Ambleside online

Here I am going to share a few tips(and some free resources!) to help smooth your transition to homeschooling using the Charlotte Mason philosophy and Ambleside Online.

Join me for a look at a week with Ambleside Online in our home. See our schedules and how they work in real life and how I plan each week.

It's coming and with a quick pep talk, Charlotte Mason & Ambleside Online we can homeschool. Unschooling? I'm UnMomming this is year! Don't panic! I got this!

I can't quite wrap my mind around it, but we are done with school! We just finished Year 6 and Year 8 with Ambleside Online and it was fabulous. I feel like I also learned a ton, right alongside them! Watercolor Narrations from Y6 & Y8 over the past few weeks I will start with Year 6 first - Louisa turned 12 years old mid-year and this year was a great stretch for her. The workload increases a bit starting in Term 2 with additional readings and more challenging books. We really stuck pretty…

Amazon links are affiliate links. I love it when you click on those…so thanks! I’m really looking into Ambleside Online and think it may be more appropriate for my children… I have NO idea how to implement AO, I mean none. I feel like I’ve read the website cover to cover, but have I missed some big page that gives me weekly ideas or instructions on how to gather materials and organize my day? How in the world do you Continue Reading...

I have several homeschooling sisters and friends with children slightly younger than mine. Because I've heard similar responses from several of them when I tell them I'm using Ambleside Online, I've decided to dedicate a post to these sisters and friends. The responses I can remember go something like this: "I can't see my child being ready for the books they recommend at age six." "I've checked out their website. It just seems like SO MUCH to do!" "I have several younger children. I can't…

Homeschool Morning Time Menus with Free Printables. Everything you need to fill your menus if using Ambleside Online for 2021- 2022.

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I started AO year 1 with my youngest daughter (aka Moozle) at the beginning of this year just before she turned 7 years of age. This has been the first time in about 19 years of homeschooling that I've actually followed a set curriculum - I basically stuck to the weekly schedule and added some extras. My planning is very simple. I have the page below as a Word document and each week I go to the weekly AO schedule & copy & paste the books & chapters from there onto this page, add in Composer…