My 2024-2025 Classical Charlotte Mason Curriculum Pick | The Children's Tradition with Amanda Faus
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 7 ก.ค. 2024
- In February, I decided I wanted to pull together my own curriculum. I wanted my children to have elements of the larger classical tradition that aren't present in most Charlotte Mason curricula. (I love her! But, let's admit, she's one woman in the stream of the tradition and I want the wisdom of the ages at every touch!)
I had made some good headway until my friend, Amanda Faus, dropped her new curriculum in my inbox and asked me to read it. It's everything I wanted. From Plato to John Senior, St. John Chrysostom to Charlotte Mason, Amanda has truly synthesized thousands of years of wisdom and sized it for the youngest at our homeschool tables.
I hope you enjoy our conversation.
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Find Amanda's work:
The Children's Tradition (COMMONMOM10 to get 10% off!): www.thechildrenstradition.com
The Wonder Years Podcast: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast...
The Wonder Years Substack: thewonderyears.substack.com/
Instagram: / mrsamandafaus
Kalos Classical: www.kalosclassical.com/
"The Children's Tradition Does Not Teach Subjects": thewonderyears.substack.com/p...
Amanda's In-Depth Instagram Reel: / c83w01eo1kf
Amanda and Brooke's Instagram Live (answering a lot of questions about the curriculum): / c87_m_iphqv
Resource mentioned (or related):
The Restoration of Realism, Fr. Bethel
The Death of Christian Culture, Senior
The Restoration of Christian Culture, Senior
Poetic Knowledge, Taylor
Parent's Assistant, Edgeworth
"John Senior's A Thousand Good Books" List
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To save myself from answering what I expect to be asked quite a bit: Why didn't I choose the CMEC again?
A curriculum inspired by John Senior? You ladies make my dreams come true!!! Great interview, now I have a lot of research and reading to do.
I love the idea of having “no formal subjects” as far as the kids can tell and letting their education blend together naturally. How am I just now hearing about John Senior’s 1,000 Good Books List? Further into the wardrobe I go. . . 📚
I love this pivot towards more Classical education and drawing upon all of the richness of Mason but also the tradition of thousands of years. (I agree with your assessment on Mason being Classical, but you know what I mean). This was a great conversation.
More from this guest PLEASE! I know you are very well planned ahead for your podcast Autumn- and love your generous sharing but Amanda was a guest those of us new to the classical world can understand, see ourselves in, not over our heads! I will find her podcast next! You two make a great team explaining things.
I have an almost-4yo but would love to see what is coming for us. Do you think there are elements that would be useful to me now even for preparing myself?
Where can I see a sample of this?
If you had middle school-aged students and had to pick a curriculum for the 2024-2025 school year (until Amanda comes out with the Logic stage curriculum) which one would you (or she recommend? Any direction would be greatly appreciated :)
This is so exciting! Have you heard of the Thomas Jefferson Education philosophy? This feels like it could be the bridge between the worlds of CM and TJEd that I've been trying to create for my family. I can't wait to dive into these links and things!
Just heard the name John Senior on a webinar. I’m so excited to learn more. You girls are killing it. What a great conversation.
What IS a tutorial day??
Im going to be checking all of the links and really diving into my research of the TCT because I've been praying for 2 months about our curriculum and asking God how to fill in the gaps I was feeling from the CMEC as well.
I have to say, you have become my favorite TH-cam person. Thank you for these life giving conversations, and for always being an encouragement! Also on a side note, if you haven’t heard the song “Old Neptune, He’s Roaring” by Brian Sauve, I think you’d love it!
I had heard CMEC was intense so personally I knew it was not for me. Thanks for sharing your whys.
I would love to hear more conversations like this, thank you for posting it! I was wondering if you had a link to a website that would explain what the Eastern Orthodox church teaches?
I LOVE this!! Does this also include suggested artists and composers for each year?
I love the idea of "no subjects" but I am not sure I understand that idea in the context of this particular curriculum. When I looked at the flip through video on Instagram, it looked like it was divided into subjects. What am I misunderstanding because I am very much interested in possibly giving this curriculum a try.
What would you say the main difference is with the AO curriculum? I’m interested in this but I currently pull a lot from AO and I’m thinking I may have quite a lot of the information in this curriculum already.
Are you going to supplement or add anything to this curriculum or keep to it pretty strictly? As a new homeschooler I’m curious about adding in a handwriting, grammar, and possibly more story driven history lessons.
Can you explain how this is different than Ambleside Online?