Charlotte Mason lessons, with the prep already done
We do the planning. The books come alive. Your child does the learning.
For Charlotte Mason and living-books homeschool mothers, often teaching several ages at once with little ones underfoot, who love the books but do not have time to prepare the map work, narration prompts, copywork, and accuracy checks for every lesson. Kindred Thicket prepares it all: structured video lessons you can play right on your living room television, Companion Packs with the paper work done for you, and The Listening Grove, a growing audio library you can listen to right on the page, free.
We hold the structure of the Charlotte Mason lesson for you, from the first moment to the last, so you can gather your children and press play. The lessons reach across subjects, living-book read-alouds for history and nature study, picture study, and more to come, and may carry a short opening to draw your child in, a moment of telling back, the vocabulary made clear, the key places to find, narration with support on screen, and a gentle close. The lessons are free.
Printable helps that make the lessons easy to lead, sent when you join the list. Depending on the subject they include character cards, scene cards, coloring pages, the nature study bird cards, and the Picture Study discussion cards. A place to begin, no purchase needed.
For families who want all the paper work ready in one place. Depending on the subject, the pack may include a vocabulary sheet, key places, chapter-by-chapter map work, a list of key people for narration, copywork at three levels, object study, Book of Centuries entries, and parent-facing accuracy notes, an errata of every change.
The Kindred Thicket audio library. Hear the exclusive Kindred Thicket Revised Edition as an audiobook, free, with the Charlotte Mason lesson beside the player. For the car or bedtime, a free Kindred Thicket playlist in the Yoto app is coming soon.*
* A free Kindred Thicket playlist in the Yoto app is coming soon. Not affiliated with Yoto.
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Not sure where to start?
Pick your subjects and chapters, and we will build you a custom open-and-go sequence with a printable plan.
We keep the beauty of the original living book and write a Kindred Thicket Revised Edition that corrects the factual mistakes, historical errors and outdated science of the original, brings old animal names up to date, and puts right dated and offensive wording. Every change is explained in plain accuracy notes, an errata of what we adjusted, so you can see exactly what we changed and decide what to share. The current Revised Editions are Our Island Story, This Country of Ours, and the Burgess Bird Book, with more on the way, available as part of the structured video lessons on YouTube and as audiobooks in The Listening Grove.
Clear and expressive.
A clear, expressive reading, brought to your family right on your living room television, with the words on screen for every child to follow, even with a baby on a lap.
The prep is ours.
The hook, the moment to tell back, the vocabulary, the places to find, and the invitation to narrate are already prepared, so you can stay present with your children instead of preparing the lesson.
How a lesson feels
You press play, and the video carries the Charlotte Mason rhythm. No two lessons are exactly alike, and each subject has its own shape, but a typical reading unfolds like this. It begins with a short opening that draws your child in, then a moment to tell back what she remembers from last time. Next comes the vocabulary she may need: some words from the original text are no longer familiar to a child today, so we make them clear, and nothing keeps her from the story. If a place matters to the chapter, she is invited to find it in her atlas. Then the reading itself, read aloud in a clear voice with the words on screen. Afterward, she is invited to narrate what she heard, with the chapter's people and places listed on screen to support her, before the reading comes to a close.
Kind words from families who have used Kindred Thicket copywork:
“This is coming in really handy in our homeschool. We are really enjoying having the cursive practice and the reinforcement of the stories.”
Angela C.
“An attractive resource that was inviting to the students. The selected excerpts were relevant and meaningful.”
Charles A.
“I really feel like this helps reinforce the subject matter and helps with retention.”
Angela C.
Start with the free tools
New here? Join the list for our free printable tools, the character and scene cards, coloring pages, the nature study bird cards, and the Picture Study discussion cards, and we will send them along, with a note now and then when a new lesson, pack, or reading is ready.
