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		<title>Eleanor M. Frost and the Narration of a &#8220;Picture Talk&#8221; &#8212; Part I by Carroll Smith</title>
		<link>https://childlightusa.wordpress.com/2013/05/18/eleanor-m-frost-and-the-narration-of-a-picture-talk-part-i-by-carroll-smith/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 19 May 2013 03:57:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This week for the blog post I would like for everyone to read a short portion of an article from the 1915 Parents’ Review, “Impressions of Conference work with Class II” by Eleanor M. Frost.  It is located from page 567 to 594.  I have typed it here for ease of reading.  Quite some time [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="https://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=childlightusa.wordpress.com&#038;blog=2313167&#038;post=1466&#038;subd=childlightusa&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Elsie Kitching and Repeated Narrations by Dr. Carroll Smith</title>
		<link>https://childlightusa.wordpress.com/2013/05/15/elsie-kitching-and-repeated-narrations-by-dr-carroll-smith/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 May 2013 23:40:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ChildLightUSA</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Philosophy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Charlotte Mason]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[ The question of repeated narrations and repeated readings has come up numerous times over the years since I have been studying Mason.  I want to address this topic in this blog post and I begin with Elsie Kitching’s comment in a 1928 Parents’ Review.  When researching the work of an educational philosopher and giant such as [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="https://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=childlightusa.wordpress.com&#038;blog=2313167&#038;post=1463&#038;subd=childlightusa&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Narration According to G. F. Husband by Carroll Smith</title>
		<link>https://childlightusa.wordpress.com/2013/05/05/narration-according-to-g-f-husband-by-carroll-smith/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 05 May 2013 05:41:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ChildLightUSA</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[A Charlotte Mason Education]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mental Labor]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Narration]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Charlotte Mason]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[nurturing the mind with great thoughts]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Over the next several weeks I want to write blogs on narration.  Narration is supposedly that simple little pedagogical tool that Mason used and that she called the act of knowing. Some educators wonder what all the fuss is about.  Narration simply cannot do what she claimed. I hope to convince otherwise through these blogs. [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="https://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=childlightusa.wordpress.com&#038;blog=2313167&#038;post=1454&#038;subd=childlightusa&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Observation 4 by Carroll and Andra Smith</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Apr 2013 14:36:03 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[A Charlotte Mason Education]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Paradigm Shift]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Science of Relations]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[paradigm shift]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[the Power of Observations]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In trying to grasp Mason’s understanding of education as the science of relations we are met with her profound views of observation and its essential interconnectedness with real knowing and relationship.  In past blogs I have pondered some ideas about observation, especially in the natural world and then in the last blog, Anna and I [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="https://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=childlightusa.wordpress.com&#038;blog=2313167&#038;post=1446&#038;subd=childlightusa&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Observation Number 3 by Carroll and Anna Smith</title>
		<link>https://childlightusa.wordpress.com/2013/03/24/observation-number-3-by-carroll-and-anna-smith/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Mar 2013 01:04:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ChildLightUSA</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[A Charlotte Mason Education]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Educational Reform]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Habit Formation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Imagination]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[My daughter, Anna and I batted around ideas about observation and why it is one of the foundational principles of a Mason education.  This blog is the result of that conversation. The past couple of blogs I have written have focused on the practice of observation as key to a Mason paradigm.  The first engaged [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="https://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=childlightusa.wordpress.com&#038;blog=2313167&#038;post=1442&#038;subd=childlightusa&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Nature Study in the City by Carroll Smith</title>
		<link>https://childlightusa.wordpress.com/2013/03/17/nature-study-in-the-city-by-carroll-smith/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 17 Mar 2013 20:27:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ChildLightUSA</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[A Charlotte Mason Education]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Beauty]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Culture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nature Study]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The focus of my last blog began with the importance of observation in the Mason educational paradigm.  However, it quickly evolved into the natural, organic way that observation can occur while growing up on a farm.  Eventually, I would like to get back to the topic of the power of observation and why it is [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="https://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=childlightusa.wordpress.com&#038;blog=2313167&#038;post=1353&#038;subd=childlightusa&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>My First Year at Willow Tree by Wendy Wilson</title>
		<link>https://childlightusa.wordpress.com/2013/03/10/my-first-year-at-willow-tree-by-wendy-wilson/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 10 Mar 2013 13:47:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ChildLightUSA</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Philosophy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Charlotte Mason]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[educational paradigm]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Trying to find the words that I want to say about the experiences of my first year at Willow Tree Community School is very hard because it requires me to express my emotions about my family, my students, and to reflect upon my past teaching experiences. I must start at the beginning. Four years ago, [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="https://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=childlightusa.wordpress.com&#038;blog=2313167&#038;post=1343&#038;subd=childlightusa&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>What Could Be: Reflections on Beginning a CM Community by Amy Fiedler</title>
		<link>https://childlightusa.wordpress.com/2013/03/03/what-could-be-reflections-on-beginning-a-cm-community-by-amy-fiedler/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 03 Mar 2013 13:03:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ChildLightUSA</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; When I was first introduced to Charlotte Mason, just over a year ago, it didn’t take much to draw me in.  As I began to consider her philosophy, I found myself letting go of many of the ideas and methods that had previously defined me as an educator.  Despite my degree and my previous [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="https://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=childlightusa.wordpress.com&#038;blog=2313167&#038;post=1341&#038;subd=childlightusa&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Meeting Mason: Baptism Into Relational Education by Kara M. Stalter</title>
		<link>https://childlightusa.wordpress.com/2013/02/24/meeting-mason-baptism-into-relational-eduction-by-kara-m-stalter/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 24 Feb 2013 15:18:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ChildLightUSA</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Philosophy]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[  From the waters of fantasy to nonfiction, I made the Cathartic leap from a college graduate in May with a B.A. in history and certifications in early childhood, elementary, and middle school math to that of a professional teacher a few days before Gillingham Charter School commenced for its 2012-2013 school year.  With an [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="https://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=childlightusa.wordpress.com&#038;blog=2313167&#038;post=1331&#038;subd=childlightusa&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Reflections on Observation, Farm Life, and Technology by Carroll Smith</title>
		<link>https://childlightusa.wordpress.com/2013/02/11/reflections-on-observation-farm-life-and-technology-by-carroll-smith/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Feb 2013 23:38:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ChildLightUSA</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Habit Formation]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[According to Mason, children have a high capacity for observation and a natural propensity for details.  She told the story of the father and son who, immediately after passing a store window, would take out a pad of paper and pencil and write down all the things they remembered seeing in the window.  The father [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="https://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=childlightusa.wordpress.com&#038;blog=2313167&#038;post=1246&#038;subd=childlightusa&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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