Branches & Vine Cottage School
  • ABOUT US
    • Welcome From the Director
    • Parents' Required Reading
    • Calvary South Dayton
    • Charlotte Mason Resources >
      • AmblesideOnline
      • The New Mason Jar Podcast
      • CM's 20 Principles
      • Delectable Education
      • The Literary Life Podcast
      • Habit Formation
  • LIVING CURRICULUM
  • COTTAGE SCHOOL LIFE
  • WHY CHOOSE US
  • ADMISSIONS
    • Full Day & Half-Day Options
    • Fees (2025-2026)
    • Enrollment Steps & Interest Form
    • New Student Application Form
  • PARENT PORTAL MAIN
    • Returning Student Form
    • Online Payment
    • Parents' Required Reading
    • 2024-2025 Portal Docs
    • T3: Wk 5 (Apr 14-17)
    • T3: Wk 4 (Apr 7-10)
    • T3: Wk 3 (Mar 31-Apr 3)
    • T3: Wk 2 (Mar 24-27)
    • T3: Wk 1 (Mar 17-20)

Discipline of Good Habits of Thought & Life

Habit Formation

An important component of a Charlotte Mason education is an emphasis on "habit training." 
Sow an act, reap a habit; sow a habit, reap a character; sow a character, reap a destiny!
We focus on sowing thoughts and acts that reap good habits. This is so children will be established in the paths of righteousness (character and destiny).

Decency & Propriety Habits

Humility
Cleanliness
Courtesy
Kindness
Manners
Modesty & Purity
Neatness
Order
Regularity
Candor
Courage
Diligence
Fortitude
Generosity
Gentleness
Meekness
Patience
Respect for Other People
Temperance
​Thrift

Mental Habits

Attentiveness
Imagination
Meditation
Memorizing
Mental Effort
Observation
Reading for Instruction
Remembering
Thinking
Accuracy
Concentration
Reflection
Thoroughness

Moral Habits

Humility
Wisdom
​Justice
​Integrity
Obedience
Personal Initiative
Reverence
Self-Control
Even Temper
Truthfulness
​Usefulness

Physical Habits

Health
Managing One's Own Body
Music
Outdoor Life
Quick Perception of Senses
Self-Discipline
EMAIL US WITH QUESTIONS!
All applicants and BVCS parents are expected to have read: For the Children's Sake by Susan Schaeffer Macaulay and In Vital Harmony by Karen Glass. Our families must be supportive of classically-based Charlotte Mason principles and methods to ensure that your hopes for your children resonate with our vision and priorities for B&V, and are in keeping with the philosophical distinctives of our work.
ENROLLMENT STEPS
​[email protected]
​(937) 825 1248
​3150 W ALEX BELL, DAYTON, OH 45449
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Branches & Vine Cottage School is a four-day Charlotte Mason/Classical Cottage School walking alongside families located in Dayton, Ohio.

Abiding in Christ and His Word, aligning with Charlotte Mason’s classically-based principles, and partnering alongside parents ... we spread a rich and varied feast of a life-giving education (truth, goodness, beauty) through three-fold knowledge with deepening relationships (God, humanity, universe). Our three instruments of education are atmosphere, discipline, and life.

This is to be used by the Holy Spirit in transforming students to genuinely love the Lord and others, lead gracious and flourishing lives of knowledge, understanding, and wisdom, and bear much fruit for His glory. (Deut 6:4-9, Prov. 24:3-4; John 15:1-11)
“I am the VINE, you are the BRANCHES. He who abides in Me, and I in him, bears much fruit; for without Me you can do nothing." John 15:5

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A 501c3 educational
​ministry initiative of
​Calvary South Dayton​
  • ABOUT US
    • Welcome From the Director
    • Parents' Required Reading
    • Calvary South Dayton
    • Charlotte Mason Resources >
      • AmblesideOnline
      • The New Mason Jar Podcast
      • CM's 20 Principles
      • Delectable Education
      • The Literary Life Podcast
      • Habit Formation
  • LIVING CURRICULUM
  • COTTAGE SCHOOL LIFE
  • WHY CHOOSE US
  • ADMISSIONS
    • Full Day & Half-Day Options
    • Fees (2025-2026)
    • Enrollment Steps & Interest Form
    • New Student Application Form
  • PARENT PORTAL MAIN
    • Returning Student Form
    • Online Payment
    • Parents' Required Reading
    • 2024-2025 Portal Docs
    • T3: Wk 5 (Apr 14-17)
    • T3: Wk 4 (Apr 7-10)
    • T3: Wk 3 (Mar 31-Apr 3)
    • T3: Wk 2 (Mar 24-27)
    • T3: Wk 1 (Mar 17-20)