The Jackals & The Lion

I am an eclectic homeschooler.  I like and am easily enticed by so many things, thoughts, and ideas.  In the last two years I have been learning a lot more about Charlotte Mason.  I love her philosophy on education and have been slowly retraining my "teacher" brain to weave her methods into our daily lessons.   is the child's need to listen once to a story and then narrate.  Let me tell you...this is amazing!  I do narrations a couple of ways.  Sometimes the girls will read on their own, something I have picked out for them, and then they narrate to me and I write exactly what they say into their journal.  Sometimes I read to them, especially in history and science, and then they narrate to me and I write for them, or they complete a web on the topic and write down little notes/facts from the reading.  Another way I have incorportated narration into our studies this year is after they have read several short stories (Aesop's Fables or the like) I tell them they can pick one and do a narration project.  We brainstormed a list of possible projects and have it hanging in the school room, but they are ever so creative in figuring out their own ideas it makes it so fun to see the final product.  (Yeah Analisa...there is that word...product!  Argh!!  :) )   Anywho, Anna picked a puppet show for her last narration project.  Here is a peak....