It can be challenging for a CM Teacher to not only choose, but also to keep track of which Recitation pieces her students learn. We have created a Teacher Help to remove many of the obstacles to this delightful, but preparation-heavy subject. This Recitation Planner is an editable PDF document that can be filled in with each family/student/class’ Recitation pieces each term/year/school career. Additionally, we have included the information from our other resources to make selecting Old Testament, New Testament, and Psalm passages simpler from this single tool. Nicole has written a concise guide for teaching Recitation, how it differs from memorization, and some helpful tips for working with your students.
Besides the Planner itself, we have included all of the Psalms that CM assigned for Forms 1 through 4. These pieces have been fully formatted in a pleasing style to eliminate some of the work needed each term. These Psalms are separate files from the Planner and can be downloaded as either ESV or KJV versions. We do have intentions to add further “Recitation Packets” for Forms 1 through 4 for other parts of the subject (Scripture, Hymns, Poetry, etc.), and these will be separate purchases that each family can make according to their needs/ages of students.
Recitation Planner is a 24 page PDF, formatted Psalms are each 32 pages.
**Update: 7/25/23: We have just released formatted Bible passages for Forms 1-4. You may purchase as many add-ons as you’d like. Each Form level has a respective Old Testament and New Testament pack, which each contain 2 options per term’s Bible assignments to choose from. These passages are formatted to be easy to read and pleasant to behold with coordinating graphics like the Psalms included with the Recitation Planner. Each add-on comes with the ESV and KJV editions, and will save you much time both choosing and preparing recitation passages each term. The selections are taken from Charlotte Mason’s recommendations for each term and Form level.
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Would you like a single place to record your plan for which artist, composer, and poets to assign each term? Do you ever forget which child has studied which person already? Do you want a handy place to keep track of your ideas of which artist or composer or poet you’d like to study and which time period they fall into?
This Fine Arts Planner may be just the tool you’ve been looking for! This 16 page editable PDF includes some suggestions of artists, composers, and poets for each year of the ADE History Rotation; planning pages to lay out your overall plan for fine arts and how it coordinates with your history time period; blank planning pages that can be formatted for a single student’s entire school career showing who they have studied each term; and, blank tables to record your ideas of which artist, composer, and poet you would like to study in the future with fields to include their time period.
This tool will not only allow you to plan out your Fine Arts rotations, but will give you a quick, at-a-glance record of when you studied which person and which child participated–taking the guesswork out of choosing who to cover each year. The tables are completely editable to customize to meet your needs.
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Would you like a single place to record your plan for which Shakespeare plays to assign each term, that also shows which child has studied each particular play? Did you know that Charlotte Mason coordinated many of the Shakespeare plays assigned to the historical time period the children were studying? Would you like a handy reference for which plays Charlotte Mason assigned in each Form?
This Shakespeare Planner and Tracker may be just the tool you’ve been looking for! This 10 page editable PDF includes the rotation of plays CM assigned in each Form; suggested rotations for 21st century students following ADE’s history streams; a blank tracker with the alphabetical listing of all the plays CM assigned in the PUS, with space to add additional plays your family may choose, that allows you to record which students have studied which plays; and, a term by term blank planner you can edit to plan out up to 30 years worth of Shakespeare plays coordinating with your historical time periods, with space to note which child(ren) will read each play.
This tool will not only allow you to plan out your Shakespeare rotations, but will give you a quick, at-a-glance record of when you studied which play and who read it–taking the guesswork out of choosing plays each year.
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