A Wonderful First Week
I have spent a significant amount of time and energy planning our homeschool experience. Having homeschooled in the past, I've been...
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Choosing Curriculum
I had a friend tell me recently that curriculum is not necessarily a set of homeschool books. It is whatever tools you put in your toolkit to guide your kids through meaningful learning experiences. That description reminded me that we are teaching all of the time (as all parents are), so doing so with specific intentions and resources (curriculum) is what we call homeschool!
That being said, it is probably the most asked question from prospective homeschool parents, "What curriculum do you use?" I have blogged about my journey (scroll all the way down on this page) in choosing our homeschool resources. How did I come to those choices? I did three basic things: I asked myself what mattered to me, what my priorities are, and what sort of lifestyle I wanted to create through homeschool. Then, I paid attention to my kid, spent time over a summer exploring local resources, "shopping" online and requesting demos to play with, and paying attention to when and how she got excited about learning. Lastly, I found a few parent vloggers and curriculum reviewers that I resonated with, wrote down their recommendations, and dug deeper. I have added those to the teacher/admin resources page under the topic "homeschool advice."
When we tried something we both loved, we stuck with it. When either of us didn't, we tossed it and tried the next thing on the list! To make your online "shopping" easier, at the bottom of this page, there is a curriculum resource library that I have curated. You can filter it based on approaches, subjects, etc.
Soaring Education Services - Open Sky Education
Soaring Education Services provides a simple, low-risk, affordable approach to Christian Education. Our expertise offers everything from funding recommendations to establishing a curriculum that meets your Christian education goals. We take the guesswork out of starting a school and let you focus on what you do best.
This is the school launching offering by Open Sky Education
Supercharged Science
The science curriculum you’ll find here is self-guiding, so your kids can do it on their own. Also, it’s very hands-on, so you’re kids won’t be reading boring lessons from a book – they’ll be doing real science, like real scientists do in the lab. I promise they will learn more science AND enjoy it more in 2 months that they will from a typical year of “traditional” science education.
Teaching Textbooks
A fully online K-12 math curriculum. Pros: very low cost. no book work. take anywhere (works great on a tablet). fun. low time commitment. automatically test/assess. Cons: students may not score well on some standardized tests because the method of teaching does not always prepare students for the way questions are asked on standardized tests. However, here is a great review from a mom whose student successfully used it and scored great on SAT/ACT. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E8nxEWz8T4E&authuser=0
Teachers Pay Teachers
TPT exists to unlock the wisdom of teachers everywhere and empower them to teach at their best. We’re the go-to platform for supporting educators with the resources they need to teach successfully in an ever-changing education landscape. Today, educators turn to TPT to find the world's largest catalog of educator-created learning content and tools for interactive digital instruction, through the TPT marketplace and Easel by TPT. More than 7 million educators — including 85% of PreK-12 U.S. teachers — use TPT to save time, engage students, and learn from each other.
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