2025-2026 Charlotte Mason Book Club

 


Each year our local Charlotte Mason mamas gather for a book discussion where we talk about what we read in one of the volumes and discuss articles that were written in the PNEU and Parent Review magazines. This year we are discussing Volume 2 (one of my favorites) in the original 6 volume home education series along with Book 3 from the vintage articles. Here is our reading schedule:

August - Volume 2 chapters 1-4
Article links: The Art of Storytelling / Imagination as a Powerful Factor / The House of Education

September - Volume 2 chapters 5-8
Article links: Teaching of History to Young Children / A Note on the Teaching of School Science / Home Education Under Six

October - Volume 2 chapters 9-11
Article links: Jane Austen / The Brontës / What I Owe to the Classics

November - Volume 2 chapters 12-15
Article links: Letter to the Children / Early Influences / Citizenship and Literature

February - Volume 2 chapters 16-18
Article links: Recitation / Examinations and the PNEU / The Nobility of Work

March - Volume 2 chapters 19-20
Article links: Should Children Reason / The Whole Teacher / Things New and Old

April - Volume 2 chapters 21-24
Article links: Transfiguration or The Heavenly Vision / Easter Day / The Mystery of the Kingdom of God

May - Volume 2 chapters 25-26
Article links: Seed Time / The Cure of a Mental Habit / The Liberal Education for All


For all our past reading schedules you can read more here:

https://gcahomeschool.blogspot.com/2021/09/my-ultimate-charlotte-mason-volume.html


To purchase the Book 3 which includes all these articles in print, click here!

 
 









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