Name: Teach Them Diligently (Branson)
Start: 2025-05-15T00:00:00-05:00
End: 2025-05-17T23:59:59-05:00
Location: Branson, MO

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September 24, 2012 at 5:56 pm
HSMom03
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Hi Everyone! I’m new. I’m trying to get a headstart on gathering materials for next year (for Grade 1). We are using a boxed curriculum this year for K and I am hoping to switch to SCM. I’ve been clicking through the website trying to figure out what I need. What is the quickest, easiest way to do this? I was getting a little confused and it seemed a little tedious to be clicking through all those links for all the different subjects and modules. Let me know if I am missing something. Thanks!
September 25, 2012 at 6:07 am
Amber
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Welcome! There really isn’t much option but to scroll through the guide and click subject by subject. Do you have specific questions regarding recommended materials for each subject?
September 25, 2012 at 1:03 pm
eawerner
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When I first was looking at this site I remember wondering why all the subjects had to be separate. Can’t they just tell you exactly what you need for every subject in a particular grade? Now I am very happy it is set up this way because it truly is a curriculum ‘guide’, not a curriculum. It shows you all the subjects you could teach and gives great suggestions for books to use in a variety of grades. Since most of the subjects can be done with a range of ages, it doens’t make much sense to assign particular books to each grade level. You get to pick and choose what you and your kids will like.
I would look into getting the ‘Planning your Charlotte Mason Education’ book. It will help you go through your goals for homeschooling, what subjects you want to teach over all and for this particular year. Then you start plugging in what books you want for each subject and that is where the curriculum guide and bookfinder come in handy. Originally I printed off every page of the guide and made notes on them. That works fine too.
September 25, 2012 at 1:18 pm
Faith R Miller
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Welcome! I second the “Planning Your Charlotte Mason Education” book. I was sort of all over the place before utilizing this great tool. Really helped me to focus on the direction I wanted to go.
September 25, 2012 at 2:04 pm
Sue
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I agree with those suggesting Planning Your CM Education. I believe I downloaded it and printed it off to put in a binder. I just took it with me and worked on it while I was waiting for my dad to get out of surgery (a year or so ago).
I have used the curriculum guide, and I love that you can just look through the lists of books and pick from various levels of abililty. (They are listed as grade levels in the guide.) The books listed are linked to the bookfinder, which is helpful in deciding which books to use. The listings show you how many chapters, suggested grade levels, and how many pages in the book.
Also, don’t get confused when looking at the Science listings. There is one column that suggests textbooks and one that lists living books. You can just use one or the other (or selections from both), but you don’t have to use both together. Of course, science for first grade is often mostly nature study….unless you seem to have a budding scientist on your hands!
September 25, 2012 at 5:11 pm
curlywhirly
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I would encourage you to spend the time to click through each section and browse the books, look them up somewhere online or at the library, and immerse yourself in the process. The essence of CM education cannot be captured in the way a boxed curriculum is put together. 😉