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Here are three very different articles addressing this subject:
Old-Fashioned Play Builds Serious Skills
Taking Play Seriously
A game called suicide

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Sample Term Schedules

February 10, 2015

I use AmblesideOnline in our homeschool, and I appreciate the chart-format schedules that are provided for each year . Before I use those schedules, though, I modify them to make them work for our family . Here are some samples of a shortened version of my edited schedules for a few different years to give you an idea of what these look like. (The samples show only a few weeks of each term so as not to violate AmblesideOnline's license by reproducing the schedules on another site.) Two terms of Year 1 Year 2 chart One term of Year 3 Another Year 3 chart Year 4 chart Another Year 4 chart, just Term 1 Two terms of Year 5 Another Year 5 chart Year 6 chart Another Year 6 chart Year 7 chart Year 8 chart Year 9 chart Another Year 9 Chart Yet Another Year 9 Chart One More Year 9 Chart Year 10 chart Year 11 chart Briefly, I follow this basic process to prepare the schedules for the term ahead: I download the art prints from the link at t...

Charlotte Mason Kindergarten

February 11, 2009

If you are planning to do a kindergarten year with a five-year-old, I hope you’ll study up first on CM’s recommendations so you can plan a wonderful K year that meets your goals in a CM-friendly way. I don’t say this because I think there’s some rule that says we all must follow CM’s recommendations but because I have always found her recommendations to be wise and useful, and I am sure that these (related to the years before formal school begins at age 6 or later) are also wise and useful and so are worth keeping in mind. If you want to study up, I’d recommend starting with these two links: A Formidable List of Attainments for a Child of Six–For Five-Year-Olds or Six-Year-Olds? This is my attempt to catalogue what CM says in Volume 1 about children under six. The first part focuses on the List of Attainments, but read all the way through. One important part: "Charlotte Mason did not intend for children under the age of six to be free to pl...

Organizing our AO Year (Scheduling Overview)

I've blogged about different aspects of this process at different times. Here are the key posts, all in one spot! (Updated in January 2020) Sample Term Schedules - See a sample (for each AO year I've scheduled so far) of the schedules I create for my own family. How I Scheduled Year 3 - Walk through the process of planning Year 3. How I Scheduled Year 4 - Walk through the process of planning Year 4. How I Scheduled Year 5 - Walk through the process of planning Year 5. How I Scheduled Year 5 (Another Version) - Walk through the process of planning Year 5. How I Scheduled Year 6 - Walk through the process of planning Year 6. How I Scheduled Year 7 - Walk through the process of planning Year 7 for an 8th grader. How I Scheduled Year 10 - Walk through the process of planning Year 10. A Natural Reward - Guest post at Afterthoughts. Planning Our Ambleside Year - What resources to pull together at the start of the year. Chart Format Example - See a s...

A Formidable List of Attainments for a Child of Six–For Five-Year-Olds or Six-Year-Olds?

September 21, 2008

[This post at the moment is something of a rough draft. I welcome your comments as I revise it.] "A Formidable List of Attainments for a Child of Six" is described as a reprint of a curriculum outline from a CM school in the 1890′s; it was printed in the Summer 1993 Parents Review published by Karen Andreola. Here is the list : "To recite, beautifully, six easy poems and hymns. To recite, perfectly and beautifully, a parable and a psalm. To add and subtract numbers up to ten, with dominoes or counters. To read-what, and how much, will depend on what we are told of the child; children vary much in their power of reading. To copy in print-hand from a book. To know the points of the compass with relation to their own home, where the sun rises and sets, and the way the wind blows. To describe the boundaries of their own home. To describe any lake, river, pond, island within easy reach. To tell quite accurately (however shortly) Three stories from ...

How I Scheduled Year 7

I am creating my version of AO's chart schedule for the first term of Year 7. Bear in mind that of course what works for me may not be what works for you, ditto for my child and your child, and that my process varies somewhat from term to term and year to year. I school four days a week because one day a week is spent at the park and at band, so that may be different from how you schedule too. *** My section labels in these schedules are fairly arbitrary. I don't really care if the label matches the section's contents. I downloaded the chart schedule in the .doc format from the AmblesideOnline Year 7 Detailed schedule page . (The Basic schedule page probably looks much different. Starting in Year 7, the Basic schedule includes fewer assignments spread over a longer period of time and sometimes even schedules different resources than the Detailed schedule.) I prefer to manage my charts from Google docs right now, even though they do...

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