pAsk any parent of a high school student how much they spend on groceries and you will be reminded of a young adult’s healthy appetite. Teens require food and lots of it. Their bodies are growing at a phenomenal rate, and they need plenty of nutritious food to fuel that growth. High school students also require food for their minds. Just as the teen years are not the time to starve your child’s body, so they are not the time to skimp on what you feed your student’s mind and heart. These years should be a natural continuation of what…/p

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pOnce upon a time, a traveler was passing through a town. He was tired and thirsty, so he thought he would stop and rest a bit by the fountain in the town square. He was just enjoying the last drops of a drink of cool water, when he caught sight of three stone masons across the way, hard at work. Curious, he approached the first stone mason and inquired, “What are you doing?” The first stone mason glanced up at the traveler, wearily wiped the sweat from his brow, and grumbled sullenly, “I am cutting this stone.” The traveler turned…/p

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pYou want to give your student interesting and specific narration prompts for each chapter he reads, but sometimes you just don’t have time to pre-read all of the books on the schedule. Or maybe you have time but you’re not quite sure how to raise the bar on the types of narrations you are asking your older students to give you. Or perhaps baby #10 is on the way and you would just appreciate any help you can get. We understand. That’s why we are happy to announce Narration Notecards. These handy, customized cards are easy to use. Read aloud…/p

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pIf you have a student who is old enough to be doing written narrations, you may have run into this dilemma: “I want my student to spell names and places and events correctly in his narration, but I’m reluctant to allow him to look back at the chapter to make sure of those spellings. It would be too easy for him to ‘review’ as he scans the pages for the words he needs. How can I encourage correct spelling without placing temptation in his way?” My friend Crystal came up with a great solution. She took the idea of highlighting…/p

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pFor many years we have longed for a truly Charlotte Mason math curriculum. But since none was available, we settled for finding programs that at least included some CM components. So you can imagine how excited we are to announce The Charlotte Mason Elementary Arithmetic Series! The name holds much history and significance. The—Author Richele Baburina has invested years of research and study to uncover exactly what math concepts Charlotte taught, when she taught them, and how she taught them. This is the real deal. No more searching for a somewhat-Charlotte-Mason-style math program. This is the one that is Charlotte…/p

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pWe’re hearing so many good things about Charlotte Mason’s way of teaching math! Parents tell us about improved attitudes, renewed interest and excitement, plus a solid understanding of arithmetic. Min Hwang’s experience is especially encouraging. Here is her Happy Results math story. Tears of frustration, rote memorization, tedium and dread—these were what filled our math lessons. And that was just me. There were plastic manipulatives to lay out. There were worksheets to complete. There were lesson manuals to fumble through, word for word. I had no foresight because I did not have the big picture. I was simply dependent, day-by-day,…/p

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pIt is 9:30 A.M. and my daughter is sitting in a brown chair in my office. She is ready for our school time. Though she is 19 now, we still home school, for she enjoys it—as witnessed by the fact that she is sitting in that chair waiting for me. And part of our work every day is Charlotte Mason elementary arithmetic. Ever since I read Richele Baburina’s comprehensive work on how Charlotte taught math, and especially since I saw her demonstrate the methods, I’ve been using that approach with my daughter. Yes, she is 19 years old, but with…/p

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p(Here is another great post from Richele Baburina, author of the Charlotte Mason math handbook, Mathematics: An Instrument for Living Teaching, and its corresponding DVD set, Charlotte Mason’s Living Math: A Guided Journey.) I picked up my car from the airport’s long-term parking lot and, anxious to see my family, determined to take an unfamiliar shortcut home. Road signs and street lamps quickly ended on the tiny mountain road. Cell-phone service was lost next, and soon, so was I. As I backtracked to almost the start of my route, Pippin’s warning to Frodo that “Shortcuts make long delays” sang in…/p

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p(We are pleased to present the following post by Richele Baburina, author of Mathematics: An Instrument for Living Teaching and its corresponding DVD set, Charlotte Mason’s Living Math: A Guided Journey.) Charlotte Mason elementary arithmetic lessons are primarily oral. Rather than being worksheet driven—with a child working a page of exercises—the actual writing of numbers and equations is used very sparingly for young learners. Let’s take a look at the first few lessons in elementary arithmetic and see how the reading and writing of digits are to be taught. 

In Charlotte’s schools, elementary arithmetic lessons were referred to as Numbers…/p

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pJust for a moment, throw out all of your memories of math lessons from your school days. Set aside the images and promotional explanations from that math curriculum you were recently researching online. And let’s start from scratch. If we were to design math lessons that would be an ideal fit for a young learner, what would they look like? Well, let’s think about a young learner. What is a typical six-year-old like? Most early elementary children I know like to move, have wobbly handwriting, are emerging readers, are concrete thinkers, have a great imagination. Now let’s build out from…/p

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