A Charlotte Mason Companion Blog Hop

One of my all time favourite books is A Charlotte Mason Companion.

I have had this book for over 13 years now and whenever I am in need of some good home school encouragement I dig into this book.

As I have just re embarked on the homeschool journey with Sir N (my first two have graduated) I felt it's time to refocus and refresh.  The result is I would like to work through this book over the next few months and blog a little about what I learn once a month.

It does not matter how long you have been home educating there is something in this book for you!

 A Charlotte Mason Companion 

Monthly Blog Hop.

So here I would like to extend my invitation to you to join me in a Monthly Charlotte Mason Companion discussion blog hop. I would love to hear your thoughts, how you applied what you read, what worked what didn't ? etc



Upcoming Chapters

• 2 April -
  Chapters 33{Nature Study}
  Chapter 34 {Nature for City Children}
  Chapter 35 {Neighbourhood Nature study} 
• 30 April-
  Chapter 6 {The Atmosphere of Home} 
  Chapter 7 {Bickerings}
• 28 May - TBA
• 25 June - TBA
• 30 July - TBA

A Charlotte Mason Companion is available from
(These are NOT affiliate links.)

• Amazon
• Fishpond
• Book Depository US
• Book Depository UK
• Ebay
• Christian Book
• Timberdoodle co
• Abe Books
• Shearer's Bookshop

Hope you can join me and share some homeschool encouragement.

Blessings
Chareen

For Further Reading:

• A Charlotte Mason Lifestyle~Interview with author Karen Andreola over at Blueberry Cottage. 
• 10 days of Charlotte Mason over at Our Journey Westward.
• Sonlight meets Charlotte Mason over at Sonlight
• The Best Charlotte Mason Blogs over at Squidoo
• The Gentle Art of Learning Part 3 over at Simply Charlotte Mason.

Picasso Inspired Collage from Practical Pages

I discovered today that Pinning it DOWN has been pinned to the wall. Why you ask ?
A note from Pam: Ah, doing what's right. Sometimes it is just so hard to do, and this is one of those times. It is with much regret that we announce that we will not be doing another Pinning It Down. Over the past few days it has come to our attention that many pinners are growing more and more concerned about the legality of Pinterest and choosing to delete their Pinterest accounts. This includes a number of the people who have participated with us in the past...... pop on over to Pams to read her full post on this issue.

Today Sir N and I decided to tackle a project from my Artist Studies board and do a Picasso Inspired Collage from Nadene over at Practical Pages 

Source: practicalpages.wordpress.com via Chareen on Pinterest

 Sir N's project

We had a lot of fun together.  Some parts Sir N found hard but overall he is proud of his piece.

Pop on over to Practical Pages where Nadene has provided a great PDF download and step by step to accomplish this project at home.

Blessings

Chareen 

Linking with
Grateful for Grace: What We're Learning
 

HMAS Castlemaine

Yesterday we joined a few home school families for a trip to the HMAS Castlemaine at Gem Pier in Williamstown Victoria.  It was a wonderful three hours of exploring !  If you are ever in Victoria add this to your to do list !

Some things of interest

• It took less than six months to build.
• The Castlemaine was built in Victoria, at Williamstown Dockyard.
• She was launched on 7th August 1941 and commissioned 17th June 1942.
• She is one of the 60 Australian-built Bathurst class corvettes to serve throughout World War Two and the last such vessel still afloat.
• Ships today do not go any faster than ships back then. The only difference is the economic efficiency of ships today.
• She had a crew of 90 sailors (all men)
• 70 of the crew slept in hammocks in one small area.
• Each seaman was issued his own hammock which had his service number and name on it.  He took it with him where ever he went.
• Each man had a set space / area where he hung his hammock.
• When the ships were decommissioned they were each sold for £12 000
• There are only two ships left from WWII in Australia and this is one of them.
• Contrary to popular belief sailors were not issued rum on a daily basis.  Rum was kept on board for special occasions. It was used to toast the Queen on her birthday and coronation.
• Today sailors have a beer allocation.  They are allowed one beer a day and only when in port. The beer is opened before they receive it.
• The ship had enough food for 40 days at sea. 
• There was fresh food for the first 10 days and after that it was powdered or tinned food.
• They used salt water for everything. (toilets, showers, cleaning etc)
• There were two types of compass aboard this ship.
• She has been here for 30 years as a museum and has no government funding. She is manned and maintained by volunteers.
• Some of the men who served aboard her 70 years ago still volunteer aboard her today.  We met two of them.  Both were in their 90's and took a tour !

For interest I had a look on Google Maps at the Castlemaine.




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Blessings
Chareen