St. Elizabeth Ann Seton Learning Community

08/09/2024

Tomorrow!
Doors open at 9 am!

08/06/2024

I am about half done sorting and have 17 boxes so far:
Biographies - Landmark and COFA
Picture Books
Living Books of Every Kind
Charlotte Mason books
YA fiction
More!

08/05/2023

St. Elizabeth Ann Seton will close enrollment for 2023-2024 on August 20th.
Current Openings:
Full Academic Program: Middle School and High School only
Friday Truth, Beauty, Goodness Group - openings in all Forms (grades 1-12) but some are almost full!
Inquire here https://forms.gle/soUPq1g5GTtAWtWe8 and our coordinator will contact you to complete the registration process.

07/31/2023

Form 2 is now full for 2023-2024!

Open spots in Form 3 (7th and 8th grades) and Form 4 (9th and 10th grades).

Come and meet us on Friday, August 4th, from 2pm-5pm at the Western Mass Homeschool meet-up in Forest Park in Springfield

Form 2 students have learned to read and write and do basic arithmetic: now they enter into a time of broad and deep learning that begins the process of learning their place in the world and the unique vocation of their lives.

2023-2024 - 2 openings

07/24/2023

Form 1 (1st-3rd grades) is now Full!

Still have 1-2 seats in Form 2 (4th-6th)
1-2 seats in Form 3 (7th-8th)
1-2 seats in Form 4 (9th-10th)

Begin the registration process here! https://forms.gle/zpMYu2fgafts6i616

Form 2 students have learned to read and write and do basic arithmetic: now they enter into a time of broad and deep learning that begins the process of learning their place in the world and the unique vocation of their lives.

2023-2024 - 2 openings

07/24/2023

“The flowers [and the bugs], it is true, are not new; but the children are…”

Mind you, this fifteen-spotted lady beetle was actually new to me, too! 😍

All of us were mesmerized!

(Vol I, p 53)
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07/23/2023

Poem XLIX from Charlotte Mason’s “The Saviour of the World” Volume V Book IV.

07/23/2023

Nature is not like the cinema. A good movie captures your attention, compels your senses, and choreographs your emotions. Nature does not thrust its delights upon you; it is so much more discrete. In fact, sometimes it camouflages them.

Only upon close inspection did the flower reveal its secret. It was hosting a visitor as hidden from the admirer as from the predator. The little bug’s colors so perfectly matched the petals that it seemed the Artist had painted them from the same palette on the same day. Only the motion perhaps gave him away. But I had to gaze long enough to see.

I fixed my eye until I could remember the pattern on his back, then sat on a nearby log and tried to draw what I had seen. The value was perhaps less in the painting than in the knowing that I would paint. That too compelled me to see.

Nature is not like the cinema. A good movie promises excitement without effort and emotion without engagement. Nature promises something so different. Wordsworth described it well: “A foretaste, a dim earnest, of the calm that nature breathes among the hills and groves.” A little bug breathed on me, and peace was my reward.

07/20/2023

The study of the Sciences should increase our wonder and amazement, yet students often say "I hate science! It's so boring." or participate in "hands-on" demonstrations but can't relate the activity to scientific principles.

Science education in the Charlotte Mason model takes a different approach: beginning with what the student already knows - their family pet or the birds at the feeder -- and expanding on that knowledge by asking the students to observe closely and record that observation in their notebooks. As the student grows we offer more specific knowledge in a variety of scientific disciplines but always with direct observation, recording the observations in a notebook, and attempting to draw conclusions or relate what we see to already known scientific laws.

This is scientific thinking and whether or not the student pursues science as an adult the skill of observation and reason will serve him all his life.

Learn more by filling out the inquiry/registration form !
https://forms.gle/TWr1F88psrNviMfS9

07/19/2023

Geography lessons are included in the Friday Truth, Beauty, Goodness Group as well as the full MWF program.

Begin the new student registration process here!
https://forms.gle/duyzTeXYMMxDwwVp7
Current Openings:
Form 1A (2nd-3rd grades) - 1 opening
Form 2 (4th- 6th grades) 1 opening
Form 3 (7th-8th grades) - 2 openings
Form 4 (9th-10th grades) - 2 openings
Also available 1 FAMILY opening (for families with students in multiple forms)

07/18/2023

https://forms.gle/CGzd47L4SnyaCAtt9 Link to registration form

07/17/2023

What is the reason for education? Is it simply to keep the children occupied so parents can produce for the economy? Is it to fit the children to be good producers in their turn?

We say, "NO!"

The purpose of education is first to interest the learner in something beyond himself, then to teach him of the God, his fellow man, and the universe, and finally to inspire him to love and service.

Each lesson learned, each habit conquered leads the student onward in his duty to know, love, and serve God and his neighbor.

Begin the new student registration process here!
https://forms.gle/duyzTeXYMMxDwwVp7
Current Openings:
Form 1A (2nd-3rd grades) - 1 opening
Form 2 (4th- 6th grades) 1 opening
Form 3 (7th-8th grades) - 2 openings
Form 4 (9th-10th grades) - 2 openings
Also available 1 FAMILY opening (for families with students in multiple forms)