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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This Teacher Help has been a looooooong time in the making! After reading Charlotte Mason’s criteria for a handwriting program, and then gleefully finding the plates online for A New Handwriting that she described in Home Education, we embarked on teaching this handwriting style to our young students. For many teachers, however, it is very difficult to translate the 10 lettered plates into actual lessons, let alone figure out how best to form the letters. We are so pleased to be able to offer a comprehensive guide to teaching A New Handwriting with simple instructions, colored plates that show how to form each stroke and letter, along with suggested pacing for how much to cover in a term.
The material in this guide can take two school years to complete…or more, depending on the pace with which your student masters the forms. The guide is 117 pages long. Please see samples below:
This Exam Planner will help prepare and equip you to create your own term by term examinations using Charlotte Mason’s principles and practices. All six Form levels are included in this Planner.
The value of living books and the education of children is incalculable. Once convinced about why children must read, however, further questions arise regarding how they should be taught to read, when and where to begin with books, how to continue to encourage them in the habit of reading, and above all, what literature they should read. Teaching children how to read is daunting to most mothers and keeping children connected with reading is an even bigger challenge, especially in an era where reading books is a disappearing art. This document contains the most common and frequently asked questions about reading and children’s literature with answers drawn from the wisdom of Charlotte Mason, other educators and the experience from 30 years of homeschooling and 12 years work at Living Books Library.
