It's research time for me, and I've buried myself in deep. Between research online and Volume 1, I find my mind spinning with ideas for my family. There are many options for curriculum, from Ambleside Online to Simply Charlotte Mason, Truthquest History to Heart of Dakota. One website I have been devouring because of the emphasis on Jesus Christ and the affordability is Queen Homeschool Supplies.
Beyond sellers, though, are the ideas that I am reading. Forming good habits, the importance of nature studies, short lessons... all of it is fascinating. Most of it smacks right in the face of what I was taught in public school. I feel like I need to re-educate myself. So much of what I know about how children learn is wrong! I've struggled for two years with Laura, feeling like a failure when she doesn't understand. Even when she does learn, often it is with a poor attitude. She has no passion for learning. It's just what she "Has to do". And that fact may always be there. There are things that have to be learned. However, short lessons make the learning different. Even if it isn't her favorite, she can focus on it for a short period of time and then move on to a totally different area.
I found myself laughing last week. I tried to vary the subject order for Laura, just to mix things up the way Charlotte Mason recommends. It didn't work. Laura, my girl who doesn't like change, went through the list and did nearly everything in the same order as usual. So, we'll keep things this way and bring about slow change.
Fall Break has been a great time to curl up with reading, and pray through the new ideas and plans. As great as the ideas are that Charlotte Mason wrote about, I won't implement anything that I don't feel God is in.
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