Classical Home Education in Dublin

Support for Irish families using the Classical and Charlotte Mason approach to Home School

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  • Learning About Ireland
    • Irish Geography
    • Irish Art
      • Art Appreciation Charlotte Mason Style
      • Irish Artist Study – Harry Clarke
    • Field Trips
      • Hugh Lane Gallery Dublin
    • Adapting US curriculum
      • Do I need to teach sentence diagramming in Ireland?
    • Irish Living Booklist (More coming soon)
      • Irish Living Book list – Classic fiction set in Ireland
    • Nature Study
      • What’s in our bag when we go out for a nature walk? Guest Post!
      • Guest Post: Nature Study – How Can I Teach What I Don’t Know?
  • Books & Curriculum
    • Curriculum Reviews (more coming soon)
      • Learning Handwriting using Handwriting Without Tears
      • Learning to Play the Piano in our Home
      • Our Curriculum Choices By Grade (Coming soon)
    • Books to Read Aloud
      • The Hutchinson Treasury of Stories to Read Aloud
    • Making My Own Books
  • Mother’s Education
    • Keeping Notebooks with Charlotte Mason
    • I want to read Charlotte Mason’s volumes – Which book should I buy?
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    Ambleside Online Books,  Books & Curriculum

    I want to close my Audible account… What could I buy with my Audible credits?

    It is common to subscribe to Audible and not be listening as quickly as the credits clock up. But you have to spend all your credits before you unsubscribe or you lose them. What books might you buy? I’ve seen this question a number of times, so here are some suggestions for Irish home educators… And by the way, when you unsubscribe Amazon often offer a great deal, like 3 months at half price, or even 3 months for 99p, which as I write, is available here, for new or previous subscribers. On Audible, I would tend to go for books that aren’t easily obtainable in hardcopy in Ireland, requiring…

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    Books & Curriculum,  Books to Read Aloud,  Irish Booklist,  Irish Geography,  Irish Nature Study,  Uncategorized

    Irish Living Book list – Classic fiction set in Ireland

    This is the first post in what will be a series of posts listing living books for Irish home educators with children in primary school. Reading quality books is an important part of a Charlotte Mason education, whether snuggled on the couch reading aloud together or reading to themselves. I had difficulty locating living books set in Ireland and could not find a comprehensive list, so I am slowly creating such a list on this website to share with you. Tom McCaughren wrote: “When my daughters were growing up I realised there were few books for young people written, set and published in Ireland so I decided to write some…

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    Books & Curriculum,  Mother's Education

    I want to read Charlotte Mason’s volumes – Which book should I buy?

    I am delighted that you are at this page as it means you are planning to read Charlotte Mason’s volumes.  When you go searching there are a variety of different printings of the six volumes which Charlotte Mason wrote and it can be a bit confusing.  To clarify: the content in the different editions is the same.  In the editions listed below the page numbering has been kept identical, to facilitate quoting with page numbers. There are some poor-quality reproductions on Amazon.  Below I list and provide links to quality editions for those of us in Ireland.  (The links will be equally valid for those in the UK.) I am…

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    July 5, 2020
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    Learning to Play the Piano in our Home

    Why? ~ Introduction to Music ~ Our Piano ~ Piano for littles ~ Piano apps for a bit older ~ Starter Piano Song Books ~ Further Thoughts ~ Relationships “Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination and life to everything.” – Plato Like every subject in our homeschool, I think it is important to think about the ‘Why’.  For us, it’s not about our child being a concert pianist or being in a band, although that may become their interest in the future.  For me, it’s about giving my children the opportunity to be able to make beautiful music and most importantly…

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    Making My Own Books

    I was making some simple comb bound books as I get ready for more formal school.  It is quick to make a book like this when you have a printer, binder and cutter, but fathoming it out the first time can take a bit of time.  To simplify it for you,  I made notes as I worked to create this post.  But before going into how, here’s why… Why would I want to print a book myself? Option 1:  The book is out of copyright and you want a physical book but … The book is currently out of stock. You want to be sure of a certain font size.  Some…

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  • Hutchinson Treasury of Stories to read aloud
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    The Hutchinson Treasury of Stories to Read Aloud

    I wanted to recommend the book The Hutchinson treasury of stories to read aloud selected by Janet Schulman.  This book was previously been printed under the title The 20th-Century Children’s Book Treasury.   The content is the same. This book contains many books which are recommended on various US curriculum.  It used to be on Sonlight’s PreK curriculum for families abroad to reduce shipping.  Many of the stories would be nicer in their original single book per story format, but this is a great option to read them first to see if you and your children enjoy them.  There are lots of copies of this book in the Irish libraries –…

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    What’s in our bag when we go out for a nature walk? Guest Post!

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A little blog to bring awareness of the Classical and Charlotte Mason approach to home education (home schooling) to Irish families by showing how my family use this style: how we supplement, substitute and adapt US curriculum; include Irish history and geography; information on books fitting this approach available in our libraries; local resources and the wonderful local field trips available.

I hope to come alongside you as a friend on this journey sharing what I have learnt and what others have shared with me.  I hope to support you in enjoying this journey of discovery we are both on.  

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