Category: Charlotte Mason

Calendar of Firsts, Charlotte Mason, Nature, Our Nature Journals, Spring

Calendar of Firsts 30 ~ 5 June 2016

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My Calendar of Firsts for this week:

  • A golden-pink quarter moon hung in a lavender-grey sky.
  • A Heron hunting over the local garden ponds.
  • Several Cinnabar moths.
  • My foxgloves are coming along nicely!
  • Two webs full of baby spiders.

What is happening in the natural world where you live?

Happy exploring!

Calendar of Firsts, Charlotte Mason, Nature, Our Nature Journals, Spring

Calendar of Firsts 23 ~ 29 May 2016

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My Calendar of Firsts for this week:

  • I added the Seasonal Blue Moon again for Monday; it was super-bright, and hung golden-pink in a navy sky.
  • A pair of Swallows dancing in the evening sky against a glorious sunset.
  • A baby rabbit waiting nervously to cross the road.
  • We also had lots of Goldfinches at the feeders in the garden this week.
  • Rose was very busy bug-hunting!

What is happening in the natural world where you live?

Happy exploring!

Charlotte Mason, Quotes

We All Have Need To Be Trained To See

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“We all have need to be trained to see, and to have our eyes opened before we can take in the joy that is meant for us in this beautiful life.”

Charlotte Mason

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Let Them Once Get In Touch With Nature

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Let them once get in touch with nature and a habit is formed which will be a source of delight and habit through life

Charlotte Mason

Charlotte Mason, Quotes

By Degrees

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By degrees the children will learn discriminatingly every feature of the landscapes with which they are familiar; and think what a delightful possession for old age and middle life is a series of pictures imaged, feature by feature, in the sunny glow of the child’s mind!

Charlotte Mason

Calendar of Firsts, Charlotte Mason, Nature, Our Nature Journals, Spring

Calendar of Firsts 21 ~27 March 2016

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My Calendar of Firsts for this week:

  • The first Bumblebee of the year flew past the window!
  • A huge ‘Lenten Moon’ hung heavy and golden in the sky
  • Lots of frogspawn in the pond, plus Rose found 9 toads (but mysteriously, no frogs! Perhaps they have finished spawning already?)
  • The opposite page in my journal this week is a map my big girl Elianna made for Rose; it is a treasure map to find her Easter eggs 🙂

My ‘colours’ for the week, along the top left hand page, where simply the blues and greys of this week’s sky.