MERGING Charlotte Mason & Unschooling?!? – will this work???
I recently had the (possibly brilliant) idea to merge the Charlotte Mason method and unschooling for the next school year. Here’s how I’m thinking of doing it . . .

I recently had the (possibly brilliant) idea to merge the Charlotte Mason method and unschooling for the next school year. Here’s how I’m thinking of doing it . . .
We tend to be flexible in our homeschool and don’t “do school” five days a week. Our more laidback homeschool approach means that we are also never really “off”. So while the summers may look a little different, we are still learning. And this summer we have a couple of different studies we plan on…
We are close to closing out on our fourth year homeschooling (!!!! How did that go so quickly?!) and it’s time to make some changes, officially. There are a variety of homeschool methods, including one I wish I could do but just doesn’t suit my personality and our life. For the past four years I…
I’m not really the kind of person who likes to put myself in a box (I’m a rebel through and through) BUT I have found it helpful to figure out what homeschool method works best for us. We just finished our fourth year homeschooling and we finally hit our stride in the last few months…
Today I am sharing how I go about planning our homeschool year without a curriculum. We are officially unschoolers which means we are relaxed and have a simple homeschool rhythm and setting broad goals for the year works well for our family. RESOURCES MENTIONED Homeschool Vision Planner Broad Homeschool Goals
So, I’ve never done one of these but I thought I would show our curriculum plans for grade 6 for the fall. I’m using the term “curriculum” very loosely here. We are very much eclectic homeschoolers, bordering on the unschooling side but this year my daughter is going into grade six and I want to…
I’m honestly not sure if one can be involved in the homeschool community in any way online without quickly hearing about Brave Writer. If you read around homeschool blogs for more than five minutes you are going to hear about someone raving about Julie and Brave Writer. And for good reason. Remember when I was…