This Charlotte Mason podcast episode is an immersion lesson for second and third grade literature. Specifically, this is the one literature book Mason never diverted from: Pilgrim’s  Progress.

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Notes of Lessons

Subject: Tales
Form: IA    Time: 20 minutes

OBJECTS:

I. To bring the scene of Christian and Apolyon vividly to the students’ minds.
II. To improve the children’s narration of Bunyan by detailed retelling in their own words.
III. To rouse the children’s admiration for the courage and faith of Christian against his foe.

LESSON:

Step I–Have the students recall details from the previous reading of Pilgrim’s progress, his preparations and location.
Step II–Rouse interest in the lesson by asking the children to think of a time when they wondered what they would do if they encountered a dangerous situation.
Step III–Read the story with feeling, stopping three times to allow the students to narrate each portion. (Pages 59-62)
Step IV–Draw the children to tell what they admire about Christian’s thoughts and actions in this
situation:
a. Encourage them to give details about weapons and strategy of Christian.
B. Get the children to tell what made victory possible.
Step V–Encourage the children to understand that his victory was not because of weapons and skill, but faith.
Step VI–Sum the lesson by reminding of the scripture, “Not by might, nor by power, but by my spirit, says the Lord.”

Pilgrim’s Progress, John Bunyan (Yesterday’s Classics edition)

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Charlotte Mason began foreign language study the first year of school and this podcast episode is a demonstration of two kinds of lessons in the First Form (first through third grade). Becca Buslovich steps in as the teacher in this immersion lesson, one who is not a native speaker or expert in French herself, to encourage parents who have little or no proficiency to equip themselves to teach their children in foreign language instruction.

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Notes of Lessons (1)

Subject: French (Link to Images used in Lesson here)
Form: I     Time: 10 minutes

OBJECTS:

I. To teach three new vocabulary words.
II. To increase the children’s ability to understand the meaning of the French language.
III. To help the children better pronounce French words.

LESSON:

Step I–Using a picture and gestures teach each new word, having children repeat the word in French.
Step II–Use the new word in a sentence, using gestures to insinuate meaning.
Step III–Have the children repeat the phrase.
Step IV–Have children point to the correct picture as teacher says the word or phrase.

Notes of Lessons (2)

Subject: French (Link to Images used in Lesson here)
Form: IA     Time: 10 minutes

OBJECTS:

I. To use a story and narration to increase the children’s understanding of French.
II. To increase the children’s ability to listen to longer passages in French.

LESSON:

Step I–Using a picture and gestures read the story, phrase by phrase.
Step II–Ask the children to narrate the French phrase in English.
Step III–Have the children repeat the phrase in French.

Hachette’s First Illustrated Primer

Masons Living Languages (Becca’s CM Foreign Language site full of resources)

Pictures used in the lessons can be accessed here

Cherrydale Press (Gouin Series)

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Picture Study Portfolios from Simply Charlotte Mason

This Charlotte Mason podcast is the first in our summer series of immersion lessons. Listen in while Emily teaches a Bible lesson and Liz and Nicole narrate in a simulated lesson, and afterward as they discuss some particulars relevant to Bible lessons for elementary children.

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Notes of Lessons

Subject: New Testament
Form: I     Time: 15 minutes

OBJECTS:

I. To increase in the students the love and knowledge of God.
II. To increase the student’s knowledge of The Parable of the Sower.
III. To give them a spiritual thought from the passage.

LESSON:

Step I–Read aloud, slowly and distinctly, Mark chapter 4, verses 1-20, The Parable of the Sower.
Step II–Ask the students to narrate the passage using as many of the words of the Scripture as possible.
Step III–Read aloud pages 134-135 of The Highlands of Galilee by Paterson-Smyth, asking the students to picture the scene as I read.
Step IV–Ask the students their thoughts and encourage a discussion of the passage in light of the commentary.
Step V–Have the students narrate once again the passage, including any observations or applications they may make.

“The method of such lessons is very simple. [1] Read aloud to the children a few verses covering, if possible, an episode. Read reverently, carefully, and with just expression. [2] Then require the children to narrate what they have listened to as nearly as possible in the words of the Bible… [3] Then, talk the narrative over with them in light of research and criticism. Let the teaching, moral and spiritual, reach them without much personal application.” (1/249)

Highlands of Galilee, Paterson-Smyth

Episode 105: Saviour of the World Immersion with Art Middlekauff

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This podcast episode addresses listener questions on applying the philosophy and method of Charlotte Mason. When do we teach typing? How to form good habits when disorder reigns? What to do with an only child? are today’s discussion questions.

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Home Education (Volume 1), Part III (Habit is Ten Natures); Part II (The Out-of-Door Life of Children)

The Education of an Only Child by Mrs. Clement Parsons (PR vol 12, p. 609)

Episode 79: The Early Years

Episode 108: Masterly Inactivity

This Charlotte Mason education podcast episode is a group interview with a most significant and influential person in a child’s life:  the fathers. Emily’s husband, Jono Kiser, discusses with four dads concerning their understanding, involvement, and role in the education of their children.

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“If mothers could learn to do for themselves what they do for their children when these are overdone, we should have happier households. Let the mother go out to play! If she would only have courage to let everything go when life becomes too tense, and just take a day, or half a day, out in the fields, or with a favourite book, or in a picture gallery looking long and well at just two or three pictures, or in bed, without the children, life would go on far more happily for both children and parents. The mother would be able to hold herself in ‘wise passiveness,’ and would not fret her children by continual interference, even of hand or eye––she would let them be.” (3/33-34)

The Chronicles of Narnia, C.S. Lewis (Please note, link is to the *wrong* order)

For the Children’s Sake, Susan Schaeffer Macaulay

The Idyll Challenge

Nancy Kelly’s Retreat

In a Large Room Retreat

Golden Hours of Delight Retreat

Charlotte Mason West Retreats

Art Middlekauff’s Call to Parents

Liz Cottrill’s Vision for Children Talk