2024-2025 Homeschool Plan & Schedule || How I Plan Step by Step || Charlotte Mason
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- čas přidán 5. 07. 2024
- In this video, I talk about how I plan out our entire homeschool year and fit in all the subjects and extras into our week without overwhelming everyone! If you need some encouragement or are new to homeschooling and you’re not sure where to start, this video is for you!
If you can’t stick around for the whole video, here are times stamps for each topic I discuss:
0:00 Intro
2:29 Compiling Your Entire Book List
5:06 Plugging Each Book & Subject into the Year's Schedule (by Term)
8:00 Creating Your Weekly Timetable
12:11 Our Weekly Timetable (How I Fit It All In!)
21:37 A Beginner Schedule (Easing into Charlotte Mason)
23:27 A Full Schedule Charlotte Mason Students
24:03 Grade One Subjects (How Often & How Long)
32:09 Grade Five Subjects (How Often & How Long)
I’ve included specific scheduling times for grade 1 & 5 subjects. This can help give you a rough idea of how to plan out your own students’ schedules, but you can find the same specific timelines for every grade at Ambleside Online’s website:
amblesideonline.org/schedulin...
The Alveary:
www.alveary.org/
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I'm finding this all so helpful. Thank you for sharing!
I’m so glad! It can be very overwhelming at first, until you can visualize how everything can fit it nicely! 😊
This is so helpful. Thank you for making this video!
I’m so glad!
Thank you so much for this. I know you may do a video later on about specific things, but didn't know if you could share what Alveary does for Sewing. Will I need a sewing machine? Also, for science lab, what are some of the things this includes?
Sewing, at least in the early/elementary years is all sewing by hand. So no sewing machine required!
Science labs are all very different from year to year, and they are all very topic specific. For example this term we are studying how the Wright Brothers invented the airplane. The science lab for this book focuses on things like the mechanics of simple machines, how an aerofoil overcomes weight with lift, and other forces that act on the wing of an airplane and how you overcome them. They build gliders and planes and journal and diagram about their findings. The Alveary creates the Science Lab guides, so all the work is done for us!
I will make a video on science with the Alveary in the near future!
Thanks for watching!
Hi, here I am again, thank you so much for all your help! If I understood right, the Alveary doesn't provide the schedules then? You need to out it together on your own? I was looking at the Gentle Feast and they have a weekly plan with all the forms side by side (in case you have kids in different forms). I'm finding it hard to understand the Alveary without really seeing it working. I saw they have samples on their website, but it's very fragmented, it's hard to understand how it all goes together.
The Alveary does provide all the schedules. They provide you with a beginner schedule that is modified to ease in new families to Charlotte Mason’s methods, and a complete full schedule. Of course they can’t anticipate what our weeks look like, if for example, you have swimming lessons on Monday, you will have to modify or create a schedule that works for you.
They also have weekly schedules for each subject with a complete lesson plan for each day. Everything is planned out (unlike in Ambleside Online or the CMEC, which guide you to plan everything out yourself).
The only thing is, you don’t have access to any of this until you pay the membership fee. I had a friend who was able to explain everything to me before I bought the membership, but yes, the website is quite vague!
I hope that helps!
This video was incredibly helpful, thank you so much for taking the time to make it! I have a question regarding your schedule, in what ways would an advanced form 1, (3rd Grade) schedule change from your Grade 1 schedule layout? Are the subjects the same with just slightly longer times, or are there more subjects to cover?
The differences between Grade 1 and 3 are subtle but there are some differences. The lengths of time are slightly longer for some subjects, but only extended by another 5 mins. In grade 1, Bible is a story book Bible, but for grade 3 they read the actual Bible. Geography and History are also more in-depth, where they will begin to do mapwork and study the history of your country. The literature picks for grade 3 are also more challenging reads. Math, of course, would advance by grade, but everything else is about the same. Hope that helps!
Wondering which edition of Hurlbuts Story Book Bible? I’ve been looking at it but some editions seem to have typos.
I haven’t ordered it, but I just checked the Alveary’s website and they are recommending one that was published in 2007. It doesn’t list an edition. The ISBN is 978-59915-178-6
But the Alveary also offered a free pdf of the book for members. That one was published in 2009 by Heritage History. I plan to use this one and I’ll have it printed and bound. I believe this may have typos as well, but it shouldn’t detract too much from the story.
Thank you so much!@@littlebitsofbliss
Another question, what time do you take care of the house, cook, etc? It feels like you would have to be very immersed in all of that for most of the day? Do you think it's possible for a bigger family to do this? Families with toddlers, infants nursing, etc? It's a lot of interruptions.
No matter what kind of curriculum you buy, being a homeschool mom is like having 2 full times jobs: teacher and homemaker. You eventually find your own rhythm! Many moms teach their kids independence at a young age to help when they can. My friend’s kids make their own breakfast and lunch.
In our home, I make breakfast for everyone before school. We take an hour lunch break and I make lunch - sometimes cooked or sometimes sandwiches. We finish homeschool around 1-2 each day and I tidy up the homeschool stuff and start making dinner around 4 every day. We eat dinner at 6pm. I do a bit of house cleaning/chores everyday so that things don’t pile up!
Where exactly is it that I need to look to get time length and frequency for subjects for other grades?
You can try the Alveary’s website, but I’m not sure if you will have access to that information without a membership. Another place that will have similar lengths of time and frequency for subjects will be Ambleside Online, which is entirely free. It may be slightly different from the Alveary’s scheduling but should be similar as they both follow Charlotte Mason’s timelines and scheduling. I hope that helps!
If you don’t mind me asking, what grades are you looking for?
The alveary free booklist are those e-books?
They are mostly printable books in pdf format or links to free books available on websites, like Anna Comstock’s Handbook of Nature Study. No hard copy of books. Possibly some e-books, but I haven’t seen any myself.
Is this schedule from The Alveary website or is this in a specific one of Charlotte Mason’s books?
This is from the Alveary’s website (although I’ve modified it to suit our needs), but it is also closely in line with Charlotte Mason’s books. 😊
Thank you! 😊
What math is recommended? Thanks
I will be using Beauty and Truth Math, but the Alveary recommends Right Start Math. You can use any math curriculum you prefer though!
It puzzles me why Charlotte Mason would want to introduce church history to such a young student. Whenever I see Form 1b or 1st grade booklists, I never feel comfortable with that subject this early. Do you have any thoughts on this?
I know you were asking Natasha, but for us Church history was very natural to start with for my daughter because that was more familiar and understandable than our own country. When we started 1st grade we had already been reading the Bible together for several years and she's heard the stories of Jesus a lot, so for her she was really interested in Rome and what happened after Jesus ascended. We only started American history this year in 2nd grade and that's been interesting to her now that she hears/notices more about our country, like: whose face is on the coin? Why do my cousins live in a different state? Is that a different country? What is an election? We've been using Story of Jesus' People from Generations (without the workbook) which is age appropriate and focuses a lot on the spread of the gospel through different parts of the world and not so much on some of the gruesome details or complicated politics.
Is it possible when you hear the phrase “Church History” that you are thinking of the history of the church, the good and the bad, like the crusades? Church history, particularly in the beginning, is more about different figures throughout the history of Christianity, like missionaries who helped to spread the gospel. Though learning the entire history, both good and bad, is important, it’s not the focus in the younger years.
Learning about historical Christian figures is important because it helps our children see “faith in action” and what it looks like to be a follower of Jesus. Of course, you can always leave church history out if you still don’t want to include it. Many families who aren’t religious still follow Mason’s methods. 😊
What type of paper do you use for sloyd?
Where's your science....co-op?
The science has been incorporated in our schedule, labelled as general science and natural history. We will be reading the living books at home and completing the rest at our co-op, such as discussion and science labs.
@@littlebitsofbliss oh I see it now. Sorry.