A special note to those struggling in the wake of Hurricane Helene: AO's Helping Hand Emergency Learning Plan (AO-HELP) is a free, complete, user-friendly curriculum plan for homeschooling families who need support, encouragement and alternatives to the curriculum they've lost in a disaster, and also for churches and other groups needing to set up temporary schools. View it here.

Welcome to AmblesideOnline! We hope this website will meet your needs, for the children's sake. To learn more about the work of AO, how it started, how it's going, and the people and the vision behind it, we invite you to read our book: Six Voices, One Story: The Heart of AmblesideOnline, available from amazon.com in Paperback, ($amzn) Hardcover, ($amzn) or Kindle (K)

AmblesideOnline is a free homeschool curriculum that uses Charlotte Mason's classically-based principles to prepare children for a life of rich relationships with everything around them: God, humanity, and the natural world.

AO's detailed schedules, time-tested methods, and extensive teacher resources allow parents to focus effectively on the unique needs of each child.

AmblesideOnline hosts a large collection of original Charlotte Mason materials, which have been digitized by our volunteers. In addition, our community offers a wide variety of resources for homeschooling parents and Charlotte Mason educators: a support forum, an archive of wisdom from experienced Charlotte Mason educators, as well as original and current books and articles about Charlotte Mason's living ideas.