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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    Irish Nature Study

    Guest Post: Nature Study – How Can I Teach What I Don’t Know?

    Irish nature lover and home educator Maireen has written a lovely post answering the question “How can I teach what I don’t know?” when thinking about studying nature. I have been chatting recently to a friend about homeschooling and nature study. She said she and her husband had been looking at my Instagram feed and he spotted the post on silk button galls and wondered how I know so much stuff about so many topics. She turned to him and said, you know she uses an app for that? What?!? She said she could hear me tumble off the pedestal in his head. I laughed, I know very little – I…

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

    Irish nature lover and home educator Maireen has written a lovely post describing what she brings along for a nature walk. She has included some of her beautiful photographs of her family on a nature walk. You can see more of her photos on her Instagram. Maireen lives with her long-suffering husband, their two little girls and a motley collection of animals in the sunny southeast of Ireland where the family have been trying to carve out a little corner of heaven on their acre of land. Maireen spent her early years in the West Indies before the pull of home drew her dad to bring the family to Ireland.…

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    The Ambleside Online curriculum uses the Burgess Animal Book, read one chapter per week, in Year Two (so they recommend for ~ age 7-8. Mine did this together ages 7 and 5 and it worked great).  We have the colour illustrated Living Book Press edition (Amazon UK, Book depo). The Burgess Animal Book is out of copyright, so you can read it for free online. Although this is by an American author, I am glad we, living in Ireland, read this book. Many of the animals in the book are in Ireland and those that are not come up in many storybooks, so it was good for them to learn…

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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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