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.
The Good and the Beautiful
Our free, academically sound, full-year language arts courses downloads are worth well over $100. Why are they free? Our goal is to bring goodness and beauty into as many homes as possible! We price all of our curriculum at incredibly low prices so that more families can afford top-quality homeschooling. The value of our curriculum is not reflected in the price, rather the price is a reflection of our values and purpose. - This faith based curriculum is written by a mormon group. Families I know that use it highly recommend it even though they are not mormon. They feel it is easy to weed out things that may be mormon doctrine that they want to clarify with their own belief systems for their children.
The Math Map
The Math MapTM is a whole-family math curriculum designed from a Christ-centered worldview and in the classical tradition. The Math Map demonstrates how topics can be understood through six different dimensions and across thirteen different domains, and the format of the curriculum offers a hospitable invitation to the math conversation.
Williamsburg Learning
Curriculum and/or Online School; Offering Live & Self-paced: We’re on a mission to help thousands of students, parents, and educators live meaningful lives as principled leaders. Through our inspiring online curriculum, world-class mentors, outdoor adventure trips, and partnerships with schools and districts, we’re building a new model of education that’s flexible, personal, empowering, and safe.
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