CM's elementary geography

Hi MissusLeata,

We did use Charlotte Mason’s Elementary Geography.  It is in the public domain if you want to take a look.  It is really a pleasant introduction to the study and includes poetry, stars, our world, seasons, longitude and latitude, points of a compass, plans of a room and of a town, bodies of water, and more.

It will also help a child with their later work in mathematics with ideas of distance, direction and time as means of measurement with pacing, observing the sun’s course, where shadows fall, etc.   The only things I added to it were looking at a map of our county following the study of a county in England, and turning some of our nature walks into geography walks based on the concepts introduced in Charlotte’s lessons.

Warmly,

Richele

Hi Bethanna,

Yes, this is one you may want to “share in the effort to know.”  There are some pretty cool activities going on in these lessons and they make for enjoyable family endeavors.  If I remember correctly, this was one of the first things she wrote and may have later bemoaned that she’d put in a list of questions at the end of each lesson.  We kept it to narration and I used a few questions for end of term exams.

Some lessons seem particularly well-suited to entries in the nature journals if you keep them.  In later years, that is where her students would have put astronomy, biology, architecture, etc. entries as well (about one every 7-10 days).

Best,

Richele

If you are considering using this resource mentioned above, you will want to see this free printable! It looks WONDERFUL. A kind blogger made this available for all of us!

http://unplugyourfamily.blogspot.com/2015/08/free-downloads-of-charlotte-mason.html#.V4E6TI7UD1j