Home Education in Dublin

Support for Irish families using the Classical and Charlotte Mason approach to Home School

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  • Learning About Ireland
    • Irish Living Booklist (More coming soon)
      • Irish Living Book list – Chronological Overview of Irish History
      • Irish Living Book list – Classic fiction set in Ireland
      • Beautifully Illustrated Irish Nature Books to Enjoy One Page a Day
    • Irish Geography
    • Irish Art
      • Art Appreciation Charlotte Mason Style
      • Irish Artist Study – Harry Clarke
    • Field Trips
      • Hugh Lane Gallery Dublin
      • Visiting Newgrange
    • Adapting US curriculum
      • Do I need to teach sentence diagramming in Ireland?
    • Nature Study
      • Beautifully Illustrated Irish Nature Books to Enjoy One Page a Day
      • What’s in our bag when we go out for a nature walk? Guest Post!
      • Guest Post: Nature Study – How Can I Teach What I Don’t Know?
      • Guest Post: Encouraging Reluctant Nature Students
  • Books & Curriculum
    • Curriculum Reviews (more coming soon)
      • Learning Handwriting using Handwriting Without Tears
      • Using All About Spelling in Ireland
      • Learning French
      • Burgess Animal Book matched to Peterson Field Guide, The World of Animals and Draw Write Now
    • Handicrafts
      • Starting Calligraphy
    • Music
      • Learning to Play the Piano in our Home
      • Music Theory
    • Our Curriculum Choices By Grade (Coming soon)
    • Books to Read Aloud
      • The Hutchinson Treasury of Stories to Read Aloud
      • Valentine’s Day! ♥
      • Some lovely books for Christmas in Irish libraries…
    • Making My Own Books
    • Audible books
  • Mother’s Education
    • Keeping Notebooks with Charlotte Mason
    • I want to read Charlotte Mason’s volumes – Which book should I buy?
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  • Start Here
  • Learning About Ireland
    • Irish Living Booklist (More coming soon)
      • Irish Living Book list – Chronological Overview of Irish History
      • Irish Living Book list – Classic fiction set in Ireland
      • Beautifully Illustrated Irish Nature Books to Enjoy One Page a Day
    • Irish Geography
    • Irish Art
      • Art Appreciation Charlotte Mason Style
      • Irish Artist Study – Harry Clarke
    • Field Trips
      • Hugh Lane Gallery Dublin
      • Visiting Newgrange
    • Adapting US curriculum
      • Do I need to teach sentence diagramming in Ireland?
    • Nature Study
      • Beautifully Illustrated Irish Nature Books to Enjoy One Page a Day
      • What’s in our bag when we go out for a nature walk? Guest Post!
      • Guest Post: Nature Study – How Can I Teach What I Don’t Know?
      • Guest Post: Encouraging Reluctant Nature Students
  • Books & Curriculum
    • Curriculum Reviews (more coming soon)
      • Learning Handwriting using Handwriting Without Tears
      • Using All About Spelling in Ireland
      • Learning French
      • Burgess Animal Book matched to Peterson Field Guide, The World of Animals and Draw Write Now
    • Handicrafts
      • Starting Calligraphy
    • Music
      • Learning to Play the Piano in our Home
      • Music Theory
    • Our Curriculum Choices By Grade (Coming soon)
    • Books to Read Aloud
      • The Hutchinson Treasury of Stories to Read Aloud
      • Valentine’s Day! ♥
      • Some lovely books for Christmas in Irish libraries…
    • Making My Own Books
    • Audible books
  • Mother’s Education
    • Keeping Notebooks with Charlotte Mason
    • I want to read Charlotte Mason’s volumes – Which book should I buy?
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    Irish Nature Study

    Guest Post: Encouraging Reluctant Nature Students

    Charlotte Mason wrote “We are all meant to be naturalists, each in his own degree, and it is inexcusable to live in a world so full of the marvels of plant and animal life and to care for none of these things.” (Home Education, page 61) But what can we do if our children just aren’t interested in nature? Irish nature lover and home educator Maireen has written a lovely post describing encouraging reluctant nature students. She has included some of her beautiful photographs of her family. You can see more of her photos on her Instagram. The early years promised to be beautiful and idyllic. We would do as Charlotte…

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    Guest Post: Nature Study – How Can I Teach What I Don’t Know?

    Irish nature lover and home educator Maireen has written a lovely post answering the question “How can I teach what I don’t know?” when thinking about studying nature. I have been chatting recently to a friend about homeschooling and nature study. She said she and her husband had been looking at my Instagram feed and he spotted the post on silk button galls and wondered how I know so much stuff about so many topics. She turned to him and said, you know she uses an app for that? What?!? She said she could hear me tumble off the pedestal in his head. I laughed, I know very little – I…

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    What’s in our bag when we go out for a nature walk? Guest Post!

    Irish nature lover and home educator Maireen has written a lovely post describing what she brings along for a nature walk. She has included some of her beautiful photographs of her family on a nature walk. You can see more of her photos on her Instagram. Maireen lives with her long-suffering husband, their two little girls and a motley collection of animals in the sunny southeast of Ireland where the family have been trying to carve out a little corner of heaven on their acre of land. Maireen spent her early years in the West Indies before the pull of home drew her dad to bring the family to Ireland.…

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A little blog to bring awareness of the Classical and Charlotte Mason approach to home education (home schooling) to Irish families by showing how my family use this style: how we supplement, substitute and adapt US curriculum; include Irish history and geography; information on books fitting this approach available in our libraries; local resources and the wonderful local field trips available.

I hope to come alongside you as a friend on this journey sharing what I have learnt and what others have shared with me over the last decade.  I hope to support you in enjoying this journey of discovery we are both on.

Wishing you a wonderful journey!  ~ Anna

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