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) 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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