I thought it might also be helpful to mention a couple of the goals we had in mind when we created the curriculum guide at Simply Charlotte Mason. We’re sometimes asked why we created another curriculum guide when there were good choices out there already. That’s a very good question.

One of the big goals was to help ease the burden on moms by combining multiple ages of children within a subject as much as possible. The whole family can then study the core together with older students having additional materials for self-study.

The other thing is that we think of it as a guide rather than a set curriculum. It’s designed to be a starting point that you can customize to fit your family. Some like to use it as is, but others substitute free materials for some of the commercial recommendations or bring in some resources they like better from Ambleside or other sources. In fact, we update the curriculum guide and change resources as we learn of new ones that are a better fit or are easier to find, etc.