We’re back for season 11 of the podcast! Listen to hear about everything that is new at A Delectable Education along with a unique opportunity to read Charlotte Mason along with us.
Listen Now:
Charlotte Mason, Volume 6 (Amazon) (Living Book Press – use code DELECTABLE for 10% off!)
ADE Vol 6, Chapt 10 Reading List
- 10 Minute’s Map Exercises
- Scansion Lessons – Extra Practice
- Literature Forms 3-4 (English Literature for Boys & Girls and Age of Fable)
- Citizenship Forms 3-4 (The Young Citizen’s Reader and Ourselves)
- High School Algebra demonstration lesson
- Form 1-2 Bible demonstration lesson
- A Method for the Madness: Organizing Home and School workshop
- Imagination, The Missing Ingredient workshop
- Conducting a Special Study workshop
- A Point or Two of Correction and Critique: Assessing Your Students’ Compositions workshop
- The Habit of Remembering workshop
- School Planning, One Bite at a Time workshop
ADE at HOME {Virtual} Conference (First weekend in February, access for 3 months following)
Every Moment Holy, Vol. 3, Douglas Kaine McKelvey
Emily
Today, after 10 years of podcasting, we’re going back to the basics and covering a Charlotte Mason curriculum. We will be following Charlotte Mason’s words and writings in Chapter 10 of Volume 6. Chapter 10 is called The Curriculum. So we have created a reading schedule that you can study along with us. So you’ll see the dates and the topic and the page numbers. And it’s usually very few pages per week.
So along with that, as I just said, each week, we are going back to a weekly podcast release schedule, which is a lot of work for us. But we’re getting excited about all of the things that we’re going to cover this week. We will also be doing our best to keep each episode short and to the point, very succinct.
So each subject or part of the curriculum is going to be a series of episodes. And we also have a new format. For the first time ever, you can watch us as we record these episodes. And you can watch along at A Delectable Education on YouTube. So we have a lot of new things out this summer. Nicole, would you share with us some of those?
Nicole
Well, I know how much everybody loves Jono’s scansion exercises and he has a second one coming out. So that is really big. And then Melissa Peterman is going to have year three of Swedish drill and also a new resource that is for scouting that is the tassels that the students in Charlotte Mason School would have used. And it gives us just a lot of really good direction and is updated for modern students. And gives some good direction for our scouting. We, Emily, mostly, has done forecasting for The Citizen Reader, Ourselves Book One, English Literature for Boys and Girls, and Age of Fable, which is gonna be really helpful to people. And she’s written map questions for the US, which I think are…
Emily
So those are for the 10-minute map exercises that people email me on the regular: “What do we do for the year?”
Nicole
We also have some new teacher training videos that I think are going to be really helpful for you. Two of them are demo lessons. There is a high school algebra demo lesson, which is excellent. I strongly encourage you to watch that. Even though it’s done with a class, but even if you’re doing it with your family, it’s super good. And then there is, Emily did a combined form one and two Bible lessons. So that’s really helpful. There’s also several workshops. We have Emily’s “A Method for the Madness: Organizing Home and School”. Nobody needs that. Yeah, we’re all together. Liz’s “Imagination, The Missing Ingredient”. So good. I have one called “Conducting a Special Study”. And then we have one by Morgan Connor, “School Planning, One Bite at a Time”. And I know this is coming out right when you’re probably like trying to get that together. That is super excellent.
“The Habit of Remembering” by Jessica Becker. Again, Jono has “A Point or Two of Correction and Critique: Assessing Your Students’ Compositions”, which I think will be just very helpful to people. Check all those out.
Emily
Liz, do you want to tell us about the upcoming conference?
Liz
Just looking ahead and it’s really just around the corner. Our sixth annual ADE at Home conference begins February 6th and runs all the content for you through May for your convenience so you can listen to any or all of it whenever you like. And our theme this year is going to be “Generous Hearts, Minds, and Souls”. So early registration begins November 28th and runs through January 15th. I’d also like to announce that at the book club, we will again have, I mean, at the conference, we will again have our book club. And I’m going to announce the selection for this year, not an ancient classic, but a relatively brand new book that is a treasure that we have discovered and love so thoroughly and just want everyone to join in with us. We will be reading Theo of Golden by Alan Levi. So get a copy and start reading so that you can join us then to discuss it and.
It’s always a really grand, enjoyable occasion.
Emily
Yes, I love that part of the conference so much. Super good book. And we’re all looking forward to rereading it very much.
Nicole
I’m trying to hold myself back until it’s a little closer to time.
If you are a Patreon member, or if you’re not and you want to know what we’ve got going on over there, we submit each one of us something every week, well, we take turns, one new thing a week for the most part. There are coupons, discounts, like early coupons for the conference. Liz writes articles that are just very encouraging, sharing book lists. You have a lot of strategy tips for both the home and the school room, how to get organized. I share a lot of nature study stuff over there. There is so much over there. You know, Patreon was…the idea behind it is it’s a way for you to support a podcast that is free. You know, we’re just giving you our content. But if you want to try to support us and encourage us in some way to sign up for that. But we really try to give back as much as we can. And it has just turned into a very robust community over there. So I would really encourage you to check it out.
Emily
And all of those teacher helps that you just mentioned, Nicole, that we, the three of us create, we release those on Patreon before they’re released to the general public. And we so appreciate our Patreon supporters feedback on those. They’re kind of like our beta testers. And we just really love them and appreciate them very much.
Emily
Thanks for joining us today. Next time, we will be diving right into Volume 6, chapter 10, and discussing the foundational principles that make a curriculum Charlotte Mason.
So I want to conclude this very first episode of Season 11 by reading a prayer from Every Moment Holy, Volume 3. This is a liturgy before teaching. So feel free to listen to this again before your first day of school if you haven’t had it already.
God who in wisdom laid the world’s foundation, remind me it is no trivial task to teach, to inspect and wonder, to discipline and discern, to see the world through the eyes of those still fresh in learning it, to show them nature as you made it, and invite them to know it more fully.
Teaching often seems summed up in mere grades and emails and papers and raised hands and disruptions, but really it is a feast, a community, a gift, a discovery of the world and its inherent value.
We see in teaching a divine act that forms and shapes, it weaves in all of history and matter and truth and goodness and offers it to students in a way which may guide their thoughts and their decisions and may change them for good. Amen.
