SWITCHING TO AMBLESIDE ONLINE | Charlotte Mason Homeschool Curriculum

Has your family ever used Ambleside Online before? Let’s chat about it! Also, have you heard the buzz about Made 2 Homeschool?! It’s a new homeschool community made for homeschooling moms by homeschooling moms, and I’m so honored to be a part of an awesome team of ladies working hard to get it off the ground. We’re launching June 1, but a limited number of people can get in on early access next week! Learn more here and sign up for the waitlist to be alerted when early access opens: www.made2homeschool.com/a/2147529243/x3ofUa2f

Would love to hear an update on how Ambleside has worked for your family! I am planning on starting year 1 in the fall.

If I had to do this all over again, I would have started with something like Ambleside. I love Charolette Mason’s philosophy.

It's crazy how similar this video is to me lol

Would love to see more on this as we are exploring Ambleside online for next year with 3 of my children.😊

Thanks for publicly processing that we all have permission to use AO in any way we choose. 😊 this has been our first year (Y1) and I switched to it from an attempt at ADE last year. I have a soon to be 6 yo and am contemplating how to integrate him. It will really depend on how ready he is for formal lessons when he turns 6 in December. But at some point I plan to just throw him into the mix 😂. I’m always considering other curricula and I do use other pieces like SCM. But I plan to stick with AO history. I’d love to see more videos about how it’s going for you and how you’re adapting it.

I’m doing the same with my year 1 and year 3. We are doing year 2 together.

Brand new to Ambleside. Homeschooling my 3 grands but have homeschooled since my kids were young some nearly 40 years! These 3 are 10, 11 &14 and at very different learning levels per subject. God bless

YES to Ambleside Online! We also adapt it 😊

We had our first Ambleside year last year and loved it. We came from years of Tapestry of Grace and Ambleside was a better fit for us.

Hi from NS canada. We will be entering our 9th year of homeschool in September. I use ambleside as well 👍🏻. And like you I have always made it my own. I have 4 kids and have always combined everything except math and language arts. I use ambleside as more of a book list and guide and make it work for my family. There is no wrong way 💕

I’d love if you could explain how Ambleside Online works. I’ve looked into it and it seems so overwhelming for some reason. But I also have a rising highly gifted 2nd grader and a rising 4th grader that struggles a bit. I think my girls would likely do well with L3 as you explained it and would love to hear more!

We use AO book list and the Cmec for all the guides (which takes the guesswork and cuts some research time) and their Charlotte Mason Mother’s education courses and we love it! ❤

I just decided this morning to switch to AO. I would love more content like this.

I’m so excited for you! We signed up for the CMEC this year but I plan to pull from AO and ADE - as well as a few of my own resources. I, like you, also really enjoy the process of researching and planning.

This will be our 2nd year with AO. My grandson will be doing year 3 this year. We love it!

I started with the same goal of wanting history together. I first heard about CM from a cousin who used AO, but I was at first more drawn to SCM because they do family history spine, and it does seem they try to have family subjects when possible. But then - I started listening to the ADE podcast, and they explained the history cycles that Charlotte used and how we could use them now, and I fell I love with it. So, I have been putting things together from their recs, and pulling book ideas from both AO and SCM - they both have great book lists of ideas! So I am adapting too, in a way 😊 The cycles that ADE / CM uses keep all children in the same history time period together, though the younger children have less cycles, since they don’t add the extra cycles until years 4 and 5. But that way, whatever books or spines they’re reading, you can still come together and have shared topics. And the composers, artists, biographies, historical fictions that the children read that year are also coming as much as possible from that shared time period that all the children are studying together. ADE also give lots of ideas for what things you can combine and how best to do it, and what things to avoid totally combining. I won’t add my 2nd student for another year, so I don’t know what it will look like at that point, haha! 😅😉 But I do plan on always trying to find how to do things together as much as can be. For some years of history, depending where my students fall, they will definitely be reading out of the same books, and they will always be in the same time period, so it will be the same exact parts covered. That’s always a win! I think CMEC uses the same history rotation, but I’m not willing so pay for it yet. Maybe one day, if I’m too confused organizing it all.

We have been using AO this year and I love that I can just move things around to work for us. It’s been great.

We switched to AO for this school year after 3 years dabbling in all the other things and this year has been amazing. We're finishing Y3. The connections being made and retention of ideas and history is what makes it so beautiful, to see that it's all your kids', it's their possession. Hope you have the best journey and growth along side your little ones 😀

We love AO! Finishing up our 5th year in just a few weeks. :) We had a hiccup in year 2 where I tried A Gentle feast, but we went right back to AO after a couple terms and finished up year 2. AO really has some amazing books that we just can’t quit. Your plans for combining sound good. Sounds like you did your research. :) Looking forward to some AO videos, not many out there. Also, our fav year 3 book (both times) has been Children of the New Forest. 😊