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There is nothing so beautiful than witnessing your children start each homeschool day on time and independently go through their lessons with perfect execution.
When I first started constructing our children’s grade notebooks, I had no idea how I was empowering our children to take ownership of their education. I truly believed I was simply creating lesson plans for each of my children.
Imagine my surprise when our children started their daily assignments with eager attention and willing application, as early as 6:30 am, while I was sleeping, all because they knew exactly what to do, for how long, and in what order.
The Grade Notebook™ naturally forms the habits of responsibility, accountability, self-management, and self-direction in children because it empowers them to take ownership of their education.
– THE PROBLEM WITH TEACHER’S PLANNERS –
In a homeschool full of constant interruptions, multiple children, and several dependent learners, homeschooled children lack the skills and habits necessary to move on to the next thing without the constant teaching, management, and direction of the mother.
The reality is that lessons plans on their own are tools for homeschool moms to know what needs to be taught, managed, and directed based on the day and time.
Children aren’t capable to take these type of teacher’s lesson plans and move to the next thing without a tool that empowers them to take ownership of their lessons.
This is why homeschool mothers grow weary when teaching multiple children, especially when these children are dependent learners.
One homeschool mother that is responsible for teaching multiple children with multiple lesson plans easily leads to unproductive days that sadly becomes non-productive years.
This endless cycle of non-productive years results in children not showing progress in their education, causing moms to experience sleepless nights and stressful days when annual testing rolls around.
Without any idea of what to do differently, a homeschool mother feels the weight of her children’s education on her shoulder. Overtime, this weight will results in her losing her joy in homeschool … and oftentimes, in motherhood.
I’m speaking from personal experience. That’s why I became a student of Charlotte Mason’s original writing and diligently worked to create a planning system that puts the ownership of lessons in the hands of a child, once they know how to read.
The best part of this planning system is that a non-reader naturally becomes interested in taking ownership long before they can read from just watching their mother using it during lessons.
The Grade Notebook™ is this planning system that our family has tried, tested, and perfected since 2002, from Kindergarten through Graduation to execute our Charlotte Mason plans that resulted in raising motivated learners.
Year after year, I found that the Grade Notebook™ not only turned our plans into annual portfolios, but it naturally formed the habits of responsibility, accountability, self-management, and self-directing.
Now, you can use our planning system that quickly and easily empowers a child to take ownership of their lessons, once they know how to read.
A Grade Notebook Is the MOST Comprehensive,
One-Of-a-Kind Planning System for Charlotte Mason’s Method Of Education!
A GRADE NOTEBOOK™ PLANNING SYSTEM PROMOTES THE SCIENCE OF RELATIONSHIP IN YOUR CHILD’S EDUCATION
The Grade Notebook™ have been designed to go from teaching, managing, and directing multiple children to raising motivated learners that empowers a child to take ownership of their own lessons.
A Grade Notebook™ is a perfect fit for those who are …
- First time homeschoolers
- Discovering Charlotte Mason for the first time
- Attracted to this method but not sure where to start
- Embracing this method of education but want to do more
- Committed to this method of education
- Followers of this method
- Veteran Charlotte Mason moms
NATURALLY FORM HABITS WITH A GRADE NOTEBOOK™
RESPONSIBILITY
Organizing homeschool plans in a step-by-step binder has been
PROVEN to empower a child to take ownership of their lessons by clearly laying out what is expected of them during their lesson time.
ACCOUNTABILITY
Evaluating and organizing completed work will form accountability to do their best and go the right way in their lessons all year long, while effortlessly turning homeschool plans into annual portfolios.
SELF-MANAGEMENT
Supplying a simple system that even young readers can easily follow motivates them to start their lessons, while giving their full attention, so that can
finish their assignments
on time each day.
SELF-DIRECTION
Providing a clearly defined routine each day will eliminate lost time and wasted effort as a child willingly moves to the next assignment and takes pride in ordering their goings.
WHAT IS INCLUDED IN A GRADE NOTEBOOK™
– THREE DESIGNS BASED ON THE FORM YOUR CHILD IS IN THIS YEAR –
Our sturdy Grade Notebooks are beautifully designed 3-ring binders, measuring 2″ wide and 12 matching divider tabs that perfectly align with the Charlotte Mason subjects inside the Planning Packs, that are also included.
Each divider tab has gorgeous watercolor paintings with inspiring quotes on the front and prompts to uncover “subject focused interests” on the back.
Each Grade Notebook comes with 12 matching bookmarks that includes the watercolor paintings on the front and inspiring quotes on the back.
Our beautifully designed, sturdy 2″ 3-ring Binders have been designed to influence the mind of a child with imagination and affection that inspires wholesome ideas.
Design #1: The Traveler For Forms 1A & 1B
Charlotte Mason encouraged the practice of finding places mentioned in books on the map for geography lessons.
With this knowledge, The Traveler has the seven continents and five oceans, along with this quote on its cover:
“Reading can take you places you have never been.” Dr. Seuss
Design #2: The Tracker For Forms II & Forms III & IV
Charlotte Mason strongly believed in the benefits of nature study both for the intellectual and spiritual education of a child.
With this knowledge, The Tracker has this quote on its cover:
“If you track fast enough, you eventually reach the end and find a set of prints with the animal’s feet still in them.” Tom Brown Jr, Nature Observation and Tracking
Design #3: The Thinker For Forms V & VI
Charlotte Mason said that there are TWO types of people: Readers and thinkers, and those that are not.
Thoughts teach a person to reason and directs the verdicts of the conscience.
With this knowledge, The Thinker has this quote on its cover:
“Self-education is the only possible education; the rest is mere veneer laid on the surface of a child’s nature.” Charlotte Mason
– INFLUENTIAL DIVIDER TABS –
Our Influential Divider Tabs have been designed with words to ponder on gorgeous watercolor designs that perfectly align with the designs of their matching 3-ring binder: The Traveler, The Tracker, and The Thinkers.
The Influential Divider Tabs includes 12 pre-determined subjects of the Planning Framework that perfectly aligns with the Charlotte Mason method.
On the front of each divider tab includes a beautiful watercolor landscape and an inspirational quote pertaining to the them.
On the back of each divider tab there are prompts to uncover ‘interests for each subject’ and space to fill in ideas throughout the year to help guide your plans for the next year.
– INFLUENTIAL BOOKMARKS –
Our Influential Bookmarks have been designed to match the gorgeous Influential Divider Tabs.
The Influential Bookmarks includes 12 beautiful watercolor landscape on the front and an inspirational quote on the back.
– EACH GRADE NOTEBOOK COMES WITH A PLANNER PACK FOR THE FORM –
bOnce you have decided what form for your child is in, you’ll know what Grade Notebook to purchase.
The Charlotte Mason Planner Packs come in FIVE options: Form Ia, Form Ib, Form II, Form III & IV, and Form V & VI.
Each Planner Pack includes 134 pre-punched pages broken into THREE sections: Annual, Subject, and Weekly.
The Annual section guides you in planning for this stage of your child’s intellectual needs for the year for the number of books suggested for each form..
The Subject sections includes the Charlotte Mason subjects suggested for each form.
The Weekly section guides you in how to plan all of the Charlotte Mason subjects into FOCUSED subjects so that they fit the suggested hours of lessons for each form.
Each Form has guided quotes for each subject unique to that form along with “suggested time-tables” to assist you in planning short lessons tailored to the age and skills of your children.
Form Ia is for Kindergarten, which starts at age 6 for a Charlotte Mason homeschool. If your child starts formal education at 5, this is the best fit for them.
Form Ib is for 1st & 2nd Grades or ages seven and eight, and maybe nine. If your child is behind in reading but in a 3rd grade, this is the best fit for them.
Form II is for 3rd, 4th, and 5th grades or ages nine to twelve year olds, and occasionally over twelve. If your child is in 6th grade but behind in writing, this is the best fit for them.
Form III & IV is for 6th, 7th, and 8th grades or ages eleven or twelve to fifteen. If your child is advanced in their reading and writing skills but are in the 5th grade, this would be the best fit for them.
Form V & VI is for 9th, 10th, 11th, and 12th grades or ages fourteen or fifteen to eighteen. If your child is earning credits for high school, this would be the best fit for them.
CHOOSE THE GRADE NOTEBOOK™ THAT
FITS YOUR CHILD’S AGE & SKILL
Each year, you’ll create ONE Grade Notebook™ per school aged child.
If your child is a non-reader, you’ll have ownership of it to work through your lesson plans through the year and add completed work to create an annual portfolio for your child.
Watching you being consistent in using the Grade Notebook™ to see what lessons should be used for the day and marking them off when completed will build a natural desire to take ownership of it themselves.
Once a child is a reader, they will take ownership of their education while you evaluate the assignments are being done and the completed work is done to the best of the abilities.
A Grade Notebook™ includes: Matching influential binder, dividers, and bookmarks, plus the planning pack for the form that fits your child’s age and skills.
You just add the lesson assignments you select for your uniquely made child’s needs into the Form Planning Pack to plan out their Grade Notebook™.
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CHARLOTTE MASON FORMS SUBJECT-BY-SUBJECT
The Planner Packs that come with each Grade Notebook has Charlotte Mason’s ‘guided quotes’ on each subject pages. This resources organizes all the ‘guided quotes’ into one resource, walking you through what Charlotte Mason intended each form to learn subject-by-subject.
($47 Value)
THE STEP-BY-STEP CONSTRUCT MANUAL
Take the guesswork out of unboxing your Grade Notebook and knowing how to construct it and how to add your plans, in what order to streamline your planning, so you can save hours in planning and construct it in a way that motivates your kids to complete their homeschool year on time.
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RESOURCES CHARLOTTE MASON HOMESCHOOL MOMS COULD USE TO PLAN
With 25 years of experience planning my own Charlotte Mason resources there’s a few resources that I’ve used for ALL of our four children and feel they would benefit your homeschool planning as well.
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‘SOFT WEEK’ PLANNING FRAMEWORK
Discover how I give my kids ownership of their lessons with how I start our homeschool year with a week-by-week method that has been proven to motivate our children to take ownership of their lessons and complete their year ahead of schedule.
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Choose Your Grade Notebook Based On Your Child’s Form
While Supplies Last
TRAVELER GRADE NOTEBOOK™ FORM IA
TRAVELER GRADE NOTEBOOK™ FORM IB
TRACKER GRADE NOTEBOOK™ FORM II
TRACKER GRADE NOTEBOOK™ FORM III & IV
THINKER GRADE NOTEBOOK™ FORM V & VI