My Favorite Resources for Charlotte Mason Homeschooling: History
Last month, I introduced a series of blog posts that I plan to go through over the next few months, sharing some of my favorite Charlotte Mason homeschool resources broken down by subject. These are the ones we’ve tried and have been so helpful in making our days run more smoothly. They have also engaged my kids in whatever subject we’re covering. In some cases, they’re resources that have been made by other homeschooling moms or are from reputable homeschooling companies, and sometimes they’re just different items that have been helpful to us in a specific subject.
These are by no means the only resources out there, and I will offer others in some subjects that I have heard of but haven’t had the chance to try yet, or I have friends who have used them and appreciate them. But the main list will be the resources we’ve used in our homeschool over the last (almost) six years that have been so helpful to us.
Today I’m sharing resources for History!
History
Much that has been said about the teaching of geography applies equally to that of history. Here, too, is a subject which should be to the child an inexhaustible storehouse of ideas, should enrich the chambers of his House Beautiful with a thousand tableaux, pathetic and heroic, and should form in him, insensibly, principles whereby he will hereafter judge of the behaviour of nations, and will rule his own conduct as one of a nation. (Home Education)
Charlotte Mason (Home Education)
Resources
AmblesideOnline History FAQ
Book of Centuries
The Living Page by Laurie Bestvater
Parents’ Review: The Book of Centuries
Stories of Color
Heritage Mom
The Parallel Narrative
We use AmblesideOnline for our history spine texts (I have only replaced a few of the books), and then I also like to supplement with other books to add more diversity. The other websites listed above offer many lists of living books that provide different perspectives of a given timeframe in history. Stories of Color is particularly helpful as you can search by Form and time period. For my Form 2 student, I have assigned some of these as readings he does on his own and then narrates to me. The rest of the books have been available in a basket that I keep in our homeschool area for the kids to read at their leisure, which usually means as soon as I put them out at the beginning of each term.
We also put entries into our Books of Centuries (me too :)) once per week, usually written ones the first three weeks of the month and then a drawing on the last week. This allows us to see how events and lives happening in different areas of the world overlap, which has been very interesting!
Other posts in the series:
My husband has podcast dedicated to Plutarch, and making his Lives accessible to homeschoolers and anyone else! (as well as tons of free resources on his blog: https://grammaticus.co/) The podcast can be found here (or on any podcast app): https://grammaticus.co/podcast/
Just thought I’d share, as many moms have found it really helpful for their prep going into Plutarch. 🙂
I’m on the website now… what an INCREDIBLE resource! Thank you!
We’ve been enjoying Rooted Willow Homeschool on YouTube for Plutarch readings. He’s a professor/AO/CM homeschool dad that reads the lives then discusses at the end. 🙂