Secular Charlotte Mason

I wrote this blog post about our decision to homeschool. It includes several interesting links and a pertinent quote from Charlotte Mason's Original Homeschooling Series.

http://wonderinthewoods.wordpress.com/2010/02/18/deciding-to-homeschool/

Cori

P.S. If you are already a seasoned homeschooler, you might enjoy some of the links in the post. Here they are for easy reference:

Myth of Socialization (if you love public school do not read this):

http://school-is-hell.blogspot.com/2007/12/socialization-myth.html

How to Homeschool:

http://www.wikihow.com/Homeschool-Your-Children

One of my inspirations for nature study in all types of weather:

http://women.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/women/families/article5308533.ece

Short Lessons:

http://www.charlottemasoneducation.com/shortlessons.html

Artist Study with many suggestions and helpful links:

http://www.squidoo.com/cmartiststudy

Composer study, includes helpful links:

http://www.amblesideonline.org/ComposerSch.shtml

Handcrafts, why to do them:

http://higherupandfurtherin.blogspot.com/2006/06/handicrafts-should-be-handy.html

Shakespeare, a nice post about getting started:

http://wastedtextbooks.blogspot.com/2009/02/charlotte-mason-minute-shakespeare.html

A chart of subjects for a Charlotte Mason Education:

http://simplycharlottemason.com/planning/scmguide/

A decent summary of Charlotte Mason method:

http://www.charlottemasoneducation.com/overview.html

Charlotte Mason Method Resources:

http://www.secularcm.com/

http://www.charlottemason.com/cmcompanion.html

http://www.amblesideonline.org/CM/toc.html   (The Original Homeschooling Series)

http://www.amazon.com/When-Children-Love-Learn-Application/dp/1581342594

http://www.amblesideonline.org

http://simplycharlottemason.com

Living books, what they are:

http://www.home-school.com/Articles/CharlotteMason.html

Living books touching your heart:

http://www.amblesideonline.org/LivingBks.shtml

What is a Spine? Includes popular spines for history (some may not be secular):

http://www.design-your-homeschool.com/Teaching-History-Spine-book.html

Last Child in the Woods website:

http://richardlouv.com

Ansel Adams who was tutored at home:

http://www.anseladams.com/content/ansel_info/anseladams_biography2.html

A wonderful post on Tidal Learning:

http://melissawiley.com/blog/2006/01/11/tidal-homeschooling/

And the benefits of Free Play:

http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/53699.php