Morning Time, or Morning Basket, as others call it because they usually gather all their materials for the activity in a basket, is not exactly a Charlotte Mason (CM) concept but is a common practice in homeschooling where a family gathers to tackle subjects they can do altogether. It is pretty much like a plenary […]
Copywork is how Charlotte Mason (CM) taught children how to write (handwriting or penmanship), and it is exactly what it sounds like, copying a text by writing it down by hand. And why not? Instead of requiring children to repeatedly write the same letter all over a page (this I remember doing in elementary), if
If you would ask my dear daughter (DD) how she learned to read, she would tell you that I taught her to. But that is not entirely true. I cannot take credit for it because I barely taught her how to read. I think she learned to read intuitively, all by herself. My DD was
