Silver Brumby, Silver Brumby's Daughter and … Continue reading Bits & Pieces from a Week of a Charlotte Mason Education with a 10 Year Old
Playing with Plutarch with the artful aid of alliteration
After I had read our Plutarch lesson & Bengy and Moozle had taken turns narrating sections, I had them both write out a number of words starting with the letter 't.' 'T' was the obvious letter to use as we're going through the life of Timoleon and just about everyone involved in the narrative has … Continue reading Playing with Plutarch with the artful aid of alliteration
Notebooks for Nature Study, Science, Bible, Poetry & Hymn Study
Nature notebook I've been sorting through my older children's homeschooling work and came across nature notebooks belonging to two of them, so I thought I'd share some of what we've done with various notebooks over the past 15 years. Two of the boys aren't represented here - I still haven't finished my sorting out yet.The … Continue reading Notebooks for Nature Study, Science, Bible, Poetry & Hymn Study
Written Narration Prompts for Reluctant Writers
These are some of the ideas I've used to get my reluctant writers writing. I've gathered ideas over a number of years and I can't remember which were from my head or someone else's so I apologise in advance if the idea was not mine. Sometimes I let my children choose from the list and … Continue reading Written Narration Prompts for Reluctant Writers
Narration/Composition
Narration is basically retelling what you've read or had read to you. I call it composition if it's a written narration. If it's some other form eg. a drawing, I call it a creative narration but they are all forms of retelling and are all valid. I thought I'd share some ideas … Continue reading Narration/Composition
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