A Day of Charlotte Mason Inspired Lessons for You

This year we are pleased to welcome the hosts of A Delectable Education podcast as our presenters for Immersions Day.  Enjoy a five-hour immersion session in which you become the student.  Presented in a small group setting, these immersions are perfect for making in-depth connections with the Charlotte Mason philosophy and methods.

Step 1. Choose Your Immersion Session

Please chose one immersion session from the options below.  Registration includes price of lunch.  The location will be within the vicinity of Reisterstown, MD.  Registrants will be updated with the location details.

Join us after the sessions for a free talk on CM101 led by Art Middlekauff.

Immersions Day Registration

5-hour Immersion Session + Lunch:
$99
Immersions Day is an a la carte offering and is separate from registration for the In a Large Room weekend retreat.

Immersion Session Options

Keeping Time: History and History Charts

Emily Kiser

​We have all heard of The Book of Centuries, but some of the other time-tools Mason and the PNEU used are more unfamiliar. The use of charts and notebooks in the PNEU supported a child’s deepening relationship with history and helped him develop his understanding of chronology, the conception of time, through a carefully graduated progression of time-tools. Our students today can greatly benefit from this thorough method of studying time that includes personal time-lines, Streams of History charts, the Book of Centuries, and Miss Beale’s History Charts.
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During this immersion session we will explore how history was studied throughout the forms as the class participates in lessons at each level, 1st-12th grades. Together we will discover and produce the history tools children can be implementing at each level as they learn chronology. This hands-on experience will enable parents and teachers to have a clear view of the unfolding progression these tools provide in helping us deepen our understanding of the great men and events of the past and our relation and connection to them.

The Natural Writer

Liz Cottrill

Charlotte Mason said, “Composition is as natural as jumping and running to children who have been allowed due use of books. They should narrate in the first place, and they will  compose, later readily enough; but they should not be taught ‘composition. She also said that instruction in this art was “like snakes in Ireland,” which puzzles us, does she mean nonexistent? (she cannot be serious!) She even went so far as to say instruction of the young in composition was a futility, and the published how-to manuals a “public danger.” So how, then, does a child educated in Mason’s method of education produce the lovely examples we find in her volumes of lucid, sensible, well-constructed compositions? What is a teacher, whether personally a good writer or not, to do, and how in the world do we prepare children for college or the work force without some definite writing instruction?

​This practical workshop will walk through the progression in the art of composition from forms I to VI, explaining and demonstrating with hands-on lessons how this art is naturally taught and does indeed produce students as adept with a pen as with their tongue. Due consideration will be given to children with learning disabilities or who have come late to the feast that makes this subject a particular challenge.

A Discussion of Afternoon Nature Study

Nicole Williams

Nature study is often one of the reasons people are drawn to a Charlotte Mason curriculum. They wish to spend more time in nature as part of their children’s education, and brush drawing seems like a lovely way to record their discoveries. But what does nature study really constitute? What should be done (or not done) as part of this “out-of-door work,” and how often should it be done? In this workshop, Nicole will take the mystery out of nature study, but not the majesty.
Please feel free to bring your nature notebook and watercolor supplies.

Step 2. Download and Print Registration Form

Print and fill out your registration form and mail it in with your payment. Registrants will be taken in the order that payments are received. 

Registration closes November 1, 2018.
2019 Immersions Day Registration Form
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Be sure to register for the In a Large Room weekend retreat!
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