by Michelle Morrow | Sep 27, 2019 | A Living Education, Charlotte Mason, Lesson Ideas
Book of Centuries – Why Use One? Charlotte Mason wanted children to learn history and to understand the flow of history. She used timelines, history charts and this curious Book of Centuries. Her plan was for children to see history holistically. Not as just a...
by Michelle Morrow | Oct 2, 2018 | A Living Education, Australian Homeschooling, Charlotte Mason
How do we go about supplementing the Australian Curriculum to give our kids a rich education? The Australian Curriculum doesn’t teach much history, geography, science or literature in the primary years. Children are only required to learn simple facts and...
by Mary Collis | Aug 28, 2018 | A Living Education
Thoughts on Reading the Classics Recently a reader of A Living Education asked for an article on the place of reading the classics in a curriculum. A great many excellent articles have been written on this topic, notably one by Rob Shearer of Greenleaf Press. My own...