What better way to enjoy the weekend than with a movie night and hot chocolate? Autumn is a wonderful time to enjoy some indoor activities as the weather begins to cool and the nights get chillier. Our family enjoys lots of delicious movie night treats but paleo pumpkin hot chocolate is a favorite! For our most recent movie night, we…
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Curriculum Picks for a Charlotte Mason Inspired 6th and 4th Grade
I can hardly believe that we’re entering another school year! I now have an official “middle grades” student. Yikes! They really are serious when they say that the days are long but the years are short. Our curriculum posts are always among your favorite posts yearly so we are sharing again the things we will be utilizing, with the caveat…
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Homeschool Planner – Creating a Delightful Plan for Your Homeschool
Planning for a Delightful Homeschool Year You are so ready! It’s going to be the best year ever and you know without a doubt that you can plan your homeschool. You sit down with your freshly printed homeschool planner pages, a steaming cup of coffee, and your favorite pen. It is time to plan the most amazing homeschool year ever….
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Arts and Theology – Using Beauty as a Vessel for Truth
Listen here: Resources: Theology and the Arts Home Education Mornings in Florence This Beautiful Truth Seeing the Form (Glory of the Lord) Vincent’s Starry Night and Other Stories: A Children’s History of Art The Purpose of Beauty in a Charlotte Mason Education To experience beauty is to experience a deep-seated yes to being, even in its finitude and its moments of tragedy, and such an…
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How Does Art Study Benefit Cognitive Development?
Today’s episode of Cultivating Grace is sponsored by: The Homeschool Garden Charlotte Mason Inspired Morning Time Plans for Busy Families Listen here: Charlotte Mason was Right about Art Art study is a beautiful part of the Charlotte Mason Feast. We already know how beneficial art study can be to our homeschool. For a quick review: Art study- Cultivates an appreciation…
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Homeschooling High School with The Homeschool Garden
“Are you going to homeschool through high school?” If I had a dollar for every time that question comes up! Parents are generally fearful of homeschooling high school, understandably. Include the fact that we follow Charlotte Mason inspired curriculum for high school, and we often leave people baffled. Why is that, you ask? It is hard for many homeschoolers…
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How To Easily Implement Charlotte Mason End Of Term Exams
Listen to this post here: “The schoolboy ‘crams’ for an examination, writes down what he has thus learned, and behold, it is gone from his gaze for ever: as Ruskin puts it, ‘They cram to pass, and not to know, they do pass, and they don’t know’ ” – Charlotte Mason While Charlotte Mason did not advocate the type of…
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How to Have a Valentine’s Day Homeschool Party
We love cooking together almost as much as eating together! Even with all our food allergies, we have plenty of wonderful things to eat. Today we are sharing our epic Valentine’s Day Breakfast and our delightful Valentine’s Day tea. And because we love all our dear readers, we are giving you a gorgeous set of Recipe Binder printables for you…
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Nature Study with the Great Backyard Bird Count
We love watching birds out our kitchen window. It makes mealtime lots of fun, too. We are going to be keeping a bird log a few days a week as part of our nature study learning. And we will be participating in the Great Backyard Bird Count this year! Keep reading to learn more about this fun February event. How…
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Charlotte Mason Principle 6: Education is an Atmosphere
Education is an Atmosphere Listen to this post here: Welcome, friends! Grab yourself a cup of tea as we dig deep into our next principle. Charlotte Mason Principle 6: Education is an Atmosphere. It’s one of my favorite principles and why I’m such a devoted Charlotte Mason advocate. Most of us have been indoctrinated with believing that children learn best…
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