Piney Woods Homeschool

 This is from Wordsworth's "Prelude", quoted in Charlotte Mason's Volume 3, Chapter 19 : <<     "That common sense           May try this common system by its fruits,           Leave let me take to place before her sight           A specimen pourtrayed with faithful band.           Full early trained to worship seemliness,           This model of a child is never known           To mix in quarrels; that were far beneath           Its dignity; with gifts he bubbles o'er           As generous as a fountain; selfishness       ...

Sometimes Ambleside Online seems daunting to implement, and usually it's the scheduling that seems difficult.  However, the scheduling is really already done for you--it's just a matter of finding a method of recording the schedule and your progress through it. I use the chart-format schedules (new, up-to-date copies soon to be available on the AmblesideOnline website ).  I then edit them to add things that I want to be sure we do daily or weekly that aren't already listed.  I take out what I don't want to do.  For things that need to happen more than once a week, like copywork, I put little checkboxes in the weekly chart box.  Then each day, we look at the column for the week. We start with the things at the bottom of the column, the work that needs to be done daily or multiple times a week, and we do those in whatever order we choose, marking them off as we go.  I look at the readings for the week and figure out how many readings we'll need to do ea...