Episode 44: Language Acquisition

A Delectable Education Charlotte Mason Podcast

Nicole Williams

Homeschoolpodcast, Charlottemasoneducation, Education, Cmmethod, Studyguide

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🗓️ 2 September 2016

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

This week's Charlotte Mason podcast focuses on language. Mason's method was based on a child's nature, and this is most apparent in observing how her method runs along the line of a child's natural acquisition of language skills.

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"Many persons consider that to learn to read a language so full of anomalies and difficulties as our own is a task which should not be imposed too soon on the childish mind. But, as a matter of fact, few of us can recollect how or when we learned to read: for all we know it came by nature." (Vol. 1, p. 200)

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0:00.0	Today's Nicole Williams of a delectable education has begun publishing a living science curriculum that adheres to Mason's philosophy and her methods,
0:19.0	in addition to offering contemporary scientific knowledge that conforms to current next generation science standards.
0:27.0	Mason's School for School Science was to instill a sense of wonder and awe and students and to provide them with the common
0:34.2	information that allows for scientific literacy. Today the mass of common
0:39.3	information has grown in the last 100 years, so books must be selected carefully, or science can quickly crowd
0:46.4	out other aspects of the feast all students should partake of.
0:50.7	Though parents recognize the importance of these aims, they lack the time or knowledge to navigate this subject for their own children.
0:58.0	By using Nicole's curriculum, you can feel confident that your children are being nourished by the kind of living science education
1:04.9	Mason had in mind, one that creates a sense of wonder and admiration, while also preparing
1:10.3	them to be scientifically literate citizens.
1:13.0	Visit Nicole's website Sabbath Mood Homeschool.com
1:18.0	to browse the curriculum she has available for students in grades 4 through 12 and check back often as she is
1:24.8	publishing new curriculum each term. Before we get to the episode today I just
1:29.2	wanted to let you all know if you haven't found it already.
1:33.3	We get a lot of questions about what subjects
1:37.2	and what stage of the subject a child should be doing in each form.
1:42.3	And we have a whole page on a Delectable Education.com
1:46.6	called Subjects by Form.
1:49.1	That if you link to that, you'll see
1:51.3	the breakdown of forms and the topics covered in each subject appropriate to that
1:56.2	level and there are links to printable pages for those.
2:00.3	If that would help you out, go to www dot a delectable education dot com So, I'm going to do. Welcome back to a
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