Homeschooling Made Easy: Tips for Beginners || A Classical & Charlotte Mason Guide

In this video, I share some tips for new homeschoolers, and families new to the Classical and Charlotte Mason approaches to homeschooling specifically, but these are also tips that will help any homeschooler plan out and execute those plans in an effective way! Thanks for watching!
0:00 Intro
1:51 How to combine Classical and Charlotte Mason
2:01 The Well Trained Mind book
6:07 Change How Your Students Narrate
6:47 Classical Narration Option 1
9:10 Classical Narration Option 2
17:27 How to Teach a Subject You Know Nothing About
24:53 Do You Have to Pre-Read Every Book in order to Homeschool
28:30 When Should You Start Independent Learning and How to Trust Narration
33:28 How Long Is One Day of Homeschool?
Book: The Well-Trained Mind
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[@bryersheridan815]

So helpful I’ve been torn between following classical homeschooling and charlotte mason homeschooling and I really appreciate your experience and being able to see where the classical model would be better like you said with writing right and with memorizing:) I think charlotte mason has a romance to it , it seems so lovely but I definitely lean toward the classical for the rigorous academic and the memorizing in the young years when they’re inclined to do so … it just seems a waste to not take advantage of that ability.. but I have definitely added more living books and made a point to recognize it .. and the concept of limiting twaddle makes a lot of sense. :) thanks for sharing ❤😇🫶

[@littlebitsofbliss]

So glad you found it helpful! I totally agree! There are definitely benefits to both methods! ❤️

[@joycehampton4656]

Thanks, this is a helpful video.

[@loriealderete6441]

Thanks so much for putting this video together. It was so helpful, especially the details you went into about narration.

[@littlebitsofbliss]

I’m so glad you found it helpful!

[@terpcsmith]

Wow. This is so good. Thanks for sharing this information. I am going to make these changes.

[@littlebitsofbliss]

So glad you found it helpful! ❤️

[@TheJonesClan6182011]

Thanks for this, this was so helpful, especially as the narration. We were doing purely Charlotte Mason narration and it just wasn’t working. I really like this. We are about to start Writing & Rhetoric, do you feel this fits the bill?

[@littlebitsofbliss]

Writing and Rhetoric is great! We have used it and loved it! It teaches writing skills like summarizing a passage concisely as well as creative writing techniques like amplification. I also really like Writing with Ease from the Well Trained mind that teaches how to write a well summarized narration.

[@TheJonesClan6182011]

@@littlebitsofbliss awesome thank you for that! If you had to pick Writing with Ease or Writing & Rhetoric would you choose one or they both serve different purposes?

[@littlebitsofbliss]

@@TheJonesClan6182011 I would say they are different but both will develop their writing skills. I like to use Writing with Ease for grade 1-4 and I added Writing and Rhetoric in grade 4 for added writing skills.

[@TheJonesClan6182011]

@@littlebitsofbliss Thank you so so much! This was very helpful!