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

Aug 27, 2017

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Curriculum Pick: Miscellaneous

Grade 5

You know what Wayfarers is really good for? Throwing in all the things that I would forget to teach on my own. Like health, as an example. We’re following the Wayfarers book list for health, choosing the Paleo stream over the traditional stream. Given that River is gluten-free, it only makes sense — and I love that Paleo is an option.

I’m also terrible at doing Composer study, as recommended by Charlotte Mason. My Wayfarers book gives me three composers to pick one. Okay, I officially pick Vivaldi — all I need now is a Spotify playlist. (Done.)

Wayfarers schedules art twice a week, but it recommends the Barry Stebbing books (How Great Thou Art, Little Lamb, etc), and neither River nor I were that taken with them. Honestly, my plan is to do more nature drawing and then look up videos and books that will help our technique. River does plenty of drawing on her own anyway.

The read-alouds (aka audiobooks) scheduled for this year are from the Chronicles of Narnia. Sweet. We’ve already done the first two so I’ll skip ahead to the third book. I’m planning to reserve the read-alouds for the weekend so that we have one chapter to listen to each night of the week: three from our English Lessons Through Literature lesson, two chapters from our geography novel, and two from our literature list. I am going to get some serious knitting done this year while I sit on the couch and listen with River.

Grade 1

Wayfarers has all the same subjects scheduled in for Harbour’s age group, but I’m not even going to attempt it. My two main goals for Harbour are reading (if she’s ready) and building her attention span. Anything beyond that is just for fun.

If you’re interested in Wayfarers, be sure to head over and download a FREE SAMPLE! The samples are amazing — they include the entire introduction and three full weeks of daily lesson plans. You can also talk to other people using the curriculum in the Facebook group: join the Facebook group at Barefoot Ragamuffin Homeschoolers/

If you have any questions about this curriculum or about the subjects I didn’t mention, feel free to leave me a comment here or on Facebook. And feel free to link to your own Curriculum Picks post in the comments too – I love seeing what other homeschoolers are up to!

Go Back: 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”

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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