The Simply Charlotte Mason curriculum offers open-and-go plans. We've already done the hard
work for you, so you can focus on teaching your children with Charlotte Mason's wonderful methods.
Each lesson plan book gives you a list of books and resources that you will need,
plus a weekly schedule and daily plans that tell you how to use those books and resources.
It outlines which books to use on which days and how much to read
or which picture to look at or when to do nature study. You don't have to try
to put a schedule together or figure out the best books to use; it's all in here.
The lesson plans are available in three different lines, so you can use as much or as little as you
like. Think of them as building blocks You can use the history lesson plans
that cover history, geography, and Bible. Each history plan book outlines a full year
of what you will need and how to teach all of your students together—first through twelfth grades—for
those three subjects. You can combine them because history, geography, and Bible are all topic-based
subjects. It doesn't matter in which grade you study the Renaissance or Africa or the life of
Christ, because those are simply topics. So we list resources for all the grades and you can save
time and money by keeping all of your students on the same history, geography, and Bible topics for
the year. Choose from any of the six time periods available. You can start at the beginning with
Ancient Egypt and Genesis, start with American history, or pick up anywhere that your students
may have left off with previous history studies. It's up to you. If you're looking for a full
year of history, geography, and Bible studies, grab one of the books from this line of plans.
The second line of lesson plan books covers what we call enrichment studies. That's the art and
music and nature study and Scripture memory and singing and handcrafts and Shakespeare
and family read-alouds—all of those beautiful subjects and enrich the heart and mind.
This line of plans will give you a list of the books and resources you will need,
along with a weekly schedule and daily plans for using them.
The enrichment studies are also topic-based subjects and are designed for teaching all of your
students together, first through twelfth grade. Then the third line of lesson plan books add in
language arts, math, and science. We call them individual studies, because language arts and math
are skill-based subjects and need to be taught at each child's pace, one-on-one. So these studies
are grade specific. Again, these plans give you the list of resources you will need,
a weekly schedule, and the daily plans for using those resources.
So here's how it works. If you just want to teach history, geography,
and Bible to your whole family, grab a guide from that line. If you want to add in all the fun
enrichment subjects for the whole family too, grab one history study and one enrichment study book.
If you want to do the skill-based subjects of language arts and math
and science, grab an individual study guide at each child's grade level.
You can mix and match to create the best line up for your home school: use one, two, or all three.
With the Simply Charlotte Mason curriculum lesson plan books, the scheduling and book selection
is already done, so you can simply give your family an enjoyable Charlotte Mason education.