Daily lessons that will help you spread a feast of art, music, literature, poetry, and more—wonderful studies that will enrich life for your whole family!
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The 1st edition is now out of print. A new 2nd edition is coming in Spring 2024. More details→
We are excited to bring you a 2nd edition of our Enrichment Studies lesson plans in Spring 2024. The new 2nd edition will feature revised literature lessons with improved lesson timing to keep lessons short but complete, new introductions to help parents set the stage for each book, and deep high school lessons using the Great Book Discussions series. The 2nd edition will also include additional guidance in good habits, foreign language, and Scripture memory lessons.
Spread a wide feast of wonderful studies that enrich life!
Give all your students (grades 1–12) the variety of attractive subjects that makes a Charlotte Mason education so enjoyable! These enrichment subjects go beyond the “three Rs” to add life to your home school. The simple lesson plans in this volume detail a complete book list and daily lessons to help you provide an ample feast of enriching subjects in just one hour a day.
Also available in a bundle
Save some time with our convenient bundle which includes most of the materials needed for these lessons in one place!
enjoy the beautiful artwork of Millet, Michelangelo, and Turner;
get to know Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and his poetry;
listen to the compositions of Haydn, Mendelssohn, and Schubert;
ponder the classic and imaginative Shakespeare play, As You Like It;
be spiritually enriched by 30 Scripture memory passages and 6 timeless hymns;
learn the handicraft of knitting, and the art of sculpting and painting with watercolors;
read wonderful literature books the whole family will love;
practice speaking a foreign language;
and form good habits that will prepare your children for life.
Resource List
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High School Credit
For the completion of assignments in this Enrichment Studies, Volume 2, using the Older Group of literature books, we suggest that students should be awarded 1/4 credit for Fine Arts and 1⁄2 credit for Literature. (If you continue similar Enrichment studies through all four years of high school, the student will earn 1 full credit of Fine Arts and 2 of Literature.)
Sample Schedule
The lesson plans in Enrichment Studies, Volume 2, are very doable, taking only about 1 hour a day. Your weekly schedule would look something like this:
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday
Scripture Memory (10 min.)
Habits (10 min.)
Picture Study (10 min.)
Family Read-Aloud (20 min.)
Scripture Memory (10 min.)
Hymn Study (5 min.)
Poetry (5 min.)
Foreign Language (15 min.)
Family Read-Aloud (20 min.)
Scripture Memory (10 min.)
Habits (10 min.)
Music Study (10 min.)
Family Read-Aloud (20 min.)
Scripture Memory (10 min.)
Hymn Study (5 min.)
Foreign Languages (15 min.)
Handicrafts (20 min.)
Family Read-Aloud (20 min.)
Scripture Memory (10 min.)
Nature Study (15+min.)
Repetition: Poem (5 min.)
Family Read-Aloud (20 min.)
The Enrichment Studies series
Our Enrichment Studies curriculum makes it simple for you give your students the wide variety of enjoyable subjects that Charlotte Mason recommended. The volumes can be completed in any order and can be paired with any of our other lesson plans.
*Three options are given for Family Read-Aloud books: a group of books for younger students, a group for middle students, and a group for older students. Select one of the groups to read aloud to your family—the one that best reflects the age range of most of your students. The Young Group is geared toward approximately grades 1–4, Middle Group for grades 5–8, and Older Group for grades 9–12. If you have a wide range of student ages to accommodate, you may want to select one group of books to read aloud and assign another group to older students to read independently.
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