To Inspire

A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.

Henry Brooks Adams

As at 1 July 2011 there were 6,517 home schooled students recorded on the Ministry of Education’s homeschooling database, which represents less than one per cent of total school enrolments. These students belonged to 3,532 families.

Gisborne, Otago and Hawkes Bay had the lowest proportions of homeschoolers in relation to their total school populations

Education Counts Website

living books

Living Books and a Charlotte Mason Education

The basis of using literature as the foundation for learning is to seek out book that are twaddle-free and where possible unabridged.

To read more about Charlotte Mason we have the Charlotte Mason Companion, For the Child's Sake in our Twin City Library for lending as well as a good reference book Books Children Love; or download this introduction to Charlotte Mason.

Ambleside Online has full curriculum guidelines for free on their website and internet links to free books as well.

General reading lists

1000 Good Book Reading list (Judeo-Christian)

"1000 Good Books for Children" (1916) by National Congress of Mothers and Parent-teacher Associations. Committee on Literature

Read online

Download full colour pdf

Here are some links for title ideas per subject:

Mathematics

Penny Gardner

Living Math

Don't forget the "Murderous Maths" series for older children.