Community Learning Days

Parents and students in our learning community meet together on Fridays from 1:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. This gives us an opportunity to build relationships while learning in a group setting.  

As part of a history of over 100 years of students around the world learning with the Charlotte Mason philosophy, we embrace her principle that “Education is an atmosphere, a discipline, and a life.”  As such, we strive to cultivate an atmosphere of support and encouragement to learn new things together through the environment of the natural world and we work together as parent-educators to encourage each student to build habits essential to lifelong learning.

We create community through working together as parents to lead classes, working together as students to discover new things and build new habits, and sharing our discoveries, achievements, set-backs, and perseverance with one another.  

All courses offered are stand-alone classes. This alleviates pressure on parents to help their students complete weekly “homework” which may be outside of the parent’s pre-set academic program for each student.   Teachers help students fulfull the requirements of the course during the class itself.   Classes are not intended to take the place of academic instruction at home.  Rather, they open a student up to a broader array of information, experiences and relationships than they may obtain in their own homeschool daily schedule.

Each class does fit within the general scope and sequence of recommendations by the Charlotte Mason Education Center (www.thecmec.org) for those utilizing their materials at home.

We enjoy learning together in various ways through our classes with an emphasis on “books and things.”  We utilize engaging stories and literature to help students learn material and reserve the final Friday of each month for an “experiential” learning day on which we go on a field trip to bring our learning to life.