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All-Day CM Seminar + LDTR
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I wanted to post here because I am excited. We have always homeschooled and like using unit studies with our 5 children. I just finished watching the All-Day Charlotte Mason Seminar this week, as well as the Laying Down the Rails workshop today. It was so encouraging. I really like a lot of CM’s methods and hope to begin incorporating them into our family’s education. I am just beginning to read Laying Down the Rails, and my husband will be watching the LDTR workshop with me this weekend after hearing me talk about it. He is very interested.
Is anyone else new to CM too? Or are there any unit study families who will be adapting CM methods to mix with their unit studies?
Tristan
PS. I want to say a big thank you to Sonya and the SCM Team. These resources as well as this website are a wonderful blessing to me! Thank you for all you do here.
Hi, we have been converting over since October. I was very eclectic doing some of every style but we included unit studies in our school. I actually used the unit study to gently switch us over to cm. We started with Module 6 in October. I chose our Unit study to be about the Civil War. We read about the historical facts, make civil war recipes, studied the medical knowledge available and what kind of care they had, and read poetry and listened to music written during the war. These things all came out of books we had about the civil war.
I loved the All-Day Seminar. I’ve always considered myself an eclectic/CM educator (we’re in our 14th year of hsing) but after graduating my oldest and starting over with two little boys, I wanted to solidify and put meat on my schooling. We use Five in a Row, which many say is CM and many say isn’t. I don’t really care. We love it and learn so much from it. When teaching writing I use IEW. It’s hands-down fabulous for us. I don’t worry about whether it fits with someone’s philosophy if it works for our family. But I love Charlotte’s approach and it is the foundation of our learning.
LDTR was a concept of Charlotte’s methods that I wish I had discovered years ago. I loaned out the book while we were in China but I called my friend and told her I want it back NOW. I’m going through it with highlighter and pencil and am in the process of beginning to lay down better habits for myself and my children.
So here’s a thank you to the SCM crew from me as well. You’ve helped me make educating my arrows so much easier.
We’re new to CM, too, but we’re also just going to start formally HSing this fall as our oldest is only 5. I thought we were going with completely traditional stuff until a couple of months ago when I discovered CM. I never could settle on anything before, and now I’m so excited to finally know what we’re going to do and have complete peace about it! I haven’t had the chance to watch any of the seminars yet, though.
RobinP – I think you make a good point. We really do a mix of things in our homeschool, from unit studies to an occasional textbook
. I love seeing what mix of methods works for each family and the individuals in a family. Off to read some more in LDTR. We’re buried in snow here and the kids are having some quiet time.
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