My order arrived today!!!

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  • January 3, 2012 at 9:01 pm
    sbkrjulie
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    I am so EXCITED!!!! My Planning Your CM Education as well as Books and Things DVD seminar books arrived today in the mail!!

    Hubbie is taking the kids camping for the meteor shower tonight (2 am, Texan time I beleive) so I will have a quiet evening to myself and with a virtual Sonya Laughing LOL

    January 3, 2012 at 9:06 pm
    Tristan
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    Oh, I was just posting that I love the Planning one in another thread. I would love to get Books and THings sometime….

    January 3, 2012 at 10:56 pm
    Jenni
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    You know you’re a homeshooling mom when that sounds like a heavenly evening as it truly does to me! Smile

    January 4, 2012 at 2:51 am
    suzukimom
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    That is exciting!

    Yes, it sounds like a great evening!

    (My dh gave me a pretty good afternoon – I spent the afternoon playing cards with a friend away from all kids)

    January 4, 2012 at 5:35 am
    Wings2fly
    Participant

    I also have the planning series and would love to get the Books and Things. Let us know how you like it.

    January 4, 2012 at 3:58 pm
    sbkrjulie
    Participant

    It was a blessing-filled evening Laughing I watched most of the Planning Your CM seminar and took a lot of great notes. After homeschooling for 3 years and trying everything possible, CM is so simple yet effective. It just makes so much sense to teach in this manner.

    There is a lot I am reconsidering now Undecided but just feel at peace about using Charlotte Mason’s methods.

    Julie

    January 4, 2012 at 4:40 pm
    MelissaB
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    I really need to bite the bullet and buy the set.  I want it (should have asked for it for Christmas I guess) – I think it would really be beneficial to me.  Does it cover all years of schooling (K-12)?

    January 4, 2012 at 5:34 pm
    sbkrjulie
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    It is an overview of how to use the CM methods in your homeschool as well as some great ideas to implement those ideas.

    I guess that would make the answer a “yes”. It does not literally give you a schedule to work off of but helps you plan out your homeschool with the variety of CM methods.

    Hope that helps….

    January 4, 2012 at 5:39 pm
    my3boys
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    Books and Things has been a great addition to my SCM library of resources.  I’d like to have everything Laughing.

    January 4, 2012 at 6:23 pm
    sheraz
    Participant

    I enjoy the Books and Things as well.  Very encouraging to me…it can be simple and effective!

    January 5, 2012 at 6:36 am
    Wings2fly
    Participant

    How has Books and Things helped you?

    January 5, 2012 at 4:13 pm
    sheraz
    Participant

    Hi Sarah – Well, I have several things to say about this.  I have had a real struggle to unschool myself in a lot of ways…I love the bright cheerful things that are made for schoolrooms and kids today.  The colors really appeal to me and I love organizing them.  That doesn’t say much about how they teach or affect the kids does it?  Sometimes I “forget” who I getting the “stuff” for.  Tristan wrote this in her post this morning about this subject, so thought I’d put it here: 

    “Another thing that jumps to mind when I read the part you quoted is just how fake a learning environment a preschool or public school classroom is. Those truly isolate children in what someone has decided is a ‘child environment’ appropriate to the age of children in that room. Very limiting!”

    I have a house that I could make into a “school” or I can learn to use the REAL things around us to create this atmosphere that Charlotte was talking about.  I have hundreds of books, tons real-life supplies for different things, and a desire to teach my children and help them live up to their potential.  Often that seems overwhelming.  

    I got Books and Things last spring.  I spent the summer working to create my real-life environment – between gardening and canning.  It took me some time, but my friend who is starting to get into CM with me came over after I was done.  I showed her a few things I had changed and she gave me one of the coolest compliments I’ve ever gotten:  She said “you’ve turned your whole house into am atmosphere” – and only here will people understand what I am talking about.  lol

    I better understand how to choose my books, and how to use them.  I learned how to use what I have instead of always “coveting” the newest thing in the catalogs for school.  I also learned that it is very important to not kill my children’s interest in learning, and thus in life, by trying to avoid the 4 pitfalls Sonya explains in her last segment of the set.  

    It helped me to get the hows behind the how-tos in the All Day Seminar.  It helps me accomplish the motto Charlotte gave to parents “Education is an atmosphere, a disipline, a life”.  

     

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