Keeping Company :: September 2017

Welcome back, friends!  I hope you had a wonderful summer — with plenty of time for notebooking thrown in!  I’m happy to be back in this space hosting your lovely, lively examples for the Charlotte Mason community.

Starting the Discussion


Here’s a sampling of the keeping that has kept us busy over the last couple months…

Xavier’s Pagoo notebook

Cate and Xavier’s “weekly drawing” subject – they chose Pallas Athena

Funny – Bridget found an old notebook in the scratch bin, and ERASED all the pencil already in it to make herself a copybook! (Yes, I do have extra notebooks for them to use! I don’t know why she thought she required a pre-loved one, but I admire her keeping spirit! LOL)

The early bits of Gianna’s Livingstone map

A snippet from Gianna’s Prose and Poetry notebook — the three of us are all loving The Hobbit!

I’m still working toward my entry-a-week nature journaling goal, though I certainly fudged a bit around Damien’s birth, catching up by adding in some extra entries once I was out of bed and at the table again. 😉  And I have a couple new keeping practices to share here on the blog soon: a reading journal I am keeping for Year 6, which I’d call a visual-creative spin on a pre-reading commonplace book (clear as mud?), and then my Mother’s Diary, which I have going as an e-notebook in Evernote.

So as you start your new school year: what keeping habits are you hoping to build?

This Month’s Round-Up

Melissa shares her daughter’s lovely geography notebook.  My kids really enjoy tracing maps, so I’m thinking about how to stretch out the kind of study Melissa arranged over several years. I particularly love how she bound it as a keepsake.

Melanie has some poetry and a peek at her nature journal awaiting us.

Would you like to take a peek at a week in the life of a Year 7 student?  Carol satisfies our interest!

And Amy pairs photograph and quote perfectly, per usual: this Price Edward Island entry to her Monday Ponderings series particularly caught my eye.

On to some favorites from the Instagram world…

NATURE JOURNALS happylhomemaker1 – athena_amidstthereeds –  katosborne – barefootedarrows – adventureadaycm angelaboord – stoppingforbutterflies – home_again_six – charlottemasonpoetry – obispo98

A FEW FUN ECLIPSE ENTRIES! sarah_jonna – raising.saints – ecwetzel

COMMONPLACE BOOKS churchmouseathome – rmbell2008 – littledrops5 cara.stuchlik– maricsa81 – growingbrave

LOVELY MISCELLANY! brandyvencel – amyofhearthridge – vlcjrogers – corinna_rhodes_ this_little_homeschool – mariasugiyopranoto – simplicityhomeschool – windymorning_3

I could hardly do justice to the wonderful examples linked up this month, so please take a look through the Summer Collection and the Instagram tag yourself!  You’ll be glad you did.

Now it’s your turn!

The Link-Up

Instructions:
:: For bloggers: Click on the “Add my link” button below, and it will prompt you to include the information for your post.  Once you submit it, your link will be added to the list, and others will be able to click over and read what you have shared.
:: For Instagrammers: Tag related photos with #KeepingCompanyCM.


Guidelines:
:: Remember to link to a specific post and not to your blog’s homepage. 
:: Any posts about CM-style Keeping are welcome!  The prompt is optional.  Your post can be as simple as a photo of your commonplace book or your kids drawing.
:: Feel free to add more than one post.  The link-up will be open for a month, so you can come back and add more if you are so inclined.
:: You can grab the button over there on the sidebar if you’d like to add it to your post or site.


Looking forward to seeing what you share this month!