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Black Friday-Cyber Monday SALE

All of the digital products in our Teacher Tools categories will be on sale for 20% off from Friday, November 24 through midnight (EST) on Monday, November 27.

Use code “Thanks20” to apply the discount to any product in these categories:

Teacher Helps: Planning
(Curriculum Templates, Exam Planner, Schedule Cards, etc.)

Teacher Helps: Forecasting
(Bible Lesson Breakdowns, Composition Planner, etc.)

Teacher Helps: Lessons
(Grammar Lessons, Reading Lessons, Geography Map Questions, etc.)

Teacher Training Videos: Workshops
(Nature Study, Science, Will Training, Forecasting, History, Living Books, and so many more.)

Teacher Training Videos: Demonstration Lessons
(Handicrafts, Reading, Math, Shakespeare, Music, Nature Journal, Geography, and Handwriting Lessons)

Conference Packages
(Exclusive Conference Quality videos designed to be shared with regional groups; personal Q&A excluded from discount)

In addition, we are excited to be partnering again this year with several other Charlotte Mason mamas who own online shops. Check out the great offerings from each of the following shops!

Afterthoughts Blog – Brandy Vencel’s shop has study guides, audio downloads, Swedish Drill books, event downloads and beginning Phonics lessons. Everything in this shop is 20%!

A Humble Place – A Humble Place offers Charlotte Mason Picture Study Aids and art prints, a gentle kindergarten curriculum, seasonal art devotions and prints, and other homeschooling items. From 11/24 to 11/27, you can get 30% off all Picture Study Aid PDFs, and many printable quote design PDFs are just $0.99! No coupon code is necessary.

Beauty & Truth Math – Math guides using Charlotte Mason’s method provide parents and students support alongside mathematically rich textbooks. Visit our website to learn more and see our Black Friday deals.

Charlotte Mason Simple Languages– These foreign language programs help families learn modern languages together through children’s folk songs, poems, conversational family phrases, Gouin series, and more. Save 50% off site-wide (for a limited time).

Composer Study Companion– Each study includes an easy to read biography of the composer’s life and 6 listening examples with activities and extension ideas. 50% off all products in my Gumroad store! Be sure to also check out the free Christmas Around the World unit study for free! Use coupon code “CM2023” to get the discounts!

Jeannie Fulbright Press, curriculum and tools to enrich your Charlotte Mason education. Offering peaceful, purposeful, and prestigious products to transform your homeschool: from the Charlotte Mason Heirloom Planner and Language Arts in Poetry to Culture & Craft Enrichment curriculum and our hardcover, visual Book of Centuries Timeline. BOGO for one day only: 11/24 Black Friday. And to get an exclusive 20% discount on all products from 11/24 to 11/27, use the discount code: THANKFUL

Nature Study Hacking– Combining Nature Study lessons with Nature Journal prompts these books to help beginners learn how to use a nature journal AND study nature regularly through first hand observation. Save 25% off site-wide from Thanksgiving Monday-Cyber Monday. Use the code: THANKFUL

Sabbath Mood Homeschool – offers a Charlotte Mason-style science curriculum from elementary through high school, as well as Special Study help, living science and nature study book lists, and a series of articles sharing how to do science Charlotte Mason’s way. Use the coupon code “20in2023” to get a 20% discount from 11/24 to 11/27.

Tillberry Table– Sweet and simple Charlotte Mason-based guides designed for a full term’s worth of Composer Study. Each of the 17 grab-and-go guides contains a short bio, song info, links, and QR codes to all the music. All guides are 25% off from Black Friday to Cyber Monday.

Episode 269: Voices from the Conference: Jono Kiser on Dangerous Books

At the 2023 ADE at HOME {Virtual} Conference Jono Kiser of Living Literature presented a talk entitled “Good and Dangerous Books.” We’ve invited him onto the podcast this week to discuss why Charlotte Mason encouraged students to read literature with objectionable content, and what makes these worthy books.

Listen Now:

The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain

Bleak House, Charles Dickens

Ruth, Elizabeth Gaskell

Oliver Twist, Charles Dickens

Number the Stars, Lois Lowry

Junkyard Wonders, Patricia Polacco

The Hundred Dresses, Eleanor Estes

2024 ADE @ Home {Virtual Conference}

Areopagitica, John Milton

ADE’s Patreon Community

Episode 268: Recitation Tactics

In this episode we return to the topic of Recitation, a distinctive feature of Charlotte Mason’s Method. We are focusing on practical ways to help your student develop their skills in Recitation, through both the “Mechanical” and the “Sentimental” Branches.

Listen Now:


“It will now be seen that I spoke nothing but the truth when I said that reading was an art which had its fixed laws. We have found laws for the emission of the voice, for respiration, for pronunciation, for articulation, and for punctuation ; that is to say, laws for all the material side, the technical part of the art of reading. Let us now pass on to its intellectual aspects.” (Ernest Legouvé. A Short Treatise on Reading Aloud. PR 17, p 436)

Hay said, “the first of these two branches … can in all cases be taught, and the second beyond hints and suggestions for guidance must be left to the taste and judgment of the speaker.” (p. 33-34)

What Charlotte Mason called “the fine art of beautiful and perfect speaking.” (1/223)

“It will now be seen that I spoke nothing but the truth when I said that reading was an art which had its fixed laws. We have found laws for the emission of the voice, for respiration, for pronunciation, for articulation, and for punctuation ; that is to say, laws for all the material side, the technical part of the art of reading. Let us now pass on to its intellectual aspects.” (Ernest Legouvé. A Short Treatise on Reading Aloud. PR 17, p 436)

Hay said, “the first of these two branches … can in all cases be taught, and the second beyond hints and suggestions for guidance must be left to the taste and judgment of the speaker.” (p. 33-34)

The Speaking Voice: Its Development and Preservation, Volume 1, Emil Behnke

The Speaking Voice: Its Development and Preservation, Volume 2, Emil Behnke

The Art of Reading and Speaking, Canon Fleming

How You Talk, Paul Showers

Awaken: Living Books Conferences

Episode 69: Recitation

Episode 179: Recitation Immersion

Nicole’s Recitation Handout

Episode 266: The Unity of the CM Method

Arthur Burrell’s Recitation: The Children’s Art

Mrs Tongue Does Her Housework

2024 ADE @ Home {Virtual Conference}

ADE’s Patreon Community

Episode 267: Trusting the Method with Celeste Cruz

This season, we are interviewing experienced Charlotte Mason moms, inviting them to tell us how they’ve come to “Trust the Method.” In today’s episode, Celeste Cruz, mom of eleven children, from infant to seniors in High School, joins us to reflect on her Charlotte Mason Journey.

Listen Now:


“Not only confidence in themselves, but confidence in their children, is an element of the masterly inactivity, which I venture to propose to parents as a ‘blue teapot’ for them ‘to live up to.’ Believe in the relation of parent and child, and trust the children to believe in it and fulfil it on their part. They will do so if they are not worried.” (3/30)

“People are naturally divided into those who read and think and those who do not read or think…” (6/31)

Paddle-to-the-Sea, Holling

Holling’s Book of Indians

Awaken: Living Books Conference

Episode 264: The Time-Table

Celeste’s blog: Joyous Lessons

ADE’s Patreon Community

Open Now: The Charlotte Mason Mini-Collection is Available!

Charlotte Mason Mini-Collection

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We’re participating in this limited time offer through the Homeschool Resource Co! This collection of resources that can complement a CM education includes three resources from A Delectable Education:

Recitation Planner (a value of $15)

Emily’s Forecasting Workshop (a value of $15)

A Form 1B Reading Demo Lesson (a value of $5)

These three resources would cost the same amount as the entire bundle, plus there are 20 other offers, including a professional audio book of Home Education from Living Book Press! The total savings on this CM Mini-Collection is 91% off retail.

Sale ends November 1, 2023

Additionally, Emily will be giving a FREE Webinar on Untangling Our Handicrafts Knots Thursday, October 12. Make sure you sign up when you check out the collection!

Charlotte Mason Mini-Collection

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