Customizing a Curriculum for my Charlotte Mason Homeschool
Do we sometimes expect too much from our homeschooling curriculum? Obviously it’s important. A crucial part of the Charlotte Mason philosophy is to give our kids a broad and generous education. A curriculum certainly helps me make sure that we get the proportions right.
But just because curriculum is a valuable tool, doesn’t mean that we have to follow it to a t. Instead, we need to consider our kids, our circumstances, even our location, and make a curriculum work for us. That’s exactly what I’ve set out to do this year. I talk all about it in the video below.
Customizing Ambleside Online to Work for my Family
In this video
00:27 Where we are in homechooling and what we are using for our curriculum
00:48 What we are taking into account as we apply our curriculum
01:25 Changes to history curriculum
01:58 Geography
02:28 Nature Study
03:35 Picture Study
04:25 Folk Songs and Hymns
05:25 Why we can have freedom with curriculum
Resources mentioned in this video
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Teaching from Rest by Sarah Mackenzie
Birds of the Air by Arabella Buckley
Ambleside Online Artist Rotation
Video on folk songs and hymns
A letter from me to you, every week.
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