Planning Your Homeschool Schedule | Mason Timetable | Classical Charlotte Mason Homeschool |

[@bryersheridan815]

Love your hair so encouraging to see someone keep their natural hair color through the graying season of life , I’m thirty this year and quite gray my husband lovingly teases that I ought to die it but I don’t want to haha I’m willing to embrace it I like to say I’m just letting my wisdom show ;) 🤓😇🧐😜

[@thecommonplacehomeschool]

Oh, thank you! Well done on not dyeing it. I was until I decided to quit and embrace about six months ago! A blessed aging to you as well. It's its own kind of lovely, yes?

[@janellewhite8030]

I was thinking the same thing!! I just call my silvers "sparklies" and that makes me feel better 😅

[@racheln4309]

I am 28 and to be honest I’m kind of waiting for the gray! Haha!

[@Lmalatz]

"Colonels don't quit; quitters don't get tea" made me laugh out loud. *Immediately hits subscribe*

[@thecommonplacehomeschool]

Haha! Children chanting it down the streets is my favourite thing.

[@rebeccamorris1032]

A Swedish Drill example would be great.

[@thecommonplacehomeschool]

Like how we do it? Our main resources are The Schoolyard and Dawn Duran! I follow their commands/sets!

[@rebeccamorris1032]

@thecommonplacehomeschool Yes thank you, I will check it out.

[@livmuller7109]

yes that would be great!

[@desireewhittington9035]

Thank you for just being.. real.

[@thecommonplacehomeschool]

Some say that pursuing truth, goodness, and beauty in meaningful ways really should make us Real persons--like the Velveteen Rabbit. I've always liked that.

[@kristianaivanova1806]

This video might have just "sold" your patron to me! Because quite frankly I too have failed to see among those daily rhythm schedules a space for "cook dinner", "fold laundry", "mop and hoover", "prep lunch and breakfast" etc. Helpful as always, thanks Autumn! ❤

[@thecommonplacehomeschool]

I hope you enjoy bopping around the House!

[@mattandapril6225]

Autumn, this was, like, *really* helpful. Thank you ☺️.

[@thecommonplacehomeschool]

You're quite welcome!

[@jessica_wood]

Yes to not being a slave to the curriculum! Part of the appeal of homeschool is the freedom it affords! And yet we moms voluntarily think we need to box ourselves in all the time. 😂 Also, I’m glad you mentioned putting the reading block at the beginning of the day. I have mine set up that way for the reason you mentioned and I’m glad you confirmed my suspicion.

[@thecommonplacehomeschool]

Jessica! I was just watching your book video for the year. I see you are an old book hunter as well. (Isn't it so fun to find those old copies?!) I was distracted by the oven beep and forgot to say that I loved your point that living books does not mean only fiction. Such a good thing so often lost in the Mason world!

[@jessica_wood]

@@thecommonplacehomeschool Oh yes, give me all the old books!

[@andycastro1014]

What are these chants? Turtles don't quit? Sounds fun.

[@thecommonplacehomeschool]

Turtles definitely don’t quit, and neither do Kernels (Kern kids). We stole that one from Swallows and Amazons (If not duffers, won’t drown. We’re not duffers.)

[@sarat2205]

Thanks for this! Appreciate you!

[@thecommonplacehomeschool]

So glad to have you here! Happy planning!

[@areoivy]

I noticed you mentioned the things of education that give a tactile aspect to learning. I feel like I focus so much on the books I really struggle to do anything that isn’t a book. I’m wondering if possibly you could share a bit more of what you mean by this. We are already dutifully doing handicraft or sloyd daily (so much treasure to be found there) but we fell off the painting wagon (my toddler found watching us practising super frustrating and struggled to find ways to be involved and then we were moving and I’m pregnant so it just slipped off the list with Swedish drill, to the frustration of my 1b student). We were doing folk songs/foreign language and classic music but with a big move and a pregnancy and a toddler and preschooler those things also fell off the schedule since my 1B complained about them and hated doing them. Apparently he hates music. Of course a new year is starting and we will reincorporate all of these things as we go (hopefully by spring we will be back to our full feast but we are going to work up to it since baby is coming and they’ve told me to expect a slow recovery period so we will be pacing ourselves) I’m wondering if those things are what you mean (painting, handicraft, sloyd, music, drill) or if there is something beyond this I’ve completely missed. While I want to spread a feast like this for all my boys I can see that my bookish older child is mostly annoyed with these beautiful subjects because they aren’t in a book. My middle son is a completely different personality and for him that is where he will shine and I’m hoping to get it figured out quickly so I’m ready for him to start 1B in another year.

[@thecommonplacehomeschool]

Great question! So there are "things" in our education like handicraft. I was referring to how children learn by engaging in God's world with physical things. For example, Charlotte Mason warns parents from reading too much to their very young kids. This blows everyone's minds. But she means it is better for a child to go to a creek or to watch butterflies than to read about a creek or butterflies. Adults learn primarily from ideas (in books, podcasts, videos, etc.) while children learn from ideas and THINGS; they need to study, touch, watch, smell, interact with the actual thing when possible. Another example: math. A Form 1 child is working with manipulatives that match the problem. 5 buttons in a problem means the child is holding actual buttons. Later in the lesson they move to pure numbers, but at first, the idea and the thing are together.

[@pienkunicorn]

Timetables are not classical per se. It's just British. My schools in South Africa and my school in Australia also called it timetables. I assure you none of these institutions had anything to do with Charlotte Mason. Man running at 7 am. It's 9:30 am and I can't get my 2 year old up. I taught university for 13 years. I've never had a term go exactly as planned.

[@thecommonplacehomeschool]

Yes, a British (and Commonwealth) phrase!

[@AmeliaBloore]

My favourite thing about your videos (really one of my favourites because every part is so wonderful) are your beautiful thumbnails! They are so inviting and I wish when I opened youtube they were all I could see 😍 Also embracing the aging here and loving it 👩‍🦳

[@thecommonplacehomeschool]

Aren't they lovely? About two months ago, I had the thought that I could give women something far more inspiring than my face! Ha! So glad you noticed and are enjoying the new thumbnails. And yes to aging! Hoping to give my kiddos a healthy view of it...even if I have to live through the awkward stage... ;)

[@ruthiesheppard729]

Even someone with 10+ years of homeschooling experience will forget that the perfect schedule will not equal the perfect homeschool situation. 😅

[@thecommonplacehomeschool]

Ya know, I thought that might be the case as I keep re-learning lessons I thought I had down ten years ago.