There’s a moment I want every Charlotte Mason mom to experience.
It happens somewhere in the first hour. You’ve just finished highlighting your calendar — terms marked, breaks blocked, a real start date and a real end date circled in your own hand. You set down your highlighter. And you look at it.
The whole year. Right there. On paper.
The first time I had that moment, I remember the feeling more than anything else. It wasn’t excitement exactly. It was more like a breath I hadn’t realized I’d been holding finally releasing. I had everything mapped out. I wouldn’t be playing catch-up anymore. And something else shifted too — I could see the summer differently. I had space to pre-read, to prep, to actually be present during lessons instead of scrambling to stay one page ahead. (If you want to grab my free pre-reading guide, you can download it here!)
That moment is what Plan Your Year Live is built around.
On June 22nd, we spend three hours together doing the actual work — not talking about planning, not exploring frameworks, but building your Charlotte Mason schedule, your timetable, your book forecasts, and your daily checklist so you leave with something real in your hands.
Here’s a behind-the-scenes look at exactly what we do.
Before you keep reading: If you want to walk away from this summer with your whole Charlotte Mason school year mapped out — grab my free CM Planning Guide below. It’s the first step toward a Charlotte Mason schedule that works on a Tuesday morning, not just a Sunday night.
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What Is a Charlotte Mason Schedule — and Why Most Moms Never Build One That Sticks
Most Charlotte Mason moms aren’t failing the method. They’re following a planning approach that was never built for their real life.
If you’ve ever built a beautiful Charlotte Mason schedule on Sunday night that fell apart by Wednesday — you don’t have a discipline problem. You have a planning structure problem. And that’s actually good news, because planning structure is fixable.
The overwhelm most moms feel isn’t a curriculum problem. It’s a Charlotte Mason scheduling problem. And not the kind that gets solved by finding a better template or a more organized booklist. It goes deeper than that.
We come to Charlotte Mason with vision and enthusiasm. We read the books, feel the beauty of the method, and then try to implement everything at once. We put too much in. Nothing gets done well. The Charlotte Mason daily schedule collapses by Tuesday. We restart Monday. By the third week we’re back in the curriculum spiral.
We’re not failing the method. We’re failing to plan in a way that fits our family.
That’s what this workshop is designed to fix.
📖 Related reading: Why Your Charlotte Mason Homeschool Curriculum Plan Keeps Falling Apart (And How to Transform This in 4 Steps)
Inside the Plan Your Year Live Workshop: Your Charlotte Mason Schedule, Built in 3 Hours
The workshop is divided into four parts. Each one builds on the last. By the time we’re done, you have a complete Charlotte Mason schedule — calendar, timetable, book forecasts, and daily checklist — finished during our time together.
Here’s what each part looks like.
Part 1: Map Your Charlotte Mason School Year
What a Charlotte Mason Annual Calendar Actually Does
We start with the big picture — because most moms are carrying their whole year in their heads, and that alone creates low-grade anxiety.
Inside the workbook, you’ll find a calendar at a glance — eleven months spread out so you can see the shape of your entire year at once. With highlighters in hand, we mark your term dates, your breaks, and your start and stop dates.
This sounds simple. It is simple. And it changes everything.
When your year is in your head, it’s a source of stress. When it’s on paper, it becomes a plan you can trust.
What Happens When You See Your Whole Year at Once
By the time you set down your highlighter, your year has a shape. You can see it. You can hold it.
That breath of fresh air — that’s not a small thing. It’s the foundation for everything else we build.
Part 2: Build Your Charlotte Mason Timetable
What Makes a Charlotte Mason Timetable Different
A Charlotte Mason timetable isn’t a rigid schedule. It’s a map of which subjects happen, how often, and for how long — arranged around your actual mornings, not an ideal family’s mornings.
This is where most Charlotte Mason daily schedules fall apart. They’re built around a ceiling — the best possible morning — instead of the floor, the kind of morning that actually shows up most days.
How We Build Your Timetable in the Workshop
Inside the workbook, you’ll use Charlotte Mason’s own guidance on lesson times and lengths by age, and we fill it in together. Which subjects. How long. How often. Arranged in a sequence that fits how your mornings actually flow.
Then comes one of my favorite pieces of the whole workshop: a color-coded sticky note for each child to help you visually manage multiple children at once. When you can move things around with your hands — see the pieces, shift them, hold them — the timetable stops being abstract and becomes something you can actually use.
📖 Related reading: How to Actually Homeschool Multiple Ages With a Proven Charlotte Mason Schedule
The Moment the Overwhelm Disappears
My favorite thing to watch in this part of the workshop is the moment a mom looks at her timetable and says, oh — I can actually do this. The overwhelm doesn’t disappear because the work got easier. It disappears because she can finally see it.
Part 3: Forecast Your Charlotte Mason Books
Why Most CM Plans Fall Apart by November
Here’s what happens without a book forecast: you start in September with a beautiful stack of books. You read faithfully. Life happens. October arrives. You open a book and realize you’re on page 40 of 280 — and you have no idea if you’re behind.
That low-grade anxiety isn’t a faith problem. It’s a math problem.
How to Calculate Your Weekly Page Targets
In the workbook, you’ll write down each book you plan to use, how much of it you want to cover, and how many weeks you have. I’ll help you use simple math so that you have one number per book. Written down. Done.
You will never open October wondering.
Part 4: Create Your Charlotte Mason Daily Schedule Checklist
What a Daily Checklist Actually Does
This is the piece that makes the whole Charlotte Mason schedule work on a Tuesday morning when it’s loud and you haven’t had your coffee yet.
Using your timetable and your book forecasts, you’ll fill in an editable daily checklist for each child — every subject, every day, laid out in order.
What Changes When Your Children Can Follow the Plan Themselves
My oldest started filling in her checklist directly from my forecast. She knew exactly what to do first — without asking me. The plan did that for her.
That’s what a daily checklist is for. Not to create a perfect school day. To remove the decision fatigue of a hard one. To give your children — and yourself — a reliable map for every morning, regardless of what else is happening around you.
📖 Related reading: New Hope for Your Charlotte Mason Planning Struggles
What You Leave With After Plan Your Year Live
Four things. Not ideas — actual documents.
- A highlighted calendar with the shape of your whole year visible at once
- A Charlotte Mason timetable built for your real mornings
- Weekly page targets for every book on your list
- A daily checklist your children can follow without asking what comes next
You won’t leave with homework. You’ll leave with a Charlotte Mason schedule that fits your family — ready to use Monday morning.
Is Plan Your Year Live Right for You?
This workshop is for the Charlotte Mason mom who loves the method and just needs help making it work in her actual home, with her actual children, in her actual season.
It’s not a philosophy course. We won’t be debating curriculum. We’re here to build — and by the time we’re done, your whole year will be visible on paper.
If any of these feel true, this workshop is for you:
- Your Charlotte Mason schedule looks good on Sunday and falls apart by Wednesday
- You feel behind even though you’re showing up every day
- You’ve never seen your whole year laid out on paper at once
- October keeps arriving before you feel ready
- You want a Charlotte Mason daily schedule your children can actually follow
Join Plan Your Year Live — June 22nd
Live registration closes June 19th at $37.
After that, the recording is available at $67 — but the live experience, where you build your Charlotte Mason schedule in real time with me and leave with a finished plan, closes on the 19th.
→ Reserve your live spot for $37
Live registration closes June 19th. Recording available after June 22nd at $67.
Not Ready for the Workshop Yet? Start Here.
If you’re not quite ready to join the workshop but want a first step, grab my free Charlotte Mason Planning Guide. It walks you through the foundation of building a Charlotte Mason schedule that actually fits your family — the same starting point I use with every mom I work with.
→ Download the Free CM Planning Guide
For the Charlotte Mason homeschool mom who’s ready to stop researching and start building.
