My name is America, mother of 3, and I homeschool my oldest two children. Join me as we adapt Charlotte Mason's principles for a realistic, heartfelt, and rich home education.
Thank you for this video! I have a friend who is curiously enough pulling out of a gentle CM style co op, enrolling her oldest two 2 children in a hybrid because she says she has to do a lot of prep for her CMEC curriculum. To me, something is amiss there. I have been schooling my kids for over a decade, almost two decades. I Read Home Education early on in my journey. Keep my schooling as close to CM as I can, enjoying my family, protecting my children’s wonder and awe. I don’t think it’s that complicated. I love a book called Pocket Full of Pine Cones and truly it gave me a guide as to what I wanted my homeschool to be like. I believe if anyone wants to school CM they need to read Pocket Full of Pine Cones by Karen Andreola. Charlotte Mason was certainly not a busy momma with a couple of toddlers and babies in tow. Her style looks a lot different in real life with a large family and household full of chores. It definitely is not loading up the momma with a dozen individual subjects for each one of her children.
@BC-fd8bf3 күн бұрын
This is great! My kids are on the younger side still so this hits more where we are at currently. Thanks for the video! 🩷
@adventureswiththemacs80664 күн бұрын
I’m overwhelmed. Seems like SO much… maybe I’m just not doing enough.
@AHeartForHomeEducation3 күн бұрын
Oh nooo, please don't feel like that!! These are all the books for the whole year - so we won't be doing each of these every day or every week! One of my upcoming videos will be about how I'm scheduling, and you'll see that it breaks down into very reasonable pieces, where we're only reading out of 2 or 3 books per day. And if it turns out to be too much (it very well could turn out that way since it's my first time doing my own thing) then I will drop things with no guilt! Pleaseeeee don't feel like what you're doing is inadequate. Your school picks and mine may look totally different in number and area of study, but if we can both still be feasting!!
@adventureswiththemacs80664 күн бұрын
I may have missed it… how many days will you be doing ancient history?
@AHeartForHomeEducation3 күн бұрын
2x per week!
@adventureswiththemacs80664 күн бұрын
I would love to know your thoughts on beautiful feet books vs story of three world vs peaceful press. Hahaha I’m in analysis paralysis 🥴
@JessicaJosie4 күн бұрын
I’d love info about the gloves and knives your kids were using in the intro video. My son (6yo) loves bushcraft/whittling but I’m nervous about a sharper knife than a butter knife. 😂 I’d love a booklist also, I love seeing what others are loving for this age.
@carolinagarcia97124 күн бұрын
❤beautiful
@lacienlw4 күн бұрын
More kinderlaben!
@gingerdillard16644 күн бұрын
Yes~ book list, please!
@amandabrown48954 күн бұрын
God is your message. Thank you!!! ❤❤❤
@berrypatch55834 күн бұрын
A wonderful okdfashioned kindergarten we love in our hone is Christian Lights Kindergarten 2 program. It is so calming, basic and since I notice that we do a lot of the same things with our little ones, so I thought I would share.
@homeschoollifemom4 күн бұрын
I have a kinder this year. I would love the literature list! ❤
@OurMessyHouse5 күн бұрын
We loved the historical fiction “Calpurnia Tate girl vet” series. Also the good and the beautiful “glass lake” series with the animal field guides.
@OurMessyHouse5 күн бұрын
We chose to do math u see as well this year! I was able to get all the teacher guides and videos for about $3 a piece on eBay. Wish I could find the work book more affordable but that’s ok. We also printed out some art/math pages from the good and the beautiful as practice sheets for her. She loves the beautiful art filled pages. They are free online if you are ever curious! You can print whatever your child might be having a hard time grasping and add it in. I find since we lean CM my daughter is really into beautiful things 😅
@OurMessyHouse5 күн бұрын
Beautiful content! Subscribed ❤
@Berserk_Alize35 күн бұрын
I love the idea of a USA day. Does this country of ours require other complimentary books? Or is that your choice? Thank you!
@AHeartForHomeEducation3 күн бұрын
It doesn't require anything additional; we just prefer picture books or to dig deeper into certain concepts as we see fit :)
@UlyGooly5 күн бұрын
I jave both Bestoeing the Brush and Lily & Thistle. I am loving the former but my children prefer the latter. 😅 It is what it is. I am happy with both.
@AHeartForHomeEducation3 күн бұрын
Wonderful! I will look into the other one as well!
@janetstover77935 күн бұрын
Please share your kinderleben books. Thank you for another great video.
@janetstover77935 күн бұрын
Please share your kinderleben books. Thank you for another great video.
@janetstover77935 күн бұрын
Please share your kinderleben books. Thank you for another great video.
@MissSasha09185 күн бұрын
Yes, please, more kinderlaben! We are in the research and prep phase!
@Lamamalou5 күн бұрын
Yes to book recommendations! getting ready to gear up for Kinderblen.
@migdalahb5 күн бұрын
My son just turned 5 so I would love to see your favorite books for that age!
@Lrschristy6 күн бұрын
I’ve got a Kinderleben child this coming school year too, and would love to see your video about Kinder reads!
@rachaelpierson34706 күн бұрын
Would also love to see how you use Abeka more for LA with a Charlotte Mason spin. Do you follow a teacher manual?
@rachaelpierson34706 күн бұрын
Would Love to see the list!
@CullenClan6 күн бұрын
Kinder here ✋🏽 please share list ❤
@elenawiggins28286 күн бұрын
I’d love to see your video of favorite kinder books! I have a 4 yr old who’s turning 5 in September, so my plan looks pretty similar to yours! I’m using kinder TGAB language arts and math since it was free but won’t require it; just use it to help introduce or continue concepts we’ve already started gently. Our morning time during breakfast consists of looping Bible, scripture memory, catechism, folk sin, hymn, and manners/virtue (I have sweetly illustrated flash cards with a woodland creature and a virtue, and I make up a story of that animal practicing or not practicing that virtue and the result). I may dabble in narration, but only as practice, not requiring it, though he naturally narrates after a story by wanting to act out whatever we just read
@stephanies75317 күн бұрын
THANK YOU. I am relatively new to CM although I've been homeschooling for 9 years. I started out following Well Trained Mind and gradually moved to CM style while reading her Vol. 6 and many Karen Glass books. In an effort to just take the CM plunge and go all in, I joined the CMEC for 24/25. I spent ALLLLLLL of last summer planning, prepping, pre-reading and creating a time table. I did not enjoy summer at all. And two weeks into term one, I dumped the time table and went back to a loop schedule for our morning time and group subjects, and gave my kids a suggested schedule and let them plan their individual time how they wanted (they are 11 and 13). It is very easy in a world of CM purists to feel inadequate, but I think you are 100% right. I have often wondered what Charlotte would say to us today. What she created her programs for was actually quite different from a family homeschool environment and i don't think she would say it all would be practical implemented just so. I did not join the CMEC again this year because i thought there has to be a more practical application of her methods for today's homeschool. The timetable was the first clue.
@LearningPlantingGrowing9 күн бұрын
If you were interested in in a little spark of fun and flair in a very nature based and beautiful way. Hearth Magic on Etsy has a wonderful literature unit for Eind in the Willows. My children love when I sprinkle one in occasionally because it’s unlike any book companion I have ever seen. It’s fun and nature based and very creative!
@rachaelpierson347011 күн бұрын
Curious about Abeka. Do you need the instructors guide? Is there any information on when to introduce the readers when?
@jessicaTX96412 күн бұрын
The Smithsonian Channel has a series called "Ariel America" that is so good for giving that sense of what a state looks like and some of the history and unique culture of each state.
@AHeartForHomeEducation3 күн бұрын
Thank you for this!
@maite882812 күн бұрын
I feel that when I read aloud a history lesson it takes me 15-20 minutes and it doesn’t leave the kids appropriate time to write. How do you balance your minutes?
@kellymckay47212 күн бұрын
Thank you so much for this video! I find your take on the CMEC (and all the CM options out there) so very helpful as I begin my own homeschool journey with my kids! On a side note-- can you share a link for the wall calendar & world map that you have?! Thank you! :)
@kathy-junecolwell658313 күн бұрын
What a lovely video. Well said. Do you know of a similar style of video that talks about The Alveary?
@Dreblueskies16 күн бұрын
Do you think the Abeka Handbook could be used to improve a newer reader in sounding out words better?
@AHeartForHomeEducation16 күн бұрын
Abeka uses a very different approach to phonics, but I think maybe practice with their blend letters may be helpful? They have a "my blend book" that has just blend ladders. Depending on the level of your child, you could re-start at the beginning and fly through the first couple of chapters, just so your child understands the approach.
@Dreblueskies15 күн бұрын
@@AHeartForHomeEducation Thank you for that suggestion, at least it’s fairly inexpensive to try.
@sharniejaeschke5216 күн бұрын
Thanks for these videos, can't wait to see your living timetable to see how it all comes together!
@elizabethjohnson707116 күн бұрын
I am blessed by your homeschool videos! And I’d just like to say that I related so much to your comment on being the mom watching other moms homeschool videos and feeling inadequate. There is a specific channel/podcast that I listen because everything she says is such pure gold when it comes to a classical Charlotte Mason education, yet I leave the episodes feeling educated yet discourage. I don’t think it is on purpose but her content paints a picture of Charlotte Mason perfection, that her children are perfectly habit trained, that their lessons go flawlessly, etc. Rarely does she ever tell of relatable real life interruptions in her homeschool or with her family. It leaves this mom feeling like my homeschool could never measure up and that my children are missing out on a perfect education.
@AHeartForHomeEducation16 күн бұрын
Thank you for sharing that. Honestly, this is a huge reason I started this channel - because of content like that! We can hold ourselves to high standard of excellency in our homeschool and treat it with care and serious attention, but real life still happens, and we ought not get discouraged by what real life looks like! I want to share the balance of pursuing the excellence Mason, the classical tradition, and ultimately Christian parenting call us to, while still reminding myself and other mothers that perfection isn't attainable, and real life can and does still happen in the Mason home. I've had seasons where I've been tempted to give up Mason's ways altogether when I was in a spot of only hearing the highlight reel of someone else's homeschool journey. I felt burdened to share my experience with the CMEC and now I'm still sharing for the same reasons. Thanks for being here, Elizabeth! 🤍
@aliebutterfield308816 күн бұрын
Wow, I had the opposite issue with the lesson plans. I found it so freeing to not have daily lesson plans. I hated AO because I constantly felt behind. I loved that they focus on the time table being the plan. Reading as much as you can in the time allotted and just moving the book mark. I do agree about the books and community.
@MaryBarfield17 күн бұрын
Great video! We are going to be blending more of Charlotte Masons Philosophy into our classical (well trained mind) school year this year and I’m excited to add in all the riches! 🥰 this gave me great ideas for next year so thank you! 🥰
@AHeartForHomeEducation16 күн бұрын
I;m so happy to hear this! Thank you for watching! I hope you have a great CM and classical year!
@MaryBarfield17 күн бұрын
Great video! We are going to be blending more of Charlotte Masons Philosophy into our classical (well trained mind) school year this year and I’m excited to add in all the riches! 🥰 this gave me great ideas for next year so thank you! 🥰
@katiedixon175618 күн бұрын
I'm so glad I found your channel. You have such a sweet, calming voice. We are going into year 7 of homeschooling, but our first year 100% CM. We absolutely LOVE Little Pilgrim's Progress. It's so, so good❤. I'd love to hear you talk a little bit more about notebooking. We have our nature journals. We will add in a book of centuries which I find very intimidating. I'm thinking I need to add a commonplace book for my 7 yr old and 10 yr old. I'm very much a "notebooker" but not in an organized way. I'm excited for you and your DIY curriculum! 🎉
@AHeartForHomeEducation16 күн бұрын
Thank you for the suggestion! And I'm glad to hear Little Pilgrim's has been a hit for your family. Thank you for the encouragement & for watching 🤍
@reidun1218 күн бұрын
Hi! Love the videos! Quick question: why do you type your son’s narrations? Do you go back to them? I started doing this for my daughter but eventually stopped since we weren’t returning to them. Would love to hear more about this- thanks!
@AHeartForHomeEducation17 күн бұрын
We do like to keep a record of them, and my son is very proud of them! It's incredible seeing his progress from the beginning of the year to the end of the year!
@BC-fd8bf18 күн бұрын
America, I love how you began by couching the skill-based subjects with their purpose and where they fit in the grand scheme of what you are attempting to do with your homeschool. I am inspired by the careful thought you put into your plans and curriculum choices.
@shannonunrau161019 күн бұрын
I was wondering where you got those map coloring books?
@janetstover779321 күн бұрын
Very informative.
@brandi851023 күн бұрын
Your channel and this video are beautiful. Thank you.
@Hopelb23 күн бұрын
I'd love to see how you are planning to schedule out the readings.
@captain747124 күн бұрын
I love your choices! We do Story Of The World as well as AO Year One! I would recommend holding off for Robbin Hood until next year when you can do medieval times as it will flow more smoothly. Of course do what you want and make your own choices, but I try to keep our books as aligned as we can, of course it won’t always work that way but I adapt when I can and don’t worry too much when I can’t. Thank you for more ideas for our homeschool 😊
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Thank you for this video! I have a friend who is curiously enough pulling out of a gentle CM style co op, enrolling her oldest two 2 children in a hybrid because she says she has to do a lot of prep for her CMEC curriculum. To me, something is amiss there. I have been schooling my kids for over a decade, almost two decades. I Read Home Education early on in my journey. Keep my schooling as close to CM as I can, enjoying my family, protecting my children’s wonder and awe. I don’t think it’s that complicated. I love a book called Pocket Full of Pine Cones and truly it gave me a guide as to what I wanted my homeschool to be like. I believe if anyone wants to school CM they need to read Pocket Full of Pine Cones by Karen Andreola. Charlotte Mason was certainly not a busy momma with a couple of toddlers and babies in tow. Her style looks a lot different in real life with a large family and household full of chores. It definitely is not loading up the momma with a dozen individual subjects for each one of her children.
This is great! My kids are on the younger side still so this hits more where we are at currently. Thanks for the video! 🩷
I’m overwhelmed. Seems like SO much… maybe I’m just not doing enough.
Oh nooo, please don't feel like that!! These are all the books for the whole year - so we won't be doing each of these every day or every week! One of my upcoming videos will be about how I'm scheduling, and you'll see that it breaks down into very reasonable pieces, where we're only reading out of 2 or 3 books per day. And if it turns out to be too much (it very well could turn out that way since it's my first time doing my own thing) then I will drop things with no guilt! Pleaseeeee don't feel like what you're doing is inadequate. Your school picks and mine may look totally different in number and area of study, but if we can both still be feasting!!
I may have missed it… how many days will you be doing ancient history?
2x per week!
I would love to know your thoughts on beautiful feet books vs story of three world vs peaceful press. Hahaha I’m in analysis paralysis 🥴
I’d love info about the gloves and knives your kids were using in the intro video. My son (6yo) loves bushcraft/whittling but I’m nervous about a sharper knife than a butter knife. 😂 I’d love a booklist also, I love seeing what others are loving for this age.
❤beautiful
More kinderlaben!
Yes~ book list, please!
God is your message. Thank you!!! ❤❤❤
A wonderful okdfashioned kindergarten we love in our hone is Christian Lights Kindergarten 2 program. It is so calming, basic and since I notice that we do a lot of the same things with our little ones, so I thought I would share.
I have a kinder this year. I would love the literature list! ❤
We loved the historical fiction “Calpurnia Tate girl vet” series. Also the good and the beautiful “glass lake” series with the animal field guides.
We chose to do math u see as well this year! I was able to get all the teacher guides and videos for about $3 a piece on eBay. Wish I could find the work book more affordable but that’s ok. We also printed out some art/math pages from the good and the beautiful as practice sheets for her. She loves the beautiful art filled pages. They are free online if you are ever curious! You can print whatever your child might be having a hard time grasping and add it in. I find since we lean CM my daughter is really into beautiful things 😅
Beautiful content! Subscribed ❤
I love the idea of a USA day. Does this country of ours require other complimentary books? Or is that your choice? Thank you!
It doesn't require anything additional; we just prefer picture books or to dig deeper into certain concepts as we see fit :)
I jave both Bestoeing the Brush and Lily & Thistle. I am loving the former but my children prefer the latter. 😅 It is what it is. I am happy with both.
Wonderful! I will look into the other one as well!
Please share your kinderleben books. Thank you for another great video.
Please share your kinderleben books. Thank you for another great video.
Please share your kinderleben books. Thank you for another great video.
Yes, please, more kinderlaben! We are in the research and prep phase!
Yes to book recommendations! getting ready to gear up for Kinderblen.
My son just turned 5 so I would love to see your favorite books for that age!
I’ve got a Kinderleben child this coming school year too, and would love to see your video about Kinder reads!
Would also love to see how you use Abeka more for LA with a Charlotte Mason spin. Do you follow a teacher manual?
Would Love to see the list!
Kinder here ✋🏽 please share list ❤
I’d love to see your video of favorite kinder books! I have a 4 yr old who’s turning 5 in September, so my plan looks pretty similar to yours! I’m using kinder TGAB language arts and math since it was free but won’t require it; just use it to help introduce or continue concepts we’ve already started gently. Our morning time during breakfast consists of looping Bible, scripture memory, catechism, folk sin, hymn, and manners/virtue (I have sweetly illustrated flash cards with a woodland creature and a virtue, and I make up a story of that animal practicing or not practicing that virtue and the result). I may dabble in narration, but only as practice, not requiring it, though he naturally narrates after a story by wanting to act out whatever we just read
THANK YOU. I am relatively new to CM although I've been homeschooling for 9 years. I started out following Well Trained Mind and gradually moved to CM style while reading her Vol. 6 and many Karen Glass books. In an effort to just take the CM plunge and go all in, I joined the CMEC for 24/25. I spent ALLLLLLL of last summer planning, prepping, pre-reading and creating a time table. I did not enjoy summer at all. And two weeks into term one, I dumped the time table and went back to a loop schedule for our morning time and group subjects, and gave my kids a suggested schedule and let them plan their individual time how they wanted (they are 11 and 13). It is very easy in a world of CM purists to feel inadequate, but I think you are 100% right. I have often wondered what Charlotte would say to us today. What she created her programs for was actually quite different from a family homeschool environment and i don't think she would say it all would be practical implemented just so. I did not join the CMEC again this year because i thought there has to be a more practical application of her methods for today's homeschool. The timetable was the first clue.
If you were interested in in a little spark of fun and flair in a very nature based and beautiful way. Hearth Magic on Etsy has a wonderful literature unit for Eind in the Willows. My children love when I sprinkle one in occasionally because it’s unlike any book companion I have ever seen. It’s fun and nature based and very creative!
Curious about Abeka. Do you need the instructors guide? Is there any information on when to introduce the readers when?
The Smithsonian Channel has a series called "Ariel America" that is so good for giving that sense of what a state looks like and some of the history and unique culture of each state.
Thank you for this!
I feel that when I read aloud a history lesson it takes me 15-20 minutes and it doesn’t leave the kids appropriate time to write. How do you balance your minutes?
Thank you so much for this video! I find your take on the CMEC (and all the CM options out there) so very helpful as I begin my own homeschool journey with my kids! On a side note-- can you share a link for the wall calendar & world map that you have?! Thank you! :)
What a lovely video. Well said. Do you know of a similar style of video that talks about The Alveary?
Do you think the Abeka Handbook could be used to improve a newer reader in sounding out words better?
Abeka uses a very different approach to phonics, but I think maybe practice with their blend letters may be helpful? They have a "my blend book" that has just blend ladders. Depending on the level of your child, you could re-start at the beginning and fly through the first couple of chapters, just so your child understands the approach.
@@AHeartForHomeEducation Thank you for that suggestion, at least it’s fairly inexpensive to try.
Thanks for these videos, can't wait to see your living timetable to see how it all comes together!
I am blessed by your homeschool videos! And I’d just like to say that I related so much to your comment on being the mom watching other moms homeschool videos and feeling inadequate. There is a specific channel/podcast that I listen because everything she says is such pure gold when it comes to a classical Charlotte Mason education, yet I leave the episodes feeling educated yet discourage. I don’t think it is on purpose but her content paints a picture of Charlotte Mason perfection, that her children are perfectly habit trained, that their lessons go flawlessly, etc. Rarely does she ever tell of relatable real life interruptions in her homeschool or with her family. It leaves this mom feeling like my homeschool could never measure up and that my children are missing out on a perfect education.
Thank you for sharing that. Honestly, this is a huge reason I started this channel - because of content like that! We can hold ourselves to high standard of excellency in our homeschool and treat it with care and serious attention, but real life still happens, and we ought not get discouraged by what real life looks like! I want to share the balance of pursuing the excellence Mason, the classical tradition, and ultimately Christian parenting call us to, while still reminding myself and other mothers that perfection isn't attainable, and real life can and does still happen in the Mason home. I've had seasons where I've been tempted to give up Mason's ways altogether when I was in a spot of only hearing the highlight reel of someone else's homeschool journey. I felt burdened to share my experience with the CMEC and now I'm still sharing for the same reasons. Thanks for being here, Elizabeth! 🤍
Wow, I had the opposite issue with the lesson plans. I found it so freeing to not have daily lesson plans. I hated AO because I constantly felt behind. I loved that they focus on the time table being the plan. Reading as much as you can in the time allotted and just moving the book mark. I do agree about the books and community.
Great video! We are going to be blending more of Charlotte Masons Philosophy into our classical (well trained mind) school year this year and I’m excited to add in all the riches! 🥰 this gave me great ideas for next year so thank you! 🥰
I;m so happy to hear this! Thank you for watching! I hope you have a great CM and classical year!
Great video! We are going to be blending more of Charlotte Masons Philosophy into our classical (well trained mind) school year this year and I’m excited to add in all the riches! 🥰 this gave me great ideas for next year so thank you! 🥰
I'm so glad I found your channel. You have such a sweet, calming voice. We are going into year 7 of homeschooling, but our first year 100% CM. We absolutely LOVE Little Pilgrim's Progress. It's so, so good❤. I'd love to hear you talk a little bit more about notebooking. We have our nature journals. We will add in a book of centuries which I find very intimidating. I'm thinking I need to add a commonplace book for my 7 yr old and 10 yr old. I'm very much a "notebooker" but not in an organized way. I'm excited for you and your DIY curriculum! 🎉
Thank you for the suggestion! And I'm glad to hear Little Pilgrim's has been a hit for your family. Thank you for the encouragement & for watching 🤍
Hi! Love the videos! Quick question: why do you type your son’s narrations? Do you go back to them? I started doing this for my daughter but eventually stopped since we weren’t returning to them. Would love to hear more about this- thanks!
We do like to keep a record of them, and my son is very proud of them! It's incredible seeing his progress from the beginning of the year to the end of the year!
America, I love how you began by couching the skill-based subjects with their purpose and where they fit in the grand scheme of what you are attempting to do with your homeschool. I am inspired by the careful thought you put into your plans and curriculum choices.
I was wondering where you got those map coloring books?
Very informative.
Your channel and this video are beautiful. Thank you.
I'd love to see how you are planning to schedule out the readings.
I love your choices! We do Story Of The World as well as AO Year One! I would recommend holding off for Robbin Hood until next year when you can do medieval times as it will flow more smoothly. Of course do what you want and make your own choices, but I try to keep our books as aligned as we can, of course it won’t always work that way but I adapt when I can and don’t worry too much when I can’t. Thank you for more ideas for our homeschool 😊
Thank you for the input!!
Loving your channel so much!