Charlotte Mason Homeschool Cottage

I know most people have started school already. I know I’m testing out my schedule I’ve put together for this new school year and trying out new planning forms to see if this is the schedule and the organization format I want to use for the rest of the year.

Because we change and our routines change from year to year, our school always seems different every year. So, our schedule and the way I organize and schedule things always changes too. I know that the schedule I have put together for now and my planning forms that I use will be tweaked and changed by the end of the month after we give it a test run.

Because scheduling, planning, and organizing are on my mind right now (especially “What’s for dinner?” – I’m running out of fresh ideas and time to plan and prepare), I asked Cindy Rushton if I could offer my readers a special price on her Organized Mom Super Set.

This set comes with 7 assorted e-books and over 30 audio seminars in mp3 audio files. Here is a list of the ebooks and the sets of audio files you will receive as a bonus:

• Homeschooling the Easy Way
• Let’s Get Organized
• Make Your Own Brain-in-a-Binder
• The Ultimate Mommy Menu Planner
• Getting Back to God’s Design for the Godly Home
• Homeschool the Easy Way Magazine Reprint Book Volume 2
• Christ-Centered Christmas
• Assorted audio files about Homeschooling High School, Organization, Restoring Balance in your Life
• Special workshops presented by Cindy’s homeschooled son to fellow homeschoolers
• The Organization 911! Help for the Messy Mom Seminar Audio Set! (Over 24 mp3 audio seminars)
• The Let’s Get Organized for the New School Year Seminar Audio Set! (10 mp3 audio seminars)

For a detailed description of each of the e-book sets and the audio seminar sets, please visit this page.

I have purchased most of these items individually and have thoroughly enjoyed and have used all of them! I even do housework, exercise, or wait for the kids during one of their activities listening to these same audio seminars over and over again!

This set is usually available at a special price of $99.95 (much more expensive when purchased individually). For this week only, until midnight next Friday night, I am able to offer this huge set of resources to my readers for $49.95. Cindy has generously agreed to allow me to run this special just for you. This special is nowhere else, so take a look at all there is included in this Organized Mom Super Set..

As a special gift to my readers, I also want to offer you a free sampling of what to expect when you purchase this set.

It is an audio and ebook set that Cindy actually sells on her website, but she is giving it away to help us get familiar with her resources. Here is the link:

Let’s Get Ready for a New School Year Super Set!

Let’s Get Ready for the New School Year Mommy Planner…
Ebook by Cindy Rushton

Download Part One
http://www.cindyrushton.com/pdfs/GearingUp1.pdf

Download Part Two
http://www.cindyrushton.com/pdfs/GearingUp2.pdf

PLUS! Companion Audio!
Let’s Get Ready for a New School Year–Audio

Download by Mp3
http://www.cindysdesktop.com/wp-content/uploads/2006/GetReadyNewSchoolYear.mp3

I know that after looking at the sample planner set and listening to the audio, you will see why I find these resources so valuable. I have reread them and reprinted the planning forms again and again for our homeschool, my business, the children’s activities, and our home organization. You will too! I especially loved the Christ-Centered Christmas as well as Homeschooling the Easy Way!

This is my way of celebrating the start of another great homeschool year and starting it off right! God bless you and your family in your new school year and may your time together be fruitful!

Nature Study and More ebooks by Season

Autumn Nature Study and More

Well, some of you asked for smaller units for nature studies and we did it! This is not just a nature study though. Just like our Nature Study Through the Year book, this nature study uses nature to introduce more formal scientific study topics and areas. So to use an old saying, “You can have your cake (Charlotte Mason style nature study) and eat it too (study more traditional science topics).

If you’re like me, you like the idea of bringing your kids out into nature, enjoying the current season and appreciating the little things in your surroundings. However, you might be concerned about covering science as an academic subject.

The new Autumn Nature Study and More has been taken out of our year long study and made into its own ebook for those of you who want to pick and choose which season you want to study at a time and wish to purchase something at a lower cost to you than our Nature Study Through the Year ebook.

This nature study has you observing the autumn season during the months of September, October, and November. There are several suggested topics to observe each month. Just like our larger ebook, this ebook includes:

• suggested nature study books to use alongside our practical nature study suggestions
• poetry about the topics of nature study
• living book lists for each topic for each month
• suggested activities to do during your nature walk or after the walk
• questions to ask during the walk to help your child focus or discuss their observations about a topic you want to  study on your walk
• scientific connections: topics of formal science subject areas – includes living book lists and activity or experiment ideas to extend your scientific study
• nature journal pages to print and use to keep a nature journal
• suggested book list for keeping nature journals and drawing from nature

For example, this nature study will ask you to observe, read about, discuss, and explore migration habits of birds and animals. That is your nature study topic for one month. (There are others to choose from as well, if you wish to do something different or do more than one topic for each month.) From the idea of migrating birds and animals, you extend your nature study into a formal scientific study into physical science with a study of the earth’s magnetic fields, then magnets and magnetism.

This nature study supplies you with what you need if you want to use the poetry for copywork (you can use the included nature journal pages and include the copywork in your nature journal), read about topics in nature, bunny trail ideas into formal scientific study, and links and suggestions for more research, activities, and experiments into topics in the fields of biology, physical science, and chemistry.

Autumn Nature Study and More e-book

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We hope you will enjoy this nature and science study as much as we do! I am enjoying the crisp feel to the air and can’t wait for the rest of the fall season.

Other Nature Study e-books

We have other nature studies that we have taken out of our year long study for the Winter season and the Spring season if you wish to purchase either of those now as well here. They have everything the Autumn season nature study has, but different topics appropriate to each season.

Winter Nature Study and More ebook
(covering December, January, and February)

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Spring Nature Study and More e-book
(covering March, April, and May)

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Using Nature Study, Nature Journals, and Poetry Through the Year e-book

This ebook is a year long study of nature divided into seasons and months and the natural events that occur during those seasons. Through a natural introduction into science through nature, this study introduces children into different areas of biology, physics, and chemistry.

For an overview of what you will find in Using Nature Study, Nature Journals, and Poetry Through the Year, I invite you to view a slideshow I created to help explain my ebook:

 Using Nature Study, Nature Journals, and Poetry Through the Year ebook slideshow

Would you like to give nature study a try but don’t know how you will find the time or fit it into your schedule and still feel like you are covering everything you really feel the need to cover for science?

I’ve been there. That is why I have written a book that takes the time for nature study but still covers different areas of biology, chemistry, and physics as an extended study of what you observe in nature. These topics can be covered generally or more in depth. It all depends on you, your child, and the time and interest you have for each topic.

This 215 page study includes the following sections that you can print off a few at a time depending on the topic of your study and the time of year:

• Each Season has 3 months
• Each Month has poetry and quotes that have to do with that month or topics within that month
• There are different topics and a different number of topics depending on the natural events during that season or month.

  For example, under Winter, you will find December, January, and February. Within January, you will find the topics of Trees in Winter, Astronomy, Owls,and Nocturnal Animals.
  
  Within each topic you will find:
  

• Pertinent poetry and quotes
• Suggested Living Book list
• Nature Walk and Post-walk Activities
• Questions with which to engage your children in conversation about the topic of study during the walk
• Scientific Connections that naturally draw your child into an extended study of biology, physics, or chemistry that is connected to your nature study topic
  
  For example, a topic study in July is Weather – Thunder, Lightning, Rain, and Rainbows. After observing this in nature and studying it, a Scientific Connection offers suggestions in which to extend that study into a study of Electricity, Sound Waves and Vibrations, Color, Light, or Acid Rain.

             Each Scientific Connection has

• Suggested Living Books list (if books are available on the topic)
• Suggested Activities and Experiments
  Some of these are described in the book, others are websites or books of experiments.
   
• The Next Major Section of the book is Nature Journaling
  Here you will find Recommended Nature Journal and Drawing book suggestions and websites. You will also find Suggested Sources for Nature Journaling pages and Sample Nature Journal pages within this book to get you started right away.
  
• The Last Section is the Poetry section.
  Here you will find Suggestions in which to integrate Poetry into your nature study through Writing and Studying Literary Devices commonly found in Poetry.

 So, you can see that you CAN do a weekly nature study and still tie it into a more formal study of the traditional scientific areas and have the best of both worlds.

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