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...and how do you use it? Do you use this approach with your children that are beginning readers? How? Do you read to them? When does that stop? It seems to me this approach is a very good partner to montessori...
I'm interested in your thoughts on this...and by the way, i'm so blessed by all of your blogs...thank you, from the bottom of my heart.
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Jen has a fantastic post at her blog about Montessori, and in the last half, she talks quite a bit about how she uses CM and Montessori together:
Montessori Reflections
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Here are some thoughts on a Charlotte Mason-inspired early childhood language arts program.
I read to my children of all ages still, so never stop reading aloud. Charlotte Mason introduces the concept of narration orally. When you go out for a walk or you take a trip to the zoo or you read a story, ask your child to tell you all about it--as much they know. In the case of stories, you are testing listening comprehension and building attention. You are also developing a sense of story and in the process, developing a future writer. Hearing stories read aloud and then having the opportunity to re-tell are really, really important. And quite simple to do 
Before your child ever has the opportunity to become a text-taught tired tot, develop a habit of nature study. Truly, so much of this can be done very simply in your own backyard or a nearby park. When your child is excited about a nature find, let him draw it and then dictate to you. His own dictations will quickly become the perfect materials for reading practice.
Remember to expose your child to the finest of what's out there, whether you are considering literature or nature or music or art. Check here and herefor lots of very specific suggestions.
Charlotte Mason believed that when you bring the child into the living atmosphere of the home and you are aware and attentive to him there, the learning for both mother and child is boundless.
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Here's an oldie, but goodie worth pondering as you look to plan from a Charlotte Mason perspective:
"A Formidable List of Attainments for a Child of Six"
A reprint of a curriculum outline from a CM school in the 1890's. from Summer 93 Parents Review pub by Karen Andreola
1. To recite, beautifully, 6 easy poems and hymns
2. to recite, perfectly and beautifully, a parable and a psalm
3. to add and subtract numbers up to 10, with dominoes or counters
4. to read--what and how much, will depend on what we are told of the child
5. to copy in print-hand from a book
6. to know the points of the compass with relation to their own home, where the sun rises and sets, and the way the wind blows
7. to describe the boundaries of their own homes
8. to describe any lake, river, pond, island etc. within easy reach
9. to tell quite accurately (however shortly) 3 stories from Bible history, 3 from early English, and 3 from early Roman history [may want to substitute early American (or Australian) for early English]
10. to be able to describe 3 walks and 3 views
11. to mount in a scrap book a dozen common wildflowers, with leaves (one every week); to name these, describe them in their own words, and say where they found them.
12. to do the same with leaves and flowers of 6 forest trees
13. to know 6 birds by song, color and shape
14. to send in certain Kindergarten or other handiwork, as directed
15. to tell three stories about their own "pets"--rabbit, dog or cat.
16. to name 20 common objects in French, and say a dozen little sentences
17. to sing one hymn, one French song, and one English song
18. to keep a caterpillar and tell the life-story of a butterfly from his own observations.
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I just added this to My Favorites list. What a goldmine! Thanks for the replies! Very helpful for use in our home.
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