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Invitation to Join Us!

We are excited to announce the opening of our new
A Delectable Education Patreon Community!

As we discussed at the beginning of Episode 181, we have had many changes in each of our lives over the past few years. We have loved the privilege of sharing more about the Charlotte Mason Method regularly through the podcast, and occasionally at various conferences and events around the country. We especially love getting to meet (online or in person) many of our fellow Charlotte Mason geeks!

As we have contemplated how to move forward with our podcast given the increasing demands of our own circumstances, we have decided to open an opportunity for you to join us in our endeavor. Through Patreon, members of our community will pledge monthly support for Emily, Liz, and Nicole. In return, as a token of our gratitude and recognition of those of you who love to dig deeper into the details of this living method of education, we are releasing exclusive content just for our patrons!

This content will vary each month, but we think it will help encourage and equip you in your educational and parenting journeys. We appreciate all our listeners, regardless of their participation in the Patreon Community, and this content will in no way detract from the quality of material we present on the podcast. In fact, our patrons will enable us to continue studying and bringing the caliber of podcast content you’ve come to expect from the three of us. Our Patreon exclusive content are materials that don’t have a good outlet in the podcast medium.

We hope you will consider joining us! Just follow this link
(also found in the sidebar) to find out more.

Rejoicing in hope,
Emily, Liz, and Nicole

Episode 181: Sol Fa Immersion

Ms. Mason believed everyone could and should learn to sing. She employed the technique of the Sol Fa method to aid in this study. This week’s immersion lesson is a demonstration of the process with examples of two lessons in two different forms.

Listen Now:

The first Form 1 lesson
The second Form 1 lesson
The last lesson (Form 2)

“I should like, in connection with singing, to mention the admirable educational effects of the Tonic Sol-fa method. Children learn by it in a magical way to produce sign for sound and sound for sign, that is, they can not only read music, but can write the notes for, or make the proper hand signs for, the notes of a passage sung to them. Ear and Voice are simultaneously and equally cultivated.” (1/314-315)


Episode 155: Solfa: An Interview with Heidi Buschbach

Miss Mason’s Music Particularly this page with its Scope and Sequence and Resources

Fifty Steps in Sight Singing

Sol Fa Hand Sign Chart

Sol Fa Modulator

Episode 180: Picture Study Immersion

Have you ever wondered how Picture Study may change in the older Forms? Perhaps your Picture Studies have fallen into a rut and you’d like to bring more variety into these lessons. Join Emily and Nicole in today’s episode as they demonstrate one possible variation for this distinctly Charlotte Mason lesson. 

Listen Now:

Nicole’s Rough Sketch of the Tones

Episode 34: Picture & Composer Study

Episode 178: Plutarch Immersion

This week’s immersion lesson demonstrates a Plutarch lesson. Nicole and her two daughters, forms III and IV, share their classroom experience with us, which reveals why Miss Mason considered this to be such an instructive lesson for young people and why they enjoy it so much

Listen Now:

Plutarch Project, Volume 3, Anne White



Episode 27: PlutarchCharlotte Mason Geography Across the Forms Document with links to her Geography Readers