Copywork is something that we didn’t do a lot of when I first started homeschooling my kids, but we do it a lot more now.  We were given a Lifetime Membership to Amy Blevins’ site, Homeschool Copywork, which we have been using throughout the past few weeks.

Homeschool Copywork

The Lifetime Membership gives users access to all of the files (current and future!) for as long as the site exists.  There is also a one year membership available, or a free membership (which is very limited).  The content available with the Lifetime Membership includes copywork and Charlotte Mason resources for students from Pre-K through High School.

The site divides the resources into Early Elementary, Upper Elementary, and Junior High – High School Copywork.  There is also a section of Bonus products, which includes a nice selection of both notebooking pages and coloring pages, which could be used for all ages.

Each file is available as a PDF download and is available instantly as soon as you log in.  I like the ease in which I’m able to browse the site and simply click to automatically download the resources I’m interested in.

Something that I enjoyed about the upper elementary copywork, which is what I was mostly using with my 5th grade daughter, is that cursive and print are used.  This gave me some flexibility as to how I wanted to assign the pages to my daughter.  We mainly use print around here, so that’s mostly what I used, but I selected a few things for her to do in cursive instead.

If you are familiar with Charlotte Mason type resources, you’ll appreciate the heavy selection of art, poetry, and classical music information and copywork.  For the artist studies, there are even full color prints of some of the artists’ pieces after the copywork portion of the downloadable file.

For example, in Vincent van Gogh Artist Study and Copywork Volume 4, the file is 44 pages long.  There is a short biography about Van Gogh with some suggested activities at the beginning and an image of the famous self portrait that he painted.

Following, there are 6 pages with a different one of his paintings on each of them with dotted line-style copywork in Ball and Stick print, then again in D’Nealian Manuscript, and then again in Traditional Cursive.  Then there are the same pictures with notebook lines instead.  That is, instead of the dotted lines for students to write on, the quotes used for copywork are simply typed on the page, and blank lines are provided.  This would be for older or more accomplished writers to use as they wouldn’t need the top line or dotted middle line for reference for their copywork.  These pages are done in Traditional Print and Traditional Cursive.  The Picture Study follows, with full page prints of each of the featured art pieces.

This is awesome for families doing an artist study with students of varying ages.  Depending on what style of writing they are familiar and comfortable with, you can choose which versions to print out for them.

I was able to use this study with my 5th grade daughter (she did Traditional Print notebook lines), my 3rd grader (also Traditional Print notebook lines), and my kindergartener (Ball and Stick print).  We were all able to look up more information about Vincent van Gogh together, study his work, and I could assign the corresponding copywork to the art.  My 3 year old even jumped in, because he thought it looked pretty cool, too!

We have used several of the resources on Homeschool Copywork.  Others we enjoyed were the Animal Alphabet Copywork Pages, Mozart Copywork Pages, and the Shark Notebooking Pages.  I look forward to using some of the Christmas resources this winter, and loved the look of the Valentine’s pages, too.  There are all kinds of goodies within this website!

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