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In working on my plans for my little people, I always look to Charlotte Mason's Formidable list of Attainments for a Child of 6.
Here they are if you've never seen them (from Ambleside):
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"A Formidable List of Attainments for a Child of Six"
A reprint of a curriculum outline from a CM school in the 1890's. from Summer 93 Parents Review pub by Karen Andreola
1. To recite, beautifully, 6 easy poems and hymns
2. to recite, perfectly and beautifully, a parable and a psalm
3. to add and subtract numbers up to 10, with dominoes or counters
4. to read--what and how much, will depend on what we are told of the child
5. to copy in print-hand from a book
6. to know the points of the compass with relation to their own home, where the sun rises and sets, and the way the wind blows
7. to describe the boundries of their own home
8. to describe any lake, river, pond, island etc. within easy reach
9. to tell quite accurately (however shortly) 3 stories from Bible history, 3 from early English, and 3 from early Roman history (my note here, we may want to substitute early American for early English!)
10. to be able to describe 3 walks and 3 views
11. to mount in a scrap book a dozen common wildflowers, with leaves (one every week); to name these, describe them in their own words, and say where they found them.
12. to do the same with leaves and flowers of 6 forest trees
13. to know 6 birds by song, colour and shape
14. to send in certain Kindergarten or other handiwork, as directed
15. to tell three stories about their own "pets"--rabbit, dog or cat.
16. to name 20 common objects in French, and say a dozen little sentences
17. to sing one hymn, one French song, and one English song
18. to keep a caterpillar and tell the life-story of a butterfly from his own observations. |
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I decided to put the checklist into a format that I could use to record some of these attainments. Thought I'd share! 
Checklist as a pdf
2010-06-11_083003_CM's_Formidable_List_as_checklist.pdf
Checklist as a Microsoft Word document (so you can make changes)
2010-06-11_082805_CM's_Formidable_List_as_checklist.doc
Hope they're a help!
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You are awesome Jen! This is great!
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I was hesitant to even click on this. Formidable is right. 
Thanks, Jen, for the documents.
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Jen,
Can you come to my house and help me organize my life?  You are always on to something it seems. I enjoy all of your finds and your organizational tips. I thought of you earlier today as I tried to make sense of my summer, which isn't really a summer as much as summer school for all the littles who need my time and attention. What a neat find today though as I try to figure out how to order their year.
Thanks!
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Eight Wonders wrote:
Jen,
Can you come to my house and help me organize my life? You are always on to something it seems. I enjoy all of your finds and your organizational tips. I thought of you earlier today as I tried to make sense of my summer, which isn't really a summer as much as summer school for all the littles who need my time and attention. What a neat find today though as I try to figure out how to order their year.
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 Kim!!!!!!!
Thank you all for your sweet words! I suppose I'm just in one of those great super-productive seasons and I LOVE to share! What a joy if it could be of service to you in some small way!
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Oh, my.
I'd better get busy. Not sure if *I* can do all that!
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lapazfarm wrote:
Oh, my.
I'd better get busy. Not sure if *I* can do all that!
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ROTFL!!!!!! And,it IS very nature-oriented, so if you can't, well...then....it IS formidable!
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SuzanneG wrote:
lapazfarm wrote:
Oh, my.
I'd better get busy. Not sure if *I* can do all that!
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ROTFL!!!!!! And,it IS very nature-oriented, so if you can't, well...then....it IS formidable! |
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Oh, it's not the nature---I've got that solid. It's the poetry, the Roman History, and the French(!!!) that would get me!
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All kidding aside, it really is a fabulous list. And what a lovely picture of CM education it paints!
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lapazfarm wrote:
| All kidding aside, it really is a fabulous list. And what a lovely picture of CM education it paints! |
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Yes, so true. That list always helps to "ground me." It's the opposite of what we tend to "fret over" for the little ones.
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I know this says for children age 6, but I'm thinking this would make a nice summer project for my kids to do--something to keep them from constantly asking me "what can I do today? I'm so bored!" Obviously some things we won't need to do (learn to read, add & subtract, etc) but the history, nature study and poetry memorization would definitely keep them busy!
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lapazfarm wrote:
SuzanneG wrote:
lapazfarm wrote:
Oh, my.
I'd better get busy. Not sure if *I* can do all that!
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ROTFL!!!!!! And,it IS very nature-oriented, so if you can't, well...then....it IS formidable! |
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Oh, it's not the nature---I've got that solid. It's the poetry, the Roman History, and the French(!!!) that would get me! |
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I've been meaning to get back to this...since Charlotte was doing her work in Great Britain and France was so close, she felt it very important that the children knew French. Our context here in the States is different. I substitute a few of the simple prayers of the church in Latin for the French requirements on the formidable list (I'm pretty sure the docs I uploaded include that...and that's my addition, not from Miss Mason's list! I shoulda' said that earlier!)
French songs are easy and fun to learn, but then my family history has some French in it, so maybe it's not intimidating to me because my mother sang some of those songs to me. I don't see why you couldn't substitute appropriate languages, ones that would be of service to your children in your situation. For example, here in the States, knowing some Spanish would be a very good thing. The Holy Father asked that all Catholics know the basic prayers of the Church in Latin, so that could be substituted.
I hope I haven't taken too many liberties with Miss Mason's work to suggest the context/geographical locale in which it was written influenced some of the selections.
Emily,
I love your idea as using this as a summer primer of sorts! Wouldn't that make a lovely summer experience! Please let us know how it goes if you do that!
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I just made a few changes to it, and I'm going to see if my kids are willing to do it as a summer project. Some parts I think they may balk at (instead of adding and subtracting I changed it to memorizing math facts) but otherwise, I think it might be kind of fun!
Maybe I'll blog about it later...do you mind if I share your checklist? &n bsp; &n bsp;
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EmilyC wrote:
Maybe I'll blog about it later...do you mind if I share your checklist? &n bsp; &n bsp; |
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Hey...that'd be great if you blog it! Let us know! And please do feel free to share the checklist - I really just added a little formatting flair...the list is Charlotte Mason's.
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Mackfam wrote:
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Actually I think it's a very important distinction to make! Charlotte Mason's philosophy isn't tied to the past and even while she was alive others realized they could adapt it to their own time, place and circumstances. She encouraged as much and had women from other countries come to her teacher training college to learn the method and then return home to apply it to their own culture.
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I have a couple of blog posts up about how we're going to use the checklist for our summer studies, if anyone is interested.
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Thank you Emily!
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You're welcome!
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Printing this off to ask my high school students... and maybe my husband too!
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