Secular Charlotte Mason
For The Modern Homeschool Family Living the Educational Life
Introduction
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.
KodyGirl (grammar stage)
Language Arts:
Megawords
IEW (at her request)
Math:
Miquon Math
Life of Fred, supplemented by I don't know what yet
World History:
Living Books only
US History:
An Elementary History of Our Country
A Young People's History of the United States (just wish it was as well-written as the original)
Science:
R.E.A.L. Science Odyssey: Chemistry level 1
supplemented w/ Real Science 4 Kids: Chemistry level 1
Angora Rabbit Project for 4H
Handwriting:
Italics: Beautiful Handwriting for Children
Nature Studies:
Keepers of Life (she wants to focus on plants)
Tide (logic stage)
World History:
Learning Through History magazines (interest based but in chrono-order)
A Little History of the World
US History
An Elementary History of Our Country
History of US
A Young People People's History of the United States
Language Arts:
Megawords (for spelling & dictation mostly)
Math:
Life of Fred
Science:
Real Science 4 Kids: Chemistry level2
Geography:
Discovering the World Around Us grades 5&6 (cont. from last year)
Handwriting:
Italics: Beautiful Handwriting for Children
Drakon (rhetoric stage )
World History:
Trisms: Discoveries of the Ancient World
US History:
Living books only
Geography:
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:
Handwriting:
Italics: Beautiful Handwriting for Children
Literature:
Great Courses: Mark Twain lecture & the books it discusses
Math:
VideoText Geometry
Nature Studies:
Kamana (from the Wilderness Awareness School)
Basic Skills:
A Rule Bookbook for Arguments
7 Habits of Highly Effective Teens (book & workbook)
