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Episode 63: Listener Q&A #12
Episode 63: Listener Q&A #12
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Length:
30 minutes
Released:
Jan 13, 2017
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Podcast episode
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This Q&A episode of the Charlotte Mason podcast addresses such varied topics as introducing the Book of Centuries, dawdling and disinterested beginners, preschoolers participation, and transitioning students to independent reading. Listen Now: If you are seeing this message, please make sure you are using the most current version of your web browser: Internet Explorer 9, Firefox, Chrome "In the first place, never let the child dawdle over copybook or sum, sit dreaming with his book before him. When a child grows stupid over a lesson, it is time to put it away. Let him do another lesson as unlike the last as possible, and then go back with freshened wits to his unfinished task." (Vol. 1, p. 141) "That the claims of the schoolroom should not be allowed to encroach on the child's right to long hours daily for exercise and investigation." (Vol. 1, p. 177) "Form IIB has a considerable programme of reading, that is, not the mere mechanical exercise of reading but the reading of certain books. Therefore it is necessary that two years should be spent in Form IA and that in the second of these two years the children should read a good deal of the set work for themselves." (Vol. 6, pp. 181-182) "This habit should be begun early; so soon as the child can read at all, he should read for himself, and to himself, history, legends, fairy tales, and other suitable matter." (Vol. 1, p. 227) Made in the ... Books by Christine Price History of Everyday Things, Quennell Colonial Craftsmen, Tunis (and all his other books) A Museum of Early American Tools by Eric Sloane (and many of his other books) What People Wore, Gorsline (Contains affiliate links)
Released:
Jan 13, 2017
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Titles in the series (100)
Episode 1: Why Use the Charlotte Mason Philosophy: Emily Kiser of Living Books Library describes the purpose for this podcast series. Each of the three members of this discussion group introduces herself and explains how she became a homeschooling mother. Since the goal of this series is to explore the i by A Delectable Education Charlotte Mason Podcast