Making Your Dream of a Charlotte Mason Homeschool in Your Own Home a Reality
Charlotte Mason’s methods of teaching have stood the test of time and live on today! Charlotte Mason Homeschools can be found all around the world. In fact, your own home can be a “Charlotte Mason Homeschool,” and you can be your children’s Charlotte Mason-inspired teacher! You don’t need to read Charlotte Mason’s six-volume series, though you certainly may if you have the time and the desire. You don’t need any special training. This is right within your reach today at this very moment. Your children can receive an excellent, inspirational, wholesome, and complete Charlotte Mason education, and you can be their teacher. It is that simple. That can be your story. It is my story, and I want to pay it forward!
I want you to make your dream of teaching your own children in a Charlotte Mason Homeschool that resides right within your own home a reality. Oh, I know, you began reading about Charlotte Mason’s methods and found yourself inspired. You made a mental list… or a written list… or a dictated list on your phone. As that list grew, however, you began to feel overwhelmed…
A Charlotte Mason Homeschool To-Do List
- First, find living books that inspire your children to learn… for basically all subject areas.
- Second, plan short, varied lessons for your youngers… and longer, more in-depth lessons for your olders.
- Third, choose excellent copywork of quotes, Bible verses, and poetry… and make sure it matches the topics of children’s lessons and their abilities.
- Fourth, use dictation passages to teach spelling… and make sure they match your children’s abilities and increase in difficulty in an intentional sort of way.
- Fifth, encourage your children to orally narrate… and know how to use this as an assessment of what they’ve learned.
- Sixth, around age nine or ten, expect children to read their own books and write their own narrations… and edit them somehow.
- Seventh, move through history chronologically… and connect timelines, geography, and projects to the history.
- Eighth, plan science, literature, math, a nature study, a poetry study, a hymn study, a picture study, a composer study, and a Bible study with repetition, memorization, and recitation.
- Ninth, repeat steps one through eight for the rest of your children.
- Tenth, I CAN’T DO THIS!
A Charlotte Mason Curriculum
Many homeschools never come to fruition because of this to-do list – mine almost didn’t! Here I am, however, more than two decades later, and I have a Charlotte Mason Homeschool in my own home. I am a Charlotte Mason Homeschool teacher. My oldest two children attended my Charlotte Mason Homeschool from Preschool through 12th Grade, and they have gone on to do marvelous things! My youngest, now a junior in high school, still attends my Charlotte Mason Homeschool, and for a few more glorious years, I will still be his Charlotte Mason Homeschool teacher.
Heart of Dakota Curriculum worked through that entire Charlotte Mason To-Do List and made my dream a reality! I wake up each morning and thank the Lord for making it possible for me to have a Charlotte Mason Homeschool in my own home for me to be the best teacher I can be. This can be your story too. It can be your children’s story too. Let the Lord – and Heart of Dakota – lead the way! Heart of Dakota covers everything on this Charlotte Mason to-do list and more. Furthermore, it does it in such an inspirational, manageable, and enjoyable way that your homeschooling won’t fizzle in the first year. Instead, it will flourish to the end! If you have questions, reach out to Heart of Dakota! Everyone you talk to has either taught in their own Charlotte Mason Homeschool or attended their own Charlotte Mason-inspired homeschool using Heart of Dakota curriculum. And we love to help!
In Christ,
Julie
