Charlotte Mason Lecture

[Triniity]

Hi there, 

I am very interested in the Charlotte Mason Style teaching and plan to do some enrichment lectures with DD, but I have one problem, I am a bit confused into how to actually set up a lecture. I do understand that I would read something to her, and she would narrate it back, but is this all I would do? 

And how does the living book concept really work? Would I actually read a whole book to them? like every day a chapter, say about trees, or just the part I am teaching about just now? 

I find it a bit difficult, could someone sketch out their actual lessons to me? Like for math, science, languages. 

Thanks a lot!

Trin

[PJsmomma]

Hello:) What Charlotte Mason books have you read so far?

I really like A Charlotte Mason Companion by Karen Andreola. She summarizes very well.

I follow Ambleside Online--right now you'd just be filling up their minds with lots of great books and spending lots of time outside.

I think that you shouldn't start narrating until age 6. If you check out the Year 0 book list on Ambleside, you'll have tons of great books to read. We loved every book better than the one before.

Simply Charlotte Mason has some good info. I bought her DVD seminar and am getting ready to watch it again. I got lots of good info out of that. Also she has a bookfinder tool which is really cool. You enter ages and subject matter and get a whole list of living books.

Living Books are books written by someone passionate about the topic or someone who lived the topic--or the person themselves writing about their experience--like Little House for example.

[Triniity]

Thank you for your reply. I did not read any "real" books, but read a lot at ambleside and simplycharlottemason, including "early years" and "laying out the rails". Do you think I should read a "real" book as well? 

Following an curriculum is a bit difficult for me, and this is where the problem starts. I am german, and my kids are, too :) So i cannot really read english books to them. Most of them are not translated, although they are beautiful ... anyway. I am trying to find out how to choose a book, at the moment we are reading Astrid Lindgrens books, for fun, and we both like them a lot. 

I would love to have a science program, but I cannot really follow any english ones, since the books are not in german. And I am not quite sure how to plan a cm lecture. I guess I need some help there, would that be described in the book you suggested? 

I´ll get there, I hope, but need as many help as possible

Thanks,

Trin