The Large Room Learning Community is a faith-based Charlotte Mason homeschool group that meets once a week for 6 months out of the school year.

For the past 3 years I have rearranged an area of my home to serve as a school room. It hasn’t been ideal but we’ve made it work.

Last year, through a combined gift from my parents and my community, I was able to purchase a building that will serve as a one room schoolhouse.

Now I’m taking a leap of faith to ask for help to fund the completion of the interior of the schoolhouse before we start back this Fall!!

Remaining needs include:

Insulation, interior walls and ceiling, paint, lighting, 5 tables and 20 chairs, 3 storage cabinets, 3 bookshelves, 4 folding tables for science labs, flexible seating furniture options, rug, 2 large whiteboards, outdoor seating, wood to build front steps

The Large Room Learning Community:

Is a safe place for students to be who they are without fear of judgment, peer pressure, or bullying.

It is an environment that protects, respects, and honors each student’s unique personality.

The aim is to instruct the whole person- the heart, mind, and spirit.

A wide variety of subjects are covered each year and our learning time together is immersive and discussion based.

There is a strong emphasis on character, spiritual growth, academic diligence, appreciation of the arts, and exposure to the classics.

Students are expected to show initiative and take ownership over their education with the goal of encouraging a lifelong love of learning.

Guiding ideas:

“Our aim of education is to give a full life. We begin to see what we want. Children make large demands upon us. We owe it to them to initiate an immense number of interests. ‘Though hast set my feet in a large room,’ should be the glad cry of every intelligent soul. Life should be all living, and not merely a tedious passing of time; not all doing or all feeling or all thinking—the strain would be too great—but, all living; that is to say, we should be in touch wherever we go, whatever we hear, whatever we see, with some manner of vital interest. We cannot give the children these interests; we prefer that they should never say they have learned botany or conchology, geology, or astronomy. The question is not,-- how much does the youth know? when he has finished his education—but how much does he care? and about how many orders of things does he care? In fact, how large is the room in which he finds his feet set? and, therefore, how full is the life he has before him?” -Charlotte Mason, Vol.3 p. 171-172

“One thing we know with certainty, that no teaching, no information becomes knowledge to any of us until the individual mind has acted upon it, translated it, transformed it, absorbed it, to reappear, like our bodily food, in forms of vitality. Therefore, teaching, talk and tale, however lucid or fascinating, effect nothing until self-activity be set up; that is, self-education is the only possible education; the rest is mere veneer laid on the surface of a child’s nature.”- Charlotte Mason, Vol.6 p. 240

“This idea of all education springing from and resting upon our relation to Almighty God is on which we have ever labored to enforce…we hold that all education is divine, that every good gift of knowledge and insight comes from above, that the culmination of all education is that personal knowledge of and intimacy with God in which our being finds its fullest perfection.” -Charlotte Mason, Vol.3 p. 95