Homeschool Curriculum

[mes5464]

My wife is looking for more structure in our homeschooling. Can anyone recommend something for:

Math
Reading
History
Science

Money is tight so something inexpensive is best. I think she is looking for something like a workbook. I am seeking something from K-12.

[FoxMammaWisdom]

I've been happy with this series:

http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/learn-a ... 0769683706" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

I buy the used ones, and there is hardly any - if any writing in them, and you can get them for dirt cheap. Usually they just have a bent corner or two.

[JerL]

We had the books by American Education Publication called Comprehensive Curriculum of Basic Skills. They are available from pre-school to 5th grade. They are available at Sam's Club for less than $10 a book. I have been impressed so far. The books are very thick and try to make good use of each page.

[singyourwayhome]

What price range is "cheap"? I've also heard that you can buy things used on forums and ebay.

I'm barely starting (as in, yesterday) but have some recommendations that friends have given me:

for Science, Apologia

Several of my friends prefer Saxon math, which is about $40 per workbook.

A friend of mine has been homeschooling for 20 years and now has a store where she sells everything she approves of:
LoveToLearn.com The staff at the store are very friendly and patient, willing to answer any questions or concerns you have. You can call them, and yes, they ship.

[FoxMammaWisdom]

I've been happy with this series:

http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/learn-a ... 0769683706" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

I buy the used ones, and there is hardly any - if any writing in them, and you can get them for dirt cheap. Usually they just have a bent corner or two.

For me, paying $7.00 for a $250 curriculum was cheap!

[TZONE]

Google = free

Has lots of handouts these days that are good. Just have to find them :O

I don't even buy textbooks for my college classes anymore I can google everything.

[Looking Forward]

Math and Science from khanacademy.org for free, just be aware he teaches evolution and is pretty liberal in his thinking. However, as long as your wife corrects the errors you should be OK. We have done Apologia which is Christian based, Non LDS, so you really need to be vigilant on correcting doctrine. They are not cheap and if I had the money I would buy more of their books. You also have to buy their science kits separate (not cheap), but are essential if you want your child to have a good science experience. It really depends on what type of learner your children are.

For Reading and History READ READ READ :-B . Read the Classics as a family, then discuss them. (Example: read as a family "Swiss Family Robinson" then not only discuss the christian teachings, but other things that come to your mind. Then discuss the historical part, such as geography, time period for both the author and the Swiss family, anything else you can think of.)

Google is also a good resource and its free.

[Toto]

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[uglypitbull]

pay attention to what is happening in the homeschooling world...

“When the United States government says that homeschooling is a mutable choice — they are saying that it is a characteristic that a government can legitimately coerce you to change,” Farris explained. “In other words, you have no protected right to choose the education for your children. Our nation could remove your ability to homeschool and your choice would be mutable — since the government has the authority to force you to implement their wishes.”

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[Toto]

That’s because the government of the UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, in its current form, is a CORPORATION, registered in Delaware, accountable only to the banksters, not a People with a republican form of government as per the original Union of the united states of America.

Imagine my surprise when the usurper in chief, in the horse and pony show that was the state of the union address, announced the intent to teach the children to integrate into a disintegrating society at an even earlier age; beginning at the pre-school level.

Unless we repent of our political sins and form a new government, and soon, those terrorist home schoolers may soon be the targets of stinger missiles launched from drone aircraft operated by a generation of dumbed down computer comfortable kids from a remote console for a paycheck backed by derivatives of No Thing.

After all, educated children don’t make good slaves.

[gclayjr]

The fact that you are on this board, indicates that you have internet access. I'm sure that you can find useful information for teaching just about anthing here.

Regards,

George Clay

[bbrown]

For workbooks I like the Kumon Math ones. They have all kinds of levels and different subject matters (like one book for money, one for adding, etc --I liked that there was an entire book on each one).

I used some "code" workbooks for reading/writing. Like "get set for the code" or "get ready for the code". They worked okay.

We have an LDS-based disc called A2 that you can use for printing up your own math worksheets and copy work. Has other resources on it as well, but we've really only used it for the math worksheet generator.

We now have a copy-work program called "Start Write" that was worth the money if you have children that are learning to write/read. I like this one!

For Math theory I SO suggest "the life of fred" books. We only have the first one (second is in the mail), but they are HILLARIOUS, brief, would work great alongside workbooks or worksheets, and my 9 year old actually brings it to her bedroom at night to read for fun sometimes. We'll start doing one of the chapters and my kids will beg to do 2 or 3 or 4...

My kids have pretty much learned to read c/o starfall.com and reading scriptures. They love comics too (like peanuts, calvin, etc).

Because my time and energy is so limited, we also use an online curriculum (like a computer game, practically) that helps me round things out called Time4Learning. My older kids are a bit behind on it (but we started out that way, I want them to go through it all and not just skip to their grade level) but my younger kids are both a grade or even two ahead on them. We just tell them they have to do "X" number a day (or 2 LA, 2LA extensions, 2 math, 1 science for example) before they can do their freetime on the computer each day.

EnchantedLearning.com is a resource I like for science, some of it is free online but there is A LOT more if you pay the $15 (I think) per year for access.

A friend of mine just gave a glowing review/suggestion for the book "spelling power." She said it isn't full of busy-work, you work on the ones you get wrong, you don't move on till you get that one right, it comes with a disc to print off worksheets if you want them, and while it is expensive, it covers through high school. I might just order this one too.

CB

[mes5464]

Does anyone have any opinions about the A2 Homeschool curriculum? It seems basic and to the point to me.


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