What Stone and Stream Is

Stone and Stream is a secular, twelve-year classical curriculum for history, literature, science, the Bible, and the arts, built around living books rather than textbooks, in the Charlotte Mason tradition. It is scheduled term by term, week by week, across all twelve years: living books, nature study, picture and composer study, and (since the modern age produced an art form Mason never lived to see) a strand of cinema study.

Bible readings appear here as part of the Western canon — the literary, historical, and cultural inheritance a classical education draws on — not as devotional instruction; families are free to provide whatever religious formation aligns with their own convictions.

It does not cover mathematics or foreign languages, though the Guide recommends programs for both. Many of the scheduled books are free and in the public domain; others will need to be purchased or borrowed from a library. Everything here is free to use, designed to be printed and used, and shared in the hope that it serves families well.