A book, The Well Trained Mind by Susan Wise Brauer and Jessie Wise, changed my view of what a homeschool would like in our home seemingly overnight. It gave me complete confidence that not only could I give my children a quality education, but that we could help to develop a life long love of learning. Before I felt like I had to compete with the public school system, but I have come to realize that you really can't compare the two. I try to keep things fun but still functional and so far my daughter has grown leaps and bounds since the beginning of the school year.
It wasn't easy and took a lot of long nights of prepping and planning to get to where I feel I have everything under control and organized. Now several months into the school year I think I have found a great balance for us. We are following the basic structure for a classical education, however, I add in literature based unit studies, science based unit studies, and history based unit studies whenever we delve more into a topic or book. My little monkeys really enjoy lapbooking and notebooking, so I plan to continue using those tools as a base for most of our unit studies.
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Our curriculum choices for the 2014-2015 school year (my daughter is technically pre-k but working at mostly Kindergarten and First Grade Level):
Math - Saxon K
Literature - FIAR and Unit Studies
Phonics - Ordinary Parents Guide to Teaching Reading and Explode The Code
Handwriting - Handwriting Without Tears
Science - Unit Studies on Animals and Insects, The Human Body, and Plants
Geography - Unit Studies and 50 States Study
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Math - Saxon K
Literature - FIAR and Unit Studies
Phonics - Ordinary Parents Guide to Teaching Reading and Explode The Code
Handwriting - Handwriting Without Tears
Science - Unit Studies on Animals and Insects, The Human Body, and Plants
Geography - Unit Studies and 50 States Study
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