Showing posts with label Reading. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Reading. Show all posts

Wednesday, February 20, 2008

3 Great Minds

I have been consumed in 3 great minds over the last couple of weeks, Macauley, Beechick and Mason. For the Children's Sake, Heart and Mind and the CM series volume 6 are prooving to be extremely benificial in the direction and current passion of my heart and mind :0). I am also amazed at how they are all coming together meeting eachother and conversing unknowingly; the saying is true: Great minds think alike. They have crossed eachother many times as I have gone from one book, to the other, to the other wading in 3 intellectual and very spiritual minds who's passions alike are all intwined around the Maker of the 3 subjects discussed of mind, heart and education.

I began reading the CM series in Charlotte Mason's orginal wording before I realized that there was a paraphrased version in Modern English, it has been a lot easier for my mind to decode all of her thoughts. I was reading her series with a dictionary by my side and a continual pause and reflect patteren, slowly obtaining information but not sure how much I was actually retaining able to reproduce it in my own words as I repeat it to my husband, know what I mean? So the paraphrased version has been a wonderful blessing to my mind and my time, though I like to look back at the original for the exact wording.

If anyone has any helpful information on Charlotte Mason's philosphy of education I would be delighted to gain your resources. What are you reading that has been benificial to you?

Thursday, February 14, 2008

A Reading Bug


Superman has been bitten by a Reading bug. He loves to read, enjoys it and there is no pushing coming from me. He picks it up at almost any chance and even "almost" chooses it over playing with his friends. He isn't there yet though :-). He is enjoying The Magic Tree House Space guide and Midnight on the Moon. Today after he read 2 chapters in Midnight on the Moon he very enthusiastically came in and told me all the details of Annie and Jack and their accidently trip to the moon.
I am one happy Momma!