Some Charlotte Mason-Friendly Sites:
Ambleside On-lineArt Gallery--WorldwideCharlotte Mason’s books online (free)Charlotte Mason Discussion Group Charlotte Mason International InstituteCharlotte Mason MethodCharlotte Mason Research & SupplyCharlotte Mason StudiesCM Catholic CurriculumC-Mason Web SiteCrooked Pines PublishingFresno FamilyGentle Hearth
Gift of Family WritingHome Education Tutor (mag)Homeschool Central HomeSchoolDads.comLakeway LearningLapbooksLiving Books Curriculum Living Book ReviewsLiving Literature with Lap BooksNature DetectivesNotebookingParker Family GardenQueen Homeschool Supply
Race for HeavenRainbow Resource Center, Inc Secular CM discussion groupSkylark Simply Charlotte Mason Special Needs Children using CMTammy Glaser’s CM PageTanglewood EducationThe Homeschool Mom The Thinking MotherTime for TeaTracking Leaves What Tree Is It?
More CM ReadingCharlotte Mason’s series Charlotte Mason Study Guide A Charlotte Mason Education More Charlotte Mason EducationCharlotte Mason Companion NEW: When Children Love to Learn For the Children’s Sake For the Family’s Sake Literature Alive!Our Home Wild Days: Creating Discovery Journals
Home Education Titles and Curriculum Choices: Educating the Wholehearted ChildHomeschooling HandbookEasy Homeschooling Techniques The Three R’s Playful Learning: Alternate to PreschoolYou Can Teach Your Child Successfully Homeschooling the Teen Years At Last! Reading Method for Every ChildTeach Your Child to Read 100 Lessons Reading ReflexSpelling PowerThe ABC’s and All Their Tricks Italics, Beautiful Handwriting for ChildrenGames for WritingFrom Reader to Writer: Teaching Writing through Classic Children’s BooksAny Child Can Write Mentor Texts: Teaching Writing Through Children’s LiteratureBuilding a Writing CommunityBird by Bird: Instructions on Writing/LifeNitty Gritty GrammarSimply GrammarFree Grammar websiteEnglish for the Thoughtful Child Recipes for WritingEnglish from the Roots Up Words on the Vine (vocab/root words) Games for Math Family Math for Young ChildrenFamily MathMath-Terpieces: The Art of Problem-Solving (uses famous art)Mastering Essential Math Skills (3-4) Mastering Essential Math Skills (5-8)Problem Solving in Mathematics Hands-On Algebra Fibonacci FunString, Straightedge, & Shadow Mathematics: A Human Endeavor VideoText AlgebraElementary AlgebraGeometry: Seeing, Doing, Understand How Science WorksPhysics: The Easy WayThinking PhysicsMad About Physics: Braintwisters, Paradoxes, and CuriositiesBasic Machines and How They Work Instant Physics: From Aristotle to Einstein Creepy Crawlies: Scientific Method Wild Days: Creating Discovery JournalsMy Book of the Centuries (History) How to Read a Book The Harp and Laurel Wreath A Thomas Jefferson EducationThe Educated ChildWhat Your 1st Grader Needs to Know What Your 2nd Grader Needs to KnowWhat Your 3rd Grader Needs to Know What Your 4th Grader Needs to KnowWhat Your 5th Grader Needs to Know What Your 6th Grader Needs to KnowHomeschoolers College Admissions tDebt-Proof Your Kids The Power of Full Engagement (not about homeschool but may be helpful for personal development; apply to working with children) Square Foot Gardening Fine Arts: Poems to Read to the Very YoungA Child’s Garden of Verses A Brighter Garden: Poetry Favorite Poems, Old and NewThe Book of 1,000 Poems And It Was So: Words from the ScriptureA Time to Keep: Tasha Tudor Holidays Beowulf (Heaney) Bard of Avon: Story of W. Shakespeare Under the Greenwood Tree: Shakespeare Tales from Shakespeare Beautiful Stories from ShakespeareGrass Sandals: Basho
A Boy Named Giotto The Genius of Leonardo Leonardo da Vinci for Kids Michelangelo Getting to Know the World’s Greatest Artists seriesBoy Who Loved to Draw: Benj. West Hokusai: The Man Who Painted a Mountain Linnea in Monet’s GardenMarie in Fourth Position: Degas Degas and the Little Dancer Picasso and the Girl with a PonytailCezanne from A to ZCamille and the Sunflowers: Van Gogh First Starry Night: Van Gogh A Weekend with Winslow HomerMy Name is GeorgiaSister Wendy’s Story of Painting Drawing on the Right Side of the BrainDiscovering Great Artists Drawing with Children
Nine-Note Recorder BooksQuick Notes (music reading cards)Random House Book of Opera Stories Barefoot Book of Stories from the OperaSpiritual Lives of the Great Composers Raising Musical KidsThe Mozart EffectBernstein: Children’s Classics Classics for Kids Bach for Breakfast Baroque at Bathtime Brahms at BedtimeBeethoven at BedtimeMozart in the MorningMozart at MidnightChopin and ChampagneTchaikovsky at Tea Time Vivaldi for Valentines Bach’s Big Adventure Beethoven Lives Upstairs/Vivaldi’s Ring of Mystery/Hallalujah HandelMozart’s Magic Fantasy/Tchaikovsky Discovers America/Bach Comes to CallTwo Scarlet Songbirds: Anton Dvorak
Some Mind-Building Fun and Games:Pentago Marble Game RumisLoot, Plundering Pirate Card Game BlokusLegend of Landlock SetRainbow Pentominoes and book Presto Change-ORat-a-Tat Cat QuoridorApples to Apples Jr. Quarto
Books of Reading Lists: These books have lists of great books to read.The Read-Aloud Handbook Children’s Literature Lover’s Book of ListsA Literary Education Books That Build CharacterBooks Children Love Honey for a Child’s HeartLet the Authors Speak Great Books in the Christian TraditionInvitation to the Classics Living Book Reviews A Few Good Books: (more on the history page)Below I’ve listed just a few good books that are in print. Many classics are not on this list due to space limitations.For younger children:The Aesop for ChildrenBasho and the Fox Book of Virtues The Complete Tales of Beatrix PotterThe Complete Tales of Winnie the PoohMy Father’s Dragon Curious George Little House in the Big WoodsNate the GreatBilly and Blaze The Thanksgiving StoryThe Courage of Sarah Noble The Bears on Hemlock MountainThe Matchlock Gun The Cabin Faced WestPhoebe the SpySarah Whitcher’s Story Carolina’s CourageMountain BornJust So Stories The Hundred DressesThe Sword in the Tree Squanto, Friend of the PilgrimsPaddle-to-the-Sea PagooMinn of the Mississippi SeabirdCottage at Bantry Bay; Francie on the Run; PegeenCharlotte’s WebStuart Little PoppyWheel on the School House of Sixty FathersHank the CowdogHalf MagicKnight’s Castle Swallows and AmazonsThe Mouse of Amherst (Emily Dickenson)Little Britches NEW: Birchbark House The Game of Silence
For older children: Dangerous Journey: Pilgrim’s ProgressPhantom Tollbooth The Complete Book of Dragons (Nesbit)The CayAll of a Kind Family The Silver PencilThe YearlingThe Door in the Wall Johnny TremainCalico BushThe Trumpeter of Krakow Indian CaptiveThe GiverWalk Two Moons Snow Treasure North to Freedom (I am David)Carry On, Mr. Bowditch Moccasin TrailThe Golden Goblet Mara, Daughter of the NileCaddie Woodlawn The Good Master The Singing TreeThe White Stag The Defender Sarah Bishop The Bronze BowCalico CaptiveThe Sign of the Beaver The Witch of Blackbird PondEagle of the Ninth Lantern Bearers Banner in the SkyDetectives in Togas Laddie Freckles Girl of the LimberlostThe Hiding Place With Pipe, Paddle & Song: The Story of French-Canadian VoyageursAmos Fortune, Free Man Hittite Warrior