Kinderlaben

Warrenton, VA

Group

The Fox Shire

Welcome to the Fox Shire!
We are a joyful community of homeschooling families gathered under the gentle guidance of Charlotte Mason’s educational philosophy. At the Fox Shire, we believe education is an atmosphere, a discipline, and a life—a feast of living ideas spread abundantly before our children.
Together we:
• Build true community — where families encourage one another, children form lasting friendships, and mothers find fellowship and support.
• Nourish minds with living books and ideas — choosing literature that is alive with beauty, truth, and goodness rather than dry textbooks, so that children form real relationships with knowledge.
• Spread the feast — offering a rich, generous curriculum that includes great literature, history, science, nature study, art, music, poetry, and more. Each child assimilates what they can, growing in wonder and wisdom at their own pace.
• Embrace riches-based education — delighting in the “riches” of life: beautiful books, fine art, inspiring music, the outdoors, handicrafts, and the cultivation of good habits of mind and heart.
We host a weekly Riches Co-op where children gather to enjoy:
• Picture study
• Composer study
• Handicrafts
• Literature
• Nature study and journaling
• Recitation
• Poetry
• And scouting
These sessions bring the riches to life in a shared, delightful way—through observation, creation, narration, and exploration outdoors.
We also offer a Mothers’ Book Club where we read and discuss both Charlotte Mason’s own writings and other nourishing books to strengthen our vision, refresh our spirits, and grow alongside one another as educators and mothers.

book discussion, homeschool co-op, Kinderlaben, Living Books, Mother Culture, nature study

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