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		<title>Nature Study with Max: A Boy with Learning Difficulties by Deborah and HollyAnne Dobbins</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 30 May 2009 01:41:26 +0000</pubDate>
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“Then the flowers come, each shut up tight in the dainty casket we call a bud, as cunningly wrapped as the leaves in their buds, but less carefully guarded, for these ‘sweet nurslings’ delay their coming for the most part until earth has a warm bed to offer, and the sun a kindly welcome” (Charlotte [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=childlightusa.wordpress.com&blog=2313167&post=251&subd=childlightusa&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Beauty in a Postmodern World by Jennie McClellan</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 May 2009 00:52:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dr. Carroll Smith</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I read in the Fall/Winter issue of the Charlotte Mason Educational Review that the topic for the next Charlotte Mason conference is: Beauty. I have been mulling this idea in my head for several weeks trying to figure out what beauty in a Charlotte Mason context means. I&#8217;ve also been reading and listening to a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=childlightusa.wordpress.com&blog=2313167&post=228&subd=childlightusa&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>First Lessons in Nature Study by Jeannette Tulis</title>
		<link>http://childlightusa.wordpress.com/2009/05/16/first-lessons-in-nature-study-by-jeannette-tulis/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 16 May 2009 16:32:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dr. Carroll Smith</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[First Lessons in Nature Study: a CM inspired class for first graders in a homeschool co-op setting
First of all I must confess to borrowing the first part of my title from a very old book by Edith Patch who was a student of Anna Botsford Comstock of the Handbook of Nature Study fame. It is a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=childlightusa.wordpress.com&blog=2313167&post=223&subd=childlightusa&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Children are Born Persons and Persons have Needs by Tara Schorr</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 May 2009 20:43:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dr. Carroll Smith</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Upon ﬁrst hearing the foundational principal of Charlotte Mason&#8217;s philosophy, &#8220;Children are born persons,&#8221; I couldn&#8217;t have been less impressed.  It seemed like a statement of the obvious and a waste of paper to bother writing it down.  Now, however, it is the lens which I look through to weigh all other thought regarding the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=childlightusa.wordpress.com&blog=2313167&post=218&subd=childlightusa&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Kids Being Kings by Ted Trainor</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 May 2009 13:43:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dr. Carroll Smith</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Happy hearts and happy faces, Happy play in grassy places&#8211;That was how in ancient ages, Children grew to kings and sages.&#8221;~From &#8220;Good and Bad Kids&#8221; by Robert Louis Stevenson

A few years ago, the center piece of our backyard makeover in Atlanta was a mound of Georgia red clay.  To my children, however, the dirt pile [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=childlightusa.wordpress.com&blog=2313167&post=210&subd=childlightusa&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Reading – A Habit and a Delight by Dr. Donna Johnson</title>
		<link>http://childlightusa.wordpress.com/2009/04/26/reading-%e2%80%93-a-habit-and-a-delight-by-dr-donna-johnson/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 26 Apr 2009 06:44:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dr. Carroll Smith</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It’s finally spring in Minnesota. The end of the school year is fast approaching, and the news in my classroom is both good and bad. The good news is that books and reading have become a source of – in Charlotte Mason’s words &#8211; “interest and delight” for me and my students.  Living books capture [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=childlightusa.wordpress.com&blog=2313167&post=208&subd=childlightusa&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Rescued Daisy and Three Mason Applications: A Story from My Garden by Beth Pinckney</title>
		<link>http://childlightusa.wordpress.com/2009/04/18/the-rescued-daisy-and-three-mason-applications-a-story-from-my-garden-by-beth-pinckney/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Apr 2009 23:10:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dr. Carroll Smith</dc:creator>
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Three years ago, I rescued a sad looking plant from a neighbor’s kitchen window sill.  It had been a bright red gerbera daisy, blooming and filling her kitchen with color.  But after a few weeks of inattention, the plant began to wither and droop.  The soil in the pot got dry and crusty, resisting the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=childlightusa.wordpress.com&blog=2313167&post=201&subd=childlightusa&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Books for the 5th Annual Charlotte Mason Education Conference</title>
		<link>http://childlightusa.wordpress.com/2009/04/11/books-for-the-5th-annual-charlotte-mason-education-conference/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Apr 2009 12:36:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dr. Carroll Smith</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It’s time to start thinking about the ChildLightUSA 5th Annual Charlotte Mason Education Conference:
 “For the Beauty of the Earth”
(Information is available on the website, www.childlightusa.com )
 
“People are naturally divided into those who read and think and those who do not read or think….” C.M.
 
CLUSA conference goers have developed a custom of doing some preconference reading and sharing in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=childlightusa.wordpress.com&blog=2313167&post=198&subd=childlightusa&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Studies in the Art of Standing Aside by Laurie Bestvater</title>
		<link>http://childlightusa.wordpress.com/2009/04/04/studies-in-the-art-of-standing-aside-by-laurie-bestvater/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Apr 2009 02:36:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dr. Carroll Smith</dc:creator>
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While living in Korea, my son had the privilege of studying violin with a student of the great Shinichi Suzuki.  He was a lovely, unassuming gent of indeterminate years who often had my young son sit on his knee, who invited us for lunch at his home and took us on long walks.  At first [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=childlightusa.wordpress.com&blog=2313167&post=188&subd=childlightusa&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Rose by Another Name By Jennifer Spencer</title>
		<link>http://childlightusa.wordpress.com/2009/03/28/a-rose-by-another-name-by-jennifer-spencer/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Mar 2009 01:47:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dr. Carroll Smith</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In my last blog, I mentioned the clash of worlds in which I currently find myself:  A Mason elementary teacher working in a public high school.  My job as an instructional assistant gives me a great deal of time to observe and reflect on the ways in which my remedial students could benefit from a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=childlightusa.wordpress.com&blog=2313167&post=184&subd=childlightusa&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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