content being curated, please be patient!
I want this place to be as uncluttered and straight forward as possible. Beginning and end of school year posts will be linked here so you can easily jump to whichever grade you want to see. As you’ll see, in the early years I started by building my own, moving to Beautiful Feet Books, then landing on Ambleside Online. That whole journey was necessary for me.
I always thought I would build my own curriculum, but I am now so happy resting on the wisdom and experience of the AO ladies and using my creative energies elsewhere. I have left up my faltering beginning years so you can read them and glean from them if you can, but AO has been the biggest blessing in its thorough organization.
There are also a few posts where I share things we have learned that I feel are important to one’s education but they don’t fit in a school grade, so I will share those here, too.
Cultivating the Habit of Obedience – The Expectation of Obedience
The Journey to Independent Reading
Handicrafts, Fear + The Gospel
Feast for the Famous – the way we celebrate the men and women we are reading about each term
Our Timeline – pictures and video
Homeschool plans by grade:
Grade 7 + 8 – 2020/2021 –
Grade 6 + 7 – 2019/2020 –
Printable Notebook covers for my year 7’s Travelers Notebook
AO years 6 and 7 in review
Grade 5 + 6 – 2018/2019 – AO years 5 and 6
Book of Marvels Video Companion – The Orient
Book of Marvels Video Companion – The Occident
Grade 4 + 5 – 2017/2018 –
AO years 4 and 5 the plan
and year 4 and 5 in review
Examples of written and oral narrations
Grade 3 + 4 – 2016/2017 -We followed AO year 3 and 4
Paul Bunyan and American Landmarks
Grade 2 + 3 – 2015/2016 – Grade 2 and 3 year long plan
Beautiful Feet Books post one and post two
Grade 1 + 2 – 2014/2015 – 1 and 2 Somehow there seems to be no documentation of this year, but I have this post on our homeschool room and it shares a bit of that year.
Grade 1 + Kindergarten – 2013/2014 – K and 1 – our year plan
Kindergarten and Pre K – 2012/2013 – pre K and K – our plan