Maryland CM Communities: 2
In a Large Room Community of Central Maryland
Meeting Location: Laurel, MD and multiple locations throughout Central Maryland
Community Description: Our community hosts Soul Food Saturdays throughout each month. These include a monthly gathering of parents to discuss Charlotte Mason’s philosophy, which is guided directly by her volumes. In addition, there are quarterly Maker workshops in Rockville, MD and quarterly dinner parties for couples (also in Rockville) in which parents sample the feast of a Charlotte Mason education for themselves. Finally, our Natural History Club meets monthly at various parks throughout Eastern MD and Northern VA.
Contact: Dawn Duran
Email: dawnduran22 AT gmail DOT com
Website: www.inalargeroomretreat.com
Last Updated: 01/29/2018
Community Description: Our community hosts Soul Food Saturdays throughout each month. These include a monthly gathering of parents to discuss Charlotte Mason’s philosophy, which is guided directly by her volumes. In addition, there are quarterly Maker workshops in Rockville, MD and quarterly dinner parties for couples (also in Rockville) in which parents sample the feast of a Charlotte Mason education for themselves. Finally, our Natural History Club meets monthly at various parks throughout Eastern MD and Northern VA.
Contact: Dawn Duran
Email: dawnduran22 AT gmail DOT com
Website: www.inalargeroomretreat.com
Last Updated: 01/29/2018
In a Large Room Cottage School
Meeting Location: Rockville, MD
Community Description: **Coming Fall 2018**
I am hoping to find like-minded families to form a pure CM school meeting multiple days each week to share the feast of morning lessons together. All families are required to 1. purchase the Alveary curriculum and 2. commit to some form of reading and discussing CM's volumes in a group. Families can join us every day or every Monday, for example. Experience with the CM method is not a requirement. There are several in-person CM reading groups under the umbrella of the In a Large Room Community as well as several online groups (like the Idyll Challenge) which will satisfy the reading requirement. I can accommodate Forms 1 - 3 at this time, but if families with high school students are interested we can probably make that work too. This is not a total drop-off school, but we can arrange the schedule so that some dropping off can happen. This school would be ideal for a family where the primary teaching parent has some obligations which require them to be out of the home a day or more each week, as we can take turns teaching the morning lessons or for a mother who is new to the method and not sure she can implement the whole feast all at once. I am particularly interested in finding at least one mother with young children who could take the Pre-K group outside and facilitate some CM-style "infant education" like singing games, letter exploration, sensory play (sand, water, etc.). I'm open to taking turns either by days of the week, terms, or portions of the morning (i.e. by subjects). The biggest constraint that I see is traffic in the DC area, so I would like to find families who live within 15 or 20 minutes from my home in Rockville (2 minutes from exit 6A off 270).
Contact: Nicole Handfield
Email: handfieldshalom AT gmail DOT com
Website: www.inalargeroomretreat.com
Last Updated: 03/15/2018
Community Description: **Coming Fall 2018**
I am hoping to find like-minded families to form a pure CM school meeting multiple days each week to share the feast of morning lessons together. All families are required to 1. purchase the Alveary curriculum and 2. commit to some form of reading and discussing CM's volumes in a group. Families can join us every day or every Monday, for example. Experience with the CM method is not a requirement. There are several in-person CM reading groups under the umbrella of the In a Large Room Community as well as several online groups (like the Idyll Challenge) which will satisfy the reading requirement. I can accommodate Forms 1 - 3 at this time, but if families with high school students are interested we can probably make that work too. This is not a total drop-off school, but we can arrange the schedule so that some dropping off can happen. This school would be ideal for a family where the primary teaching parent has some obligations which require them to be out of the home a day or more each week, as we can take turns teaching the morning lessons or for a mother who is new to the method and not sure she can implement the whole feast all at once. I am particularly interested in finding at least one mother with young children who could take the Pre-K group outside and facilitate some CM-style "infant education" like singing games, letter exploration, sensory play (sand, water, etc.). I'm open to taking turns either by days of the week, terms, or portions of the morning (i.e. by subjects). The biggest constraint that I see is traffic in the DC area, so I would like to find families who live within 15 or 20 minutes from my home in Rockville (2 minutes from exit 6A off 270).
Contact: Nicole Handfield
Email: handfieldshalom AT gmail DOT com
Website: www.inalargeroomretreat.com
Last Updated: 03/15/2018
The Orchard Co-op
Meeting Location: Columbia, MD
Community Description: We have classes from nursery to 6th grade, and offer a range of subjects, from the traditional core subjects to painting study, composer study, and poetry.
The Orchard holds frequent discussion groups open to anyone interested in exploring Charlotte Mason's theories. We also gather each Monday in small groups during co-op time to read and narrate Mason's works. Two of our core missions are to share Mason's methods with the wider homeschooling community, and to support families that desire to implement these methods in their homes. We also gather enjoy Nature Walks and hold community events to offer students time to socialize outside of co-op session.
Contact: Emma Lehman
Email: theorchardcoop AT gmail DOT com
Website: http://www.theorchardcoop.com
Last Updated: 02/23/2018
Community Description: We have classes from nursery to 6th grade, and offer a range of subjects, from the traditional core subjects to painting study, composer study, and poetry.
The Orchard holds frequent discussion groups open to anyone interested in exploring Charlotte Mason's theories. We also gather each Monday in small groups during co-op time to read and narrate Mason's works. Two of our core missions are to share Mason's methods with the wider homeschooling community, and to support families that desire to implement these methods in their homes. We also gather enjoy Nature Walks and hold community events to offer students time to socialize outside of co-op session.
Contact: Emma Lehman
Email: theorchardcoop AT gmail DOT com
Website: http://www.theorchardcoop.com
Last Updated: 02/23/2018