Author Archives: Kay Pelham

FREE Sample Classes – Tuesday, January 28, 2025

Posted on January 8, 2025 by Kay Pelham

Come and see what it’s all about! In two one-hour sessions on January 28, 2025, I will be offering sample classes of Story, Rhyme, & Song and Growing in the Literary Tradition. The sessions are scheduled as follows: ■11:00 – … Continue reading →

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Book review: Why Literature Still Matters by Jason M. Baxter

Posted on January 1, 2025 by Kay Pelham

Why Literature Still Matters by Jason M. Baxter My rating: 5 of 5 stars This beautiful, little book is the first publication from Cassiodorus Press. Let’s start with the little part: it was the intention of the publisher to provide … Continue reading →

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Hinder not the children: a look at Narration

Posted on December 30, 2024 by Kay Pelham

One of the hallmarks and ‘must haves’ of a Charlotte Mason education is Narration — first in the form of oral narration and then into written narration as the practice of oral narration is continuing. Without Narration it is simply … Continue reading →

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Scenes from 2023-24 classes

Posted on September 15, 2024 by Kay Pelham

Below are pictures from my two Story, Rhyme, & Song classes, as well as my Growing in the Literary Tradition classes. Last year the GLT class got “the fairy tale class”, which is a primer for reading metaphorically, and in … Continue reading →

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A Child’s Relations with his World

Posted on July 28, 2024 by Kay Pelham

For the past few months I have weekly produced a graphic, with a lot of help from my husband and son, to post each Monday, which include a quote from Charlotte Mason. This weekend as I was preparing the graphic … Continue reading →

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Carrying Aunt Karen Out

Posted on July 8, 2024 by Kay Pelham

She helped bring him into the world. I thought it appropriate that he should help carry her out. It is true. I wish I had pictures of my childless sister Karen as she stayed in the delivery room with me, … Continue reading →

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Love Day and Ash Wednesday

Posted on February 14, 2024 by Kay Pelham

Ash Wednesday coming on the 14th of February this year has brought to my mind the connection between the Gospel — humanity’s fall and separation from her Father and her Groom, and then the rescue and reconciliation by that Groom … Continue reading →

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What you and your children are missing out on by not reading pagan myths

Posted on February 10, 2024 by Kay Pelham

There are disagreements in the Christian education and parenting world, especially in the homeschool world of which I’ve been a part for two decades, about the exposure to stories of pagan gods and demi-gods and heroes of the various non-Christian … Continue reading →

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To Be Enchanted By Story

Posted on November 11, 2023 by Kay Pelham

I’ve had the wonderful experience these past 10 weeks of reading story to four-year-olds, taking things a little deeper with my 6-9 year old group, with telling back what we saw and what it reminded us of, and then with … Continue reading →

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Art for Art’s Sake

Posted on August 6, 2023 by Kay Pelham

I was just about to write about “For the Love of the Art or the Love of the Utility?” (stay tuned for that), when I see the following Facebook post from my husband with an accompanying video. I’m going to … Continue reading →

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