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

Aug 27, 2017

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Curriculum Pick: Bible

Grade 5

Wayfarers suggests a daily Bible reading, regular stories from a children’s story Bible, and the devotional Long Story Short. Meh. We tried LSS in a previous year and I didn’t love it.

I’m thinking of using the Episcopal Children’s Curriculum, which is available for free online. I’ve browsed through the different weeks and I’m impressed by the lessons, the activities, and especially the newspaper that features interviews with Bible characters. It’s a Sunday School curriculum so it’s meant to be taught all at once, but there are multiple activities to choose from, which lets me stretch the lessons out for at least a few days.

Grade 1

I’m not sure if I’ll use the Primary lessons from the same Episcopoal Children’s Curriculum for Harbour, or if I’ll just stick to reading Bible stories for now. I could even use the Pre-School/Primary Lessons and include Forest, but I like how the Primary and Intermediate lessons use the same Bible stories. I’m still undecided.

Pre-School

I figure if I can read Forest some Bible stories and teach him the rest of the words to My Lighthouse by Rend Collective, I’m good. Seriously, he’s the cutest little hipster-Christian ever. He just needs his own banjo and some facial hair.

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

Comments

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

Gina @ Oaxacaborn

September 4, 2017

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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Astrid

January 6, 2018

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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Louise O’Neil

May 16, 2018

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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