Secular Charlotte Mason

If you visit this page you may notice that it changes fairly often. That is because approximately every 3 to 6 months I talk with each of the kids to determine what is and is not working for them and then I tweak things based on that.  I admit it, I am a tweaker when it comes to homeschooling.  I am incapable of using things as-is and I am not hesitant to drop a resource or material if the kids, or I, are finding it stale. This page is for the more curriculum based products that we use in addition to  all the literature, narrations, music, art, nature studies and handicrafts that we do.  One nice thing, with a CM education, we are using far less curricula than when we were doing a more traditional classical education.

 Language Arts:

English for the Thoughtful Child

Megawords

Math:

Miquon Math

Singapore Math

US Geography:

Which Way USA maps & activity books (from Highlight Magazine publisher)

From Sea to Shining Sea series

World History:

SOTW Activity Guide

A Little History of the World

US History:

This Country of Ours

Science:

R.E.A.L. Science Odyssey: Chemistry level 1

supplemented w/ Real Science 4 Kids: Chemistry level 1

Handwriting:

Italics: Beautiful Handwriting for Children

Classes: focused on handicrafts

Knitting

Organic Gardening

Folk Dancing

World History:

Trisms: History Makers

A Little History of the World

US History 1800s:

A History of US, This Country of Ours

Language Arts:

Megawords (for spelling & dictation mostly)

Institute for Excellence in Writing (as part of Trisms)

Math:

Singapore, Saxon, or Key To; probably Saxon

Science:

 Real Science 4 Kids: Chemistry level2

Geography:

Discovering the World Around Us grades 5&6 (cont. from last year)

Trisms: History Makers

Handwriting:

Italics: Beautiful Handwriting for Children

 Classes: focus on passions/fun classes

Writer's Wish

Open Studio

Rock Block (drums)

EdChoices: All Prep Academies for general math, grammar, psychology, Latin, etc.

A flexible online public school for Oregon homeschoolers

World History: 

Trisms: Discoveries of the Ancient World

Geography:

Discovering the World Around Us grades 7 & 8 (cont. from last year)

Trisms: Discoveries of the Ancient World

Language Arts:

Megawords

Institute for Excellence in Writing student DVDs (as part of Trisms)

The Well-Educated Mind (excerpts) 

Latin:

Rosetta Stone

Handwriting:

Italics: Beautiful Handwriting for Children

Math:

VideoText Algebra 

Nature Studies:

Kamana (from the Wilderness Awareness School) 

Basic Skills:

A Rule Bookbook for Arguments

7 Habits of Highly Effective Teens (book & workbook) 

Classes: academic/passion focused

Shakespeare

Lies My Teacher Told Me (US History)

Science Bowl

First Tech Challenge

**since science is one of his strengths and our local options for science don't have great labs or are lacking in scope and sequence he will wait and take science at the local community college in a year or two.