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 Living Booklist (More coming soon)
      • Irish Living Book list – Chronological Overview of Irish History
      • Irish Living Book list – Classic fiction set in Ireland
      • Beautifully Illustrated Irish Nature Books to Enjoy One Page a Day
    • Irish Geography
    • Irish Art
      • Art Appreciation Charlotte Mason Style
      • Irish Artist Study – Harry Clarke
    • Field Trips
      • Hugh Lane Gallery Dublin
      • Visiting Newgrange
    • Adapting US curriculum
      • Do I need to teach sentence diagramming in Ireland?
    • Nature Study
      • Beautifully Illustrated Irish Nature Books to Enjoy One Page a Day
      • 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?
      • Guest Post: Encouraging Reluctant Nature Students
  • Books & Curriculum
    • Curriculum Reviews (more coming soon)
      • Learning Handwriting using Handwriting Without Tears
      • Using All About Spelling in Ireland
      • Learning French
      • Burgess Animal Book matched to Peterson Field Guide, The World of Animals and Draw Write Now
    • Handicrafts
      • Starting Calligraphy
    • Music
      • Learning to Play the Piano in our Home
      • Music Theory
    • Our Curriculum Choices By Grade (Coming soon)
    • Books to Read Aloud
      • The Hutchinson Treasury of Stories to Read Aloud
      • Valentine’s Day! ♥
      • Some lovely books for Christmas in Irish libraries…
    • Making My Own Books
    • Audible 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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  • Start Here
  • Learning About Ireland
    • Irish Living Booklist (More coming soon)
      • Irish Living Book list – Chronological Overview of Irish History
      • Irish Living Book list – Classic fiction set in Ireland
      • Beautifully Illustrated Irish Nature Books to Enjoy One Page a Day
    • Irish Geography
    • Irish Art
      • Art Appreciation Charlotte Mason Style
      • Irish Artist Study – Harry Clarke
    • Field Trips
      • Hugh Lane Gallery Dublin
      • Visiting Newgrange
    • Adapting US curriculum
      • Do I need to teach sentence diagramming in Ireland?
    • Nature Study
      • Beautifully Illustrated Irish Nature Books to Enjoy One Page a Day
      • 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?
      • Guest Post: Encouraging Reluctant Nature Students
  • Books & Curriculum
    • Curriculum Reviews (more coming soon)
      • Learning Handwriting using Handwriting Without Tears
      • Using All About Spelling in Ireland
      • Learning French
      • Burgess Animal Book matched to Peterson Field Guide, The World of Animals and Draw Write Now
    • Handicrafts
      • Starting Calligraphy
    • Music
      • Learning to Play the Piano in our Home
      • Music Theory
    • Our Curriculum Choices By Grade (Coming soon)
    • Books to Read Aloud
      • The Hutchinson Treasury of Stories to Read Aloud
      • Valentine’s Day! ♥
      • Some lovely books for Christmas in Irish libraries…
    • Making My Own Books
    • Audible 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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  • Mater Dei History
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    Mater Dei Irish History

    Mater Dei Education is a new Irish curriculum provider. Mater Dei was “founded in 2020 to support homeschoolers in Ireland and elsewhere discover the rich classical tradition of teaching and learning from Ireland”. In 2021 Mater Dei released their Discover the Past Irish history curriculum. As they were new I could not see them before I purchased them. I only bought one of their history book sets, but it has been working well for us and I wanted to share about it. We are using the Charlotte Mason curriculum Alveary, which we are really happy with.  It has a slot for American or Canadian history, and we just substituted the…

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    Irish Living Book list – Chronological Overview of Irish History

    This is the second post in what will be a series of posts listing living books for Irish home educators with children of primary school age. 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 was looking for living books – high quality books, engagingly written with beautiful, realistic and accurate illustrations. 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. This post is focusing on books which give an overview of…

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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 over the last decade.  I hope to support you in enjoying this journey of discovery we are both on.

Wishing you a wonderful journey!  ~ Anna

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