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CM Educating 38 224
General Questions about CM – Wondering what Charlotte Mason is all about? Ask your questions here.
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Getting Started with CM – Discussions for those who want to begin using the Charlotte Mason approach.
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CM High School (& Beyond) – Discussions about using CM methods in the high school years and beyond.
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CM Specifics 0 0
Living Books – "Let their books be living books, the best that can be found in liberal supply and variety."
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Narration – "Let him narrate what he has read."
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History – "It is a great thing to possess a pageant of history in the background of one's thoughts."
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Geography – "The peculiar value of geography lies in its fitness to nourish the mind with ideas, and to furnish the imagination with pictures."
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Bible – "Their Bible lessons should help them to realise in early days that the knowledge of God is the principal knowledge, and, therefore, that their Bible lessons are their chief lessons."
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Math – "Let his arithmetic lesson be to the child a daily exercise in clear thinking and rapid, careful execution."
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Science & Nature Study – "Never be within doors when you can rightly be without."
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Foreign Languages – "[A foreign language] should be acquired as English is, not as a grammar, but as a living speech."
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Writing (Copywork & Composition) – "Composition is not an adjunct but an integral part of their education in every subject."
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Dictation (Spelling) – "The whole secret of spelling lies in the habit of visualising words from memory."
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English Grammar – "Grammar, being a study of words and not of things, is by no means attractive to the child, nor should he be hurried into it."
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Music & Art – "Let the children learn from the first under artists, lovers of their work."
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Handicrafts & Life Skills – "He practises various handicrafts that he may know the feel of wood, clay, leather, and the joy of handling tools, that is, that he may establish a due relation with materials."
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Literature, Poetry, Shakespeare – "The best thoughts of the best minds taking form as literature, and at its highest as poetry."
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Planning Your CM Education 5 20
Schedules – Sharing ideas and finding what works for your family during each season of life.
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SCM Curriculum Guides – Discussions, questions, and suggestions about our free Curriculum guide (for grades 1-12) and Early Years guide.
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CM Organizer – Share your tips, tricks, questions, and comments about our online planner and record-keeper designed specifically for CMers.
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Moms' Porch 3 16
Let's Chat – "Let the mother go out to play!"
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Habits – "The mother who takes pains to endow her children with good habits secures for herself smooth and easy days."
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Special Needs Children – "Truly parents are happy people—to have God's children lent to them."
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