Charlotte Mason at Home
Paddle-to-the-Sea, A Child's Garden of Verses, and more
Charlotte Mason ran a school day on small habits: a good book read slowly, a poem learned by heart, a sentence copied with care, one picture looked at long enough to remember it.
A Child's Garden of Verses is the first poetry book in most Mason homes, here in Tasha Tudor's edition. The Tales of Peter Rabbit Copywork turns Beatrix Potter's own sentences into handwriting practice. MoMA's Highlights Postcard Set is picture study in a box, one card a week. And Paddle-to-the-Sea teaches Great Lakes geography through one small carved canoe.
Books
A Child's Garden of Verses
Stevenson's 1885 poems about bedtime, shadows, and rainy windows, illustrated in Tasha Tudor's watercolors.
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Books
The Tales of Peter Rabbit: Charlotte Mason Copywork
Short Beatrix Potter passages to copy by hand, with grammar and comprehension notes for the parent.
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MoMA
MoMA Highlights Postcard Set
100 postcards from MoMA's collection in one box, one to prop on the table and study each week.
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Books
Paddle-to-the-Sea
Caldecott Honor picture book that follows a carved canoe from Lake Superior to the Atlantic.
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This week's picks
One product and one brand from the collection
A Book of Centuries (BC/AD Edition). Mason's own timeline notebook, one spread per era, with a blank page to draw on and a ruled page for dates. Get it here
Lamy. Heidelberg pen maker founded in 1930, still producing every fountain pen, ballpoint, and mechanical pencil at its single German plant. Find it here
Last week's drop
In case you missed it
Birthday Gifts. Tin Can, Chapter House's Chapter I: Heroes and Wonders, and more View the drop
Tin Can
Tin Can
Screen-free Wi-Fi landline with a twirly cord, for calling friends from a parent-approved list.
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UGEARS
Mini Helicopter
167 plywood pieces that build into a wind-up helicopter that rolls along with its rotors spinning.
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Chapter House
Chapter I: Heroes and Wonders
Fables, myths, and famous stories in three linen-bound hardcovers, made for reading aloud.
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Days of Wonder
Ticket to Ride
Classic train board game: collect cards, claim routes across North America, and finish secret tickets.
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