Our Charlotte Mason Curriculum

This was written in 2004 and is an archive of our previous home ed style for posterity.

This year I am working my way through the Ambleside Online, Charlotte Mason Year One reading list with my six year old. As I go I am investigating Sonlight, looking at “Living Book” lists, dipping into other types of Classical Education methods and getting as many ideas from others as I can about great books that bring what is worth knowing about to life. We aren’t particularly religious and my daughter doesn’t have a massive concentration span (nor do I feel an overwhelming need to moralise to her!) so I have adapted what I have found to suit “us” and I am making a record of what we do here so that should it be useful to revisit this level with my other children, I will be able to remember what we liked and how we approached it. I anticipate we will expand it further as we come across more and more books through the year.

This is therefore a record of what we have liked, in levels and quantities that have suited us. It draws from what is celebrated by many sources but puts it into a framework that we are enjoying and in no way pretends to be an example of an particular “form of curriculum” – equally, although its giving us great pleasure to use this as part of our week, I do not suggest that it is a complete educational curriculum on its own :~)

You may find it useful to visit various Online Libraries where non-copyright literature can be found. I will also be adding links to Amazon so you can buy the books we are using, if you wish. I will put these through my planner and also on a separate page as and when I have the time.