What about this?

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  • September 19, 2009 at 9:32 pm
    amandajhilburn
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    Okay, one more time……I had a “light bulb moment” and have contacted Winter Promise to see if I can get a refund for the things we have not used 🙂

    If I can get a refund, and am able to sell some other things I will be able to buy what I want for LA! 🙂

    So I need an opinion of this set up:

    3rd grade daughter (age 9)

    Easy Grammar 3, Queen’s LL, Spelling Wisdom (dictation/copywork) , narration/notebooking for composition in history & science, lots of reading aloud

    2nd grade son (age 7)

    Queen’s LL, Queen’s copywork, narration from history & science, lots of reading aloud

    September 19, 2009 at 11:18 pm
    amandajhilburn
    Participant

    Bookworm:

    I am not sure if I PM right or not. 🙂 New at this.  I was thinking Spelling through Copywork or Copywork for Animal Lovers.

     

    Cindee:

    Thanks and I am hoping I can get the refund.

    September 20, 2009 at 4:50 am
    Cindie2dds
    Member

    Amanda ~

    I’m home, yea!  Keep me updated on what you do with your kids for LAs.  I would really like to know since mine will be there soon.  I could use some help from those who have gone before.

    ~CindieSmile

    September 21, 2009 at 2:57 am
    amandajhilburn
    Participant

    I will let you know when I get it planned a little better 🙂  I am going to read some more (CM orig. Vol. 1, then 6, 2,3 and 4 per a suggestion).

    I was able to talk to my husband tonight, and share some of these new ideas with him. He has been very supportive, and totally agrees with everything that I love about the CM method.

    The more I read and learn, the more excited I get. I have tried the classical method, and traditional too, but the CM method is the only method that suggests that you teach a child in ways that supports a Scriptual education. By that I mean, that it teaches the WHOLE child, not just filling their minds with facts, but training their minds, bodies and souls. There is no need for thinking that education has to be seperated into two different groups: secular and spiritual. They should mesh. This is the way that I want to teach my children.

    I have been a little hung up on what they should learn according to standards that are not meant to teach my children what I believe is important. Taking time memorizing a list of helping verbs in the first grade is not how I want to spend our precious time. There are so many other things for them to learn that will have eternal consequences.  When I read Philippians 4:8, I think it summerizes all the qualities of what a Charlotte Mason education represents.

    I want to fill my children’s minds with things that are true, honest, just, pure, lovely, of good report, full of virtue, and worthy of praise.

    Needless to say, I have a whole new outlook on education 🙂

    September 21, 2009 at 3:51 am
    Cindie2dds
    Member

    Amanda ~

    I couldn’t agree more.  I had this same “light bulb moment” when I first came to this site.  I bought Charlotte’s six volumes, to which I have had the exact same reaction.  I want the Bible to line up with History and Science on the academic side; but, more importantly, I want them to be nurtured and truly trained up the way Christ instructed since he has so mercifully blessed me with my angels. The true “wealth of children in Christ’s eyes” is one of my favorite nuggets I have gotten so far.

    I too have gotten a whole new outlook on education, and I have peppered my husband with all of these tidbits.  He even watched part of the DVD with me and agreed wholeheartedly!  I am so excited to have found something that truly sums up how I want to raise my children, not just educate them!

    By the way, have you read Masterly Inactivity and Education Is… on this website?  I printed them out and took them with me on my trip.  They were another blessing and encouragement to do this Christ’s way — thanks again, Sonya!

    Blessings~

    Cindie

    September 21, 2009 at 7:55 pm
    amandajhilburn
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    I have read Masterly Inactivity, but not Education Is.. as of yet. I plan on reading it soon. 🙂

    Wow! I feel like such a load has been lifted. 😉

    Amanda

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