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3 Tips for a Successful Charlotte Mason Homeschool Year
Here are three tips to help you have a successful year homeschooling the Charlotte Mason way.
Category Planning Your Charlotte Mason Education
A simple 5-step process to help you design a plan that works for your family, plus lots of practical tips and ideas to help your homeschool run smoothly.
How to Ease into Formal Lessons in First Grade
Your child has turned six and you're ready to start homeschooling first grade the Charlotte Mason way. How do you start formal lessons?
How to Know You Are Doing Enough
Ever wonder if you are doing enough in your home school? Sonya has some encouragement for you.
Don’t Break Your Home School During Summer Break
Laura Pitney joins Sonya to talk about how to approach summer break without losing all your momentum.
Teach the Child
You can make adjustments to your homeschool curriculum. You have permission.
Before You Switch Curriculum
Amber O'Neal Johnston joins Sonya to discuss what you should think about before you change curriculum.
The Secret to Planning Your Homeschool Day
Here’s the secret to getting through your lessons without needing big breaks. Planning and scheduling your homeschool studies involve several steps. Five steps, really. First, you start with the big overview, then zoom in on this year; then I like…
Making Midyear Adjustments in Your Home School
Sonya and Laura talk about some adjustments they've made in their home schools and share encouragement for readjusting your plans.
2 Ways to Schedule Your Homeschool Day
Today I’d like to walk through two different ways to schedule a school day. Both are viable options. Use the one that fits best during this season of life. Over the years—or even during different terms of a single year—you…
4 Ways to Schedule Your Homeschool Year
Today we’re going to do some slicing and dicing. Not in my kitchen. We’re going to slice and dice a calendar. I want to show you four different ways that you could schedule your school year. Most of us were…
Your Questions Answered: Time to Play
Welcome to another installment of Your Questions Answered. As usual, my friend and co-worker, Laura Pitney is joining me. Here’s the question we’re going to discuss today: For elementary students, how do you balance all the subjects and still give…
Using Subject Cards to Plan Your Homeschool Schedule
Planning for your home school can sometimes seem overwhelming. But let me encourage you that the more you do it, the easier it gets. And today I want to share with you a quick and simple trick I use when…
5 Things to Remember When Planning Your Charlotte Mason Homeschool
It’s that time of year again — the season when many of us get the itch to plan our next school year. Whether you’re just starting out or have been doing this for decades, here are five friendly reminders—just five…
5 Steps to Planning Your Charlotte Mason Education
DIY—Do It Yourself. For some of you, those initials generate great excitement! Images of potential projects arise in your imagination and you can hardly wait to dive into a new one. Others of you get tired just looking at those…
Your Questions Answered: A Smooth Morning of Lessons
My friend and co-worker Laura Pitney joins me again as we answer another of your questions. This time, we’re talking about how to have a smooth morning of lessons. Here’s the question that we want to discuss today: I would…
Your Questions Answered: Organizing Your Home School
My friend and co-worker, Laura Pitney, has joined us today, and we’re going to share some ideas on organizing your Charlotte Mason homeschool. Laura has a real heart to encourage and help other homeschool mamas, plus she’s very organized! So…
How to Finish Lessons by Lunch
I recently did an article called Productive Afternoons, and in it I mentioned that in Charlotte Mason’s schools formal lessons were done by lunch. Well, we received many questions about how lessons could be done by lunch, so I want…
5 Tips for a Smooth Morning
We talk a lot about your school schedule and how to make it work for you and your students. But what about that block of time before school starts? That part of your morning can have a big impact on…
5 Questions to Ask about Your Schedule
A slip of paper. That’s all. A slip of paper. I find it very interesting that the word schedule comes from the Latin for “a slip of paper.” Can you imagine? When Charlotte Mason homeschoolers talk about schedules, somehow it…
Productive Afternoons in Charlotte Mason Homeschooling
I love how, with the Charlotte Mason approach, you’re done with lessons by lunch time. Younger students in her schools were done by 11:30, middle students by 12:00, and older students by 1:00. It’s so refreshing to focus head-down for…