~Another Level of Learning Begins

Here in just a few days, my daughter will begin another level of learning about this world she finds herself in.  I hate to say what "equivalent" grade level she is in, so I won't, but she still very much ahead in years than her public peers.  I know my state would like me put her in a grade level but I am blessed to live in such a state that doesn't govern over how, what, when my daughter learns.  I am happy for it; for she loves to go out into the world to educate herself and be not confined inside a room everyday competing with classmates and catching their colds.  She is such a free and natural "lover of nature and all it has to offer" spirit.  She would rather save the wild critters outside than play video games and clean her room.

This educating year will be a heavy on the classical on light on the Charlotte Mason.  It will be challenging for my daughter because this is the year where I, her education guide, begin the transfer of  reins slowly into her hands so that she may learn to become more independent about her formal education. It will be a more structured year than the ones past.

What I loved about Charlotte Mason's philosophy was it's freedom for formal structure.  My daughter never knew she was be educated under the CM method. However, the CM method will have to wait a bit this year my daughter becomes more independent in her reading to where she do more of the reading herself.  She is wonderful under the CM method of exploration and that we will most definitely continue.