Beauty, Truth, and WonderChristian, Classical, Charlotte Mason Homeschool Curriculum
Why Wisdom & Wonder?
Root your homeschool in a Christian, classical, and Charlotte Mason curriculum. The Wisdom and Wonder anchors your days in Scripture, beauty, art, prayer, and hymns. Dive deep into “living” books and ideas. Make memories, fill your homeschool with delight, and look forward to homeschooling year after year.
Wisdom and Wonder is a free homeschool curriculum centered around developing relationships with God, others, and the natural world around us. We provide complete booklists for every grade level for free and offer paid courses and workshops that provide additional resources and walk you through implementing the curriculum in your homeschool.
The Plan
Our plan is to offer complete, “living” book and activity recommendations for the toddler years through high school. We will always keep these lists free. We are working on complete, open-and-go lesson plans to be used alongside these booklists.
You don’t need to have it all figured out. You simply need books that nourish your homeschool day by day.
WELCOME FRIENDS,
I’m Ashley.
I’m a homeschool mom and writer with a love for faith, books, beauty, and all things homeschool.
I created Wisdom and Wonder because I felt something was lacking in our homeschool. I wanted our days to be rooted in Scripture alongside the richness and beauty of a classical and Charlotte Mason homeschool.
When I first stumbled across Charlotte Mason’s philosophy, I was all in on using her methods. They were a breath of fresh air in our homeschool and flowed beautifully alongside a more liturgical feast of scripture and faith.
However, as I researched curricula I found a disconnect. Some curricula were rooted solely in literature from a very distant past, as if “living” books cannot be written past the year 1920. Others did well to bring more recent books into a Charlotte Mason homeschool curriculum, but they strayed too far from the past. Still, many curricula claim to be Charlotte Mason-inspired—some being more inspired than others.
I couldn’t help but ask myself, “What would Charlotte use if she lived in our world today?”
In her time, the problem was not deciding which living book to choose in the vast and seemingly endless sea of options. Instead, it was finding enough living books many would have access to in schools and the home.
Surely, she would stick with books from the past—there’s no disputing the richness in language, similar to music, art, and architecture, of yesterday. But I also firmly believe she would tie in books that have been written in the past hundred years.
That’s exactly what I hope to accomplish with Wisdom and Wonder. I wanted to create a homeschool curriculum rich in “living” books from the distant and not-so-distant past.
I also wanted a strong Christian element. When I look around, I see a world so different from the one I knew as a child. I grew up in a town where most families would have called themselves Christian. They may not have had perfect Sunday attendance, but they believed and were affiliated some church in town. My own children don’t have that. And whether they stick with their faith as adults, it’s important to me that they leave our home knowledgable about their faith.
