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I'm currently homeschooling my
daughter, roughly, using the Charlotte Mason (CM)
approach. We use a secular approach to it (vs the
Christian approach which is most often attributed to CM)
and tweak it wherever necessary for our purposes.
There's all kinds of great info on
the net about Charlotte Mason Education, just google her
name and you'll find more info than you'll ever read. :)
I thought I'd share some
information and
booklists here, for those that might be attempting to
use this approach secularly as well.
Below are CM resources
that I've compiled, from sources such as the
Secular Charlotte Mason Group at Yahoo. I've tried
to keep this info secular, but I've found that even some
of the religious CM info can also be useful to secular
CM'rs like myself. So I choose to not, as they say,
"throw the baby out with the bath water." I will try to
mark non-secular resources as possible...just realize
that as of the writing of this, pretty much every CM
resource out there is religious based, except for these
pages and the SecularCM yahoogroup.
You can find the info in these
pages divided by main topics:
History/Geography
The Arts
Literature
Language Arts
Math/Science/Nature
Charlotte Mason Books (about and
by):
Charlotte Mason's Original
Homeschooling Series (6 volume set), by Charlotte
Mason...
available
free online...along with a
Modern English translation
A Charlotte Mason Education, by Catherine Levison and
More Charlotte Mason Education, by Catherine Levison--by far the most popular and easy to read of all the
books about CM education. (not secular, but tolerably
religious) A Charlotte Mason Companion, by Karen Andreola--NOT secular, have to filter religious content
Charlotte Mason
Info Sites & Articles:
A Full Life: The Works of Charlotte Mason--a blog
that goes through the original homeschool series by CM
Penny Gardner--Charlotte Mason approach to home
education (not secular)
Ambleside Online--CM info site with free curriculum
and booklists (NOT secular, VERY Christian! But still a
lot of great info!)
Simply Charlotte Mason--lots of great CM info and
resources...not secular
A Charlotte Mason Education, A Basic Tutorial
Mater Amabalis ("mother most amiable"), a free
online Catholic Charlotte Mason curriculum for the 21st
century--not secular, but still has useable info
4 Real Learning (another Catholic CM site) &
"Real Learning" blog, both by Elizabeth Foss
Here in the Bonny Glen--blog about home education
and fun learning resources--by children's author (a
series of books about Laura Ingalls' mother and
grandmothers) and Charlotte Mason hs'ing mother Melissa
Wiley...this is a Catholic author, but very low-key.
Some of Melissa's
particularly relevant to CM entries:
Tidal Homeschooling
Strategic Strewing
Home Education: Delicious and Nutritious
Rabbit trails
Why some families can't afford not to homeschool
Catherine Levison's website (author of "A Charlotte
Mason Education" and "More Charlotte Mason Education)
Resource Sites:
Rainbow Resource Center--online book store
Tanglewood Education (an incomplete online
curriculum which is a combo of Classical & CM)
Classical Home Education (not specifically CM, but
classical, but very good resources that work with CM)
Queen Homeschool--CM supplier, not secular, but
there are still good books to be found
Books-a-Million--online book store
BookCloseOuts.com--online book store
Chinaberry--online book store/catalog
Dover Publications--historical coloring books,
educational books, etc...
The 4 Real Learning Booklist--not secular, but
easily secularized.
Real Learning Nature Booklist--not secular
Living Learning Books--not secular, but easy to omit
the religious aspects, should you so choose
Dawn
Publications--book seller, secular, "Sharing Nature
With Children Books"
The
Baldwin Online Children's Literature Project
Abebooks--"new and used books, textbooks, rare and
out-of-print books"
Nothing New Press--"curriculum honoring the ancient
paths"--Guerber books come with recommended reading
lists to go with the chapters of the books
Beautiful Feet Books
Horn Recommended Books List
Other Resource Books:
Books to Build On: A
Grade-by-Grade Resource Guide for Parents and Teachers
(Core Knowledge Series), by E. D. Hirsch Jr.
The Complete Home Learning
Source Book: The Essential Resource Guide for
Homeschoolers, Parents, and Educators Covering Every
Subject from Arithmetic to Zoology, by Rebecca Rupp
World Religions: The World's Religions: Our Great Wisdom Traditions, by Huston Smith
The Story of Religion, by Betsey Maestro
The Usborne Book of World Religions
Sacred Myths: Stories of World Religions, by Marilyn McFarlane
A faith like mine: A Celebration of the world's religions through the eyes of children" by Laura BullerTaoism and the Tao de Ching
Cosmologies
The Family Virtues Guide: Simple Ways to Bring Out the Best in Our Children and Ourselves by Linda Kavelin Popov--quotes
different religious views
Religion Facts
BuddhaNet
Religious Tolerance
books by author Demi
DK Children's Illustrated Bible, retold by Selina Hastings, with illustrations by
Eric Thomas (ISBN #0-7566-0261-0)--Hastings has a degree in English Lit and
Language from Oxford, which means that the stories are
treated as stories. And the book's religious
consultants include a couple of reverends, a nun, a
rabbi, among others; with one historical consultant each
for the Old and New Testaments.
Skeptics Annotated Bible
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