The family behind Field & Fable
Why we began
My husband, Derek, and I have spent 18 years homeschooling our seven children. Through babies at the table, growing readers, and teenagers finding their own questions, we have always been searching for the right homeschool curriculum for a large Christian family.
We wanted something faithful to Christ, rich enough to hold a child’s attention, flexible enough for different ages, and practical enough for real family life. We found many good books and helpful ideas, but rarely everything we were looking for in one place.
Field & Fable grew from that search. I began writing the curriculum we wanted for our own children: generous, beautiful, rooted in wonder, and organized so a busy parent can gather the family and begin.
Why it looks like this.
A classical approach takes small children seriously. In practice that means real books rather than readers, a thing to look at closely every week, penmanship on lines, and going outside in the cold to see what is happening.
It also means short. Nothing in a unit here is meant to take an hour. A lesson that ends while a child still wants more is how attention gets built, and every page is written to be put down.
Written as they are taught.
Every unit is taught and refined before it goes anywhere else. The parts that do not hold get cut, while the questions that open up wonder are given room to grow at each grade level.
It also means they arrive slowly. I would rather send you one unit that works than a term of material I have not watched a child sit through.
Here it is.
All five days of Apples, yours to print. A copy is on its way to your inbox as well — check the spam folder if it isn’t there in a few minutes.
Start with Monday: cut an apple across the middle instead of down through the stem, and look for the star.