Wayfarers + ELTL: STILL My Picks for our Charlotte Mason-Inspired Homeschool

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Last week my nine-year-old asked when we’d be starting school again.

“Why, are you ready now?” I asked, half-jokingly.

“Yes.” she replied, dead serious.

My first thought was: “but I haven’t even done my 2017/2018 curriculum pick post yet!”, followed immediately by: “the house is way too messy to do lessons in!” But how do you say no to a child that’s ready to learn? I knew I had to get my butt in gear, so I picked the easier of the two tasks.

Welcome to my 2017/2018 Curriculum Pick post.

Now you might be nervous because you remember that last year’s post was an insane seven pages long. This post is actually more pages — but it’s purely for ease of navigation. I promise you that I used far fewer words this year. Just the good ones.

A quick introduction: River is almost 10 and she is going into Grade 5. Harbour is 6.5 and she is starting Grade 1. Forest will be 3 soon, and mostly I’m just trying to keep him from painting the walls while I’m teaching the other two. For the purposes of this post, I’ll just call that “preschool”.

The vast majority of our curriculum is from Barefoot Ragamuffin: English Lessons Through Literature, Reading Lessons Through Literature, Handwriting Lessons Through Literature, Pathways, and Wayfarers: Ancient History. You could say I’m a fan. You can read up on why I love ELTL in my post Adding Poetry to Our Day, and you can read a more detailed introduction to Wayfarers in my Curriculum Picks of 2016/2017 post.

Jump Ahead: Our Curriculum Pick for 2017/2018

Introduction
Math: Beast Academy and RightStart
Language Arts: Barefoot Ragamuffin and Brave Writer curriculums
History: Wayfarers: Ancient History
Geography: Wayfarers: Ancient History
Science: Science in the Ancient World
Bible: Episcopal Children’s Curriculum
Foreign Languages: Speaking French with Miss Mason and François and Latin for Children
Miscellaneous: Wayfarers: Ancient History

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3 responses to “Wayfarers + ELTL: STILL My Picks for our Charlotte Mason-Inspired Homeschool”

  1. Gina @ Oaxacaborn Avatar
    Gina @ Oaxacaborn

    Thanks for sharing the children’s Bible curriculum! I’m intrigued by it, and am looking through it now. Love how the BCP is incorporated!

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  2. Astrid Avatar
    Astrid

    Can you share a little more about how you use ECC for your kids? I only have two daughters, a first grader and a third grader, and I pick choose CM resources for our homeschool (history and geography from AO, lit from Mater Amabilis, natural history/science from Sabbath Mood) but haven’t been satisfied with Bible. A lot of stuff out there is too Protestant or too Roman Catholic. Do you just split the storytelling and activities up each day? I like the look of it, especially how it incorporates the BCP, but it seems complicated.

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  3. Louise O'Neil Avatar
    Louise O’Neil

    I just discovered Barefoot Meanderings, thanks in part to your posts 🙂 and I am re-doing my entire plan for next year, lol! We will be starting with Ancient History with a 5-year-old daughter doing Pathways and as much of Grammar stage as she can focus on, an 11-year-old doing Grammar stage with dyslexia/learning disabiliteis, and a 12-year-old bumping up into Dialectic, yay! (also dyslexia so it will be a challenge and lots of audiobooks). It looks amazing!!! Can’t wait to start!

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