Charlotte Mason Nature Study for REAL Moms

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So glad you joined us today! The Charlotte Mason method is so amazing, yet so confusing at times :P Hopefully taking time out of your busy day to watch this video will be a blessing to you.
If you don't know me, I am the homeschooling mom of 15 children, married to my husband for 36 years, in love with the Lord Jesus. I have been a blogger since 2005 and sensed the need to move to vlogging.
You can still enjoy lots of posts I have done over at my blog, MomDelights.com. I offer lots of free stuff for you to download :) Here is the link:
momdelights.com/
You can also order lots of my materials already printed out in book form from Amazon.
The Lesson Book series; a Charlotte-Mason style unworkbook of sorts to use with the McGuffey readers or just about any living book:
The Lesson Book, Level One www.amazon.com/gp/product/197...
The Lesson Book, Level Two www.amazon.com/gp/product/197...
The Lesson Book, Level Three www.amazon.com/gp/product/197...
The Lesson Book, Level Four www.amazon.com/gp/product/197...
The Lesson Book, Level Five
www.amazon.com/gp/product/197...
The Record Book -- a simple way to record all of the learning you and your children enjoy each day so it counts! www.amazon.com/gp/product/198...
The Gentle Grammar Series: a stress-free approach to early language arts to help young children.
Level One
www.amazon.com/Gentle-Grammar...
Level Two
www.amazon.com/Gentle-Grammar...
Level Three
www.amazon.com/Gentle-Grammar...
Level Four
www.amazon.com/Gentle-Grammar...

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@carpenterswife28 9 ай бұрын

Yes!! Tickle the paper!What a brilliant way to teach! I do this with mine too, and we mostly just go on hikes or in the winter (we live in Michigan so there’s a lot of winter) we go to the botanical gardens or the zoo to draw water plants in the aquarium! ❤❤❤

@paperwhistletv 10 ай бұрын

Tickle the paper! So brilliant and practical. I appreciate your help with so many things, Sherry.

@betsycruz 5 жыл бұрын

You have 15 kiddoes!!!! Woah hats off to you Mama 🖤. Loved this video, thank you for sharing

@ciara6309 4 жыл бұрын

Thank you for sharing wonderful ideas and encouragement. Loved to see your children's notebooks.

@junipertree2601 4 жыл бұрын

Great advice! That apple barrel stuff isnt watercolor though. Its acrylic paint. You can use them in a similar way but you can't rewet them once they dry. You can also use them to layer like oils.

@motheringwithgrace8453 3 жыл бұрын

I absolutely love this video ❤️ Thanks for the helpful ideas😊

@kelquint472 3 жыл бұрын

Wow! Thank you for sharing all those ideas! I've been looking for samples and ideas on how to start with my boys ... one of which is very skeptical about drawing nature. I love the ideas of taping the leaves, etc. instead of drawing. Thanks for the encouragement!

@TheCrunchyCatholics 5 жыл бұрын

Helpful video! Thank you!

@liztefft5312 Жыл бұрын

Thank you! 😊

@MomDelights 11 ай бұрын

My pleasure :)

@betsycruz 5 жыл бұрын

You're amazing!! I am a realist too 🤭😂

@menafam 5 жыл бұрын

Hi Sherry! Thank you so much for your videos and blog! You’ve been such an encouragement to me! I was wondering if you knew of any cheap online resources for learning to draw/paint, etc. Some of my kids (and myself included) are reluctant because we lack the basic skills. I have never had time (with so many little ones -we have 10 kids) to go through an art curriculum. But if you happen to know of a good simple easy to use resource (especially videos) I’d love that! Thanks!

@MomDelights 5 жыл бұрын

Thank you for the sweet words, Jenny :). Actually, we don't rely on any art curriculum, etc. We pretty much just sketch and mess around almost constantly with just about every medium available. If we like it, we like it. If the kids want to learn more, they pretty much find out on their own via books we have on hand, the Internet, etc. I have found this is the best way--to go fearlessly and not worry if it doesn't always turn out right the first time. Just try and try until it does.

@tuathadesidhe1530 3 жыл бұрын

Yep practice makes it perfect - but - KZfaq, KZfaq has heaps of artists showing the basics of each medium.

@mamamia1297 5 жыл бұрын

We began homeschooling in 2001. We continued for about 9 years until I switched my kids ( we have 7) to an online school. It was not ideal but what worked for us and our kids at the time. Two of my children still do it. I’m an older mom (45) with two younger children , who turned 7 and 5 this fall. They are just starting out on their schooling journey . We don’t feel online school is right for them at this point, if ever. But I will be honest, today I was just thinking , Lord I just need some enthusiasm and motivation to do this. It’s just gone. Not there at all. What do I do Lord? Then your video popped up on my feed. The part about having a 6 year old that isn’t reading resonates with me. Except she’s 7. It’s really been discouraging me lately because I feel I’ve failed her. We know we don’t want to send them off to school but if we keep them home, I have to do something with them. Plus I have new grandbabies, one I watch twice a week. We started our 7 year old in much needed speech therapy this past Spring. She’s definitely improving and is starting to be able to sound out simple 3 letter words. I signed her up for an inexpensive homeschool art class once a month, and she does weekly Bible memory verses for Bible club at our church. I do a few minimal work book pages with her a week and that’s it. I know she’s probably behind most kids her age. It’s a little discouraging but she also has had difficulty with her speech, we struggled to understand her. I’m curious about the books you linked below what do the levels mean? What would be a level appropriate for her?

@MomDelights 5 жыл бұрын

Your dear daughter might very well be a "late bloomer," as some have put it. There is amazing potential in her, she just needs some patience in order for it to open up. According to the Moores (and other sources) there are multiple stories of children who started out slow but ended up on the top (think of Edison who's teacher thought he was a dullard and was sent home). The books in the list are based on the McGuffey readers series. If you go to my site, momdelights.com, you will find all sorts of information on these and how I use them. They are not grade-specific, but ability-specific. I hope this helps you--I have had many children who were late in starting but caught up with a vengeance later-on :)

@crystalmanteuffel8858 5 жыл бұрын

The only time you will have failed your daughter is if you gave up on her and stopped trying to teach her. I know so many moms who beat themselves up because their child isn't reading by age 5, 6, 7. That's actually still quite early for children to start reading and reading well. Be patient with her and yourself. I wouldn't start really getting "worried" until my child was age 10. Until then, go at her pace and enjoy the time together. If she is not solidly reading by 10 I would look into possible learning difficulties and provide whatever therapies or tutors she may need at that point. If you become overly stressed and she senses that or if comments are made to her that she should be reading already, it will be a discouragement and make the process harder. I highly suggest reading really great books with her. Have her sit next to you as you read and trail your finger along the page so she can hear the words and get a visual of them at the same time. Read fun picture books and thought-provoking chapter books. Take your time and just enjoy those read alouds.

@mamamia1297 5 жыл бұрын

Crystal Manteuffel Thank you! I appreciate the encouragement. I do try to remind myself that she will get it eventually. Her speech teacher has agreed she’s improved greatly but then points out more concerns with her grammar, when she speaks. So I wonder when will it get better?

@mamamia1297 5 жыл бұрын

Mom Delights Now that I’m thinking about it, it is very possible she is just a late bloomer. I had never really thought of it that way before. She has always seemed younger then she actually is. I believe she has a mild form of sensory processing disorder. Has always been very sensitive to certain clothes( won’t get into all of the details) and crowds, painfully shy, etc. She has improved so much though in that area. So it seems her sensory system is maturing. So imagine the rest will follow.

@tuathadesidhe1530 3 жыл бұрын

@@mamamia1297 in general I feel waiting until the child shows interest in reading is the better route to go - but especially with any speech and or neurological issues going on. My youngest has a number of neurological conditions - but with the verbal and oral dyspraxia even having been in speech therapy from the age of 2 he was nonverbal other than mum, no, and my at 5.5yrs old and they were telling me he was going to be one of the kids who never talk - above average intelligence, but the neurological speech disorder made him physically unable to talk. I know it's a leap of faith but I can't recommend the GAPS diet highly enough, it completely changed my son's life on every level, speech, SPD, eye contact, selective mutism, his ability to walk unaided up stairs - the really scary stuff that had him locked into his body, and not in control of his body - all of it either greatly improved or gone after doing the first phase of the GAPS diet - it was a week of hell I would gladly live through again for the benefit it has gained to my son. His 8.5 and only just starting to read - we don't sweat it, my 5 learnt to react at 3, 5, 12, 10, and now starting at 8.5 - but I went through the school system and I couldn't read till I was 16-17 and out of it. To me the entire point of home education is to meet the child's needs at *their* level in a nonstress way - reading or not by a certain age is only relevant in a schooling situation, it's not a sign of intelligence or failure - concentrate on her strengths and talents and reading will come.