The New Mason Jar with Cindy Rollins

This week on The New Mason Jar, Cindy and Dawn welcome Summer Smith back to the podcast with a fun discussion about her USA's 250th Birthday Book List
What Cindy remembers about the celebrations surrounding America's bicentennial when she was young
How Summer first came up with the idea for creating this book list
Why Summer tried to include a greater number of positive books than those that highlighted negative parts of America's history
Some examples of the types of books that made it onto the list
How Dawn is adding American patriotism resources across Cindy's Patreon and on her own Substack
For the full show notes of this episode, please visit https://thenewmasonjar.com/130.

On the first episode of Season 10 of The New Mason Jar, we bring you a conversation Cindy and Dawn had with Lani Siciliano, veteran homeschool mom and a member of the AmblesideOnline Auxiliary
How Lani first learned about homeschooling and Charlotte Mason
What is the difference between the AO Advisory and the Auxiliary?
How did you prepare transcripts for your students to get into the military and college?
Did Lani feel like she had to change a lot of things when she started homeschooling high school?
How the practice of narration prepared Lani's students for higher education
Did Lani encounter any hiccups along the way or have any regrets?
How Lani applies a Charlotte Mason education to her own life as she has graduated most of her children
A few more words of wisdom from moms farther down the road

On The New Mason Jar Podcast this week, we bring you a conversation Cindy and Dawn had with Sheila Carroll, founder of Living Books Press
How Sheila first heard about Charlotte Mason's philosophy
How Sheila started developing the curriculum and resources that became Living Books Press
What is narration, and what makes it such a powerful practice?
How do we keep the idea of a child's personhood from steering us toward a child-centered education?
Sheila's advice for beginning narration and dealing with pushback from your child
How to prepare young children who are not yet school age for narrating later
Why is nature study so important for today's children?
How do nature study and living books work together for a full education?
How is composition taught in the Charlotte Mason paradigm?
To view the full show notes for this episode, including resources mentioned, please visit our website at https://thenewmasonjar.com/128.

On this episode of The New Mason Jar, Cindy and Dawn talk with the women behind the Charlotte Mason New England community--Sarah Beals, Megan Massaro, and Rebekah Anglea
How and why did you get this started in the first place?
What roles do each of you play?
What have some of the past CMNE events looked like?
What are some of the challenges for home school families in New England?
How have you gotten the word out about CMNE?
What are some benefits of having a multi-generational community?

On The New Mason Jar Podcast this week, Cindy and Dawn talk with Querida Thompson about Handel's Messiah
How Querida first heard about Charlotte Mason
Who was George Frederic Handel?
How did Handel come to write the Messiah oratorio?
How should we first approach listening to Messiah?
More historical context for this piece of music
What is the shape of the whole work?
What are some recommendations for recordings of Handel's Messiah?
For links to all the resources mentioned in today's episode, please visit our website at https://thenewmasonjar.com/126.