Classical Charlotte Mason Homeschool

Classical and Charlotte Mason educational homeschooling methods are very complimentary. Our homeschool is a lovely hybrid blend of both. By sharing our curriculum, our desire is to give you ideas and resources that will make your homeschool more vibrant.

There is no need to ever try and mimic someone else’s curriculum exactly. Your children, I guarantee, are different from mine and have different needs and different interests. Being able to cater to those needs and interests is part of what makes homeschool so great!

If planning your homeschool is overwhelming, we offer homeschool mentoring services to help you on your way.

Things to know about our homeschool:

• Our goal is to give our children the tools to think critically and express themselves well, appreciate the beauty of the world around them, and to foster a spirit of lifelong learning.
• We have a 4 day homeschool schedule based on our curriculum, with the 5th day each week consisting of:  field trips, interest led learning, big projects that require a lot of time and mess, or life skill days.
• We do Morning Time every day.
• We alternate between Nature Study and a Science Curriculum on different days.
• We always include outdoor time when we can as part of our day.
• We believe in the power of the moral imagination and training it through good literature.

These are the guides we use to choose our curriculum and the literature we use for reading aloud and strewing around our home.

Our Homeschool Morning Basket

You can see this post about our homeschool morning basket which is a part of both the Kindergarten and 2nd Grade curriculum. Having morning time has really helped us to center our homeschool day and begin each morning with intention. We have morning time every day. It takes about an hour and allows us to work through a large portion of our daily curriculum.

Kindergarten Homeschool Curriculum

TLDR: You can watch an overview! The links for everything are listed below.

We decided to begin using Memoria Press as our curriculum base last spring. It has been awesome to have a large portion of our studies planned out for me.

While I love planning our curriculum myself, it is a busy season for us and this change helped me feel less overwhelmed and more prepared. Everything still gets laid out in my Charlotte Mason Complete Homeschool Planner. Everything is still very rich in beautiful literature, poetry, and art. And we are all feeling more successful with this adjustment. You do what makes your family thrive!

Our Classical Charlotte Mason Kindergarten Homeschool Curriculum

• Memoria Press Kindergarten Manual
• Memoria Press 1st Grade Manual and Storytime and More Storytime Treasures
• Books required for Kindergarten and Read Alouds
• My Nature Journal and nature books for exploration and discovery
• My Book of Centuries
• The Mystery of History
• ShillerMath
• Living Math – Life of Fred, Sir Cumference, Lollipop Logic
• A plethora of Audible books including Thornton Burgess, The Chronicles of Narnia, Anne of Green Gables, and 5 Children and It
• Apologia Astronomy and Junior Notebooking Journal (You can see our Astronomy activities here.)
• Big Life Journal printed by the Homeschool Printing Company
• McGuffey’s Eclectic Primer and McGuffey’s Pictorial Primer
• Reading Eggs
• Disturb Us, Lord cursive copywork
• Plus our morning time, piano for Mr. F with Hoffman Academy, handicrafts, life skills, and just our day to day learning.

 

Our current favorites from the Kindergarten selections:

 The Story Bible Roxaboxen A Child’s Book of Poems The Story of Ferdinand Follow the Dream: The Story of Christopher Columbus The Frogs and Toads All Sang

 

2nd Grade Homeschool Curriculum

TLDR: You can watch an overview! The links for everything are listed below.

Our Classical Charlotte Mason Second Grade Homeschool Curriculum

• Memoria Press 1st Grade manual (we are finishing it since we only started it last spring)
• Memoria Press 2nd Grade manual (and accompanying books are waiting on the shelf)
• Books required for Storytime Treasures and More Storytime Treasures
• Read Aloud selections
• Spelling Workout B
• A Contented Heart devotional study from Not Consumed
• My Nature Journal and nature books for exploration and discovery
• My Book of Centuries and lots of audiobooks of historical fiction, documentaries, and living history books.
• The Mystery of History
• ShillerMath
• Living Math – Life of Fred, Sir Cumference, Lollipop Logic
• A plethora of Audible books including Mr. Popper’s Penguins, BFG, Chronicles of Narnia, and Treasure Island
• Apologia Astronomy and Junior Notebooking Journal (You can see our Astronomy activities here.)
• Big Life Journal printed by the Homeschool Printing Company
• MindPlay
• Reading Eggs
• Disturb Us, Lord cursive copywork
• Plus our morning time, guitar lessons beginning soon, handicrafts, life skills, and just our day to day learning.

Our Current Favorites from the 1st Grade selections:

 Billy and Blaze The Glorious Flight: Across the Channel with Louis Bleriot July 25, 1909 Little Bear Stone Soup Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel The Ink Garden of Brother Theophane

Whew! That seems like a lot, but the bulk of it is great literature and notebooks to record what we learn in. What is your family learning with this year?

See last year’s curriculum post here!