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By: melissa

melissa — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 05:52:42 +0000

Hi, i’ve been homeschooling for the past 7 years- two sons, 12 and 8 and recently, two daughters adopted from Ethiopia- both about 16 months!
We have used Oak Meadow the whole time and really love it. My older son has added EPGY, and both have used Rosetta Stone.

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By: Emily

Emily — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 03:11:37 +0000

We are new to homeschooling, but have landed on Sonlight. So happy to find it. We use Apologia science. Right now we’re doing Botany and General Science. We are using Horizon and Teaching Textbooks for Math. Artistic Pursuits is what we are using for Art. It’s a great combination of Art History and Art Technique, but does not give cookie cutter type art projects. Leaves so much room for each child’s creativity.

By: Carissa

Carissa — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 02:27:27 +0000

This is our first year to homeschool – oldest is Kindergarten age. We use:

Math: Christian Light Education (LOVE IT! Structured like Saxon, but with Christian references for half the price!)

Reading: Ordinary Parent’s Guide to Teaching Reading (It’s works!)
Handwriting: StartWrite

Science: Christian Light Education

Bible: Little Hands to Heaven (ages 2-5, so oldest reads bible story and questions to 3 y/o)

Social Studies: My State History Funbook (cut and paste, but hey – he’s learning a lot of fun facts about our state) http://www.statehistory.net/

And for our preschooler, the Rod and Staff preschool set. She feels so proud to do her own “school”.

Love your site, Mary!

By: PollyS

PollyS — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 18:18:35 +0000

We use Abeka exclusively except for Greek N Stuff for Greek lessons. If I were to pick and choose, I know myself, I’d leave a hole somewhere. So it has helped having everything from one place. And since Abeka is so advanced and my son is so young (he’s 7, he’s on track to finish 3rd grade in December or so) I just back off when he’s had too much. So far it works for us. We’ll be gearing up full force come Sept 1. But for now, we’re still enjoying the relaxed days of summer here in Northern Nevada and having an equally relaxed home school schedule.

By: Kendra

Kendra — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 23:55:00 +0000

Mom of eight here… couldn’t do upper math without Teaching Textbooks, and for the reasons you mention loving Rosetta Stone!

Can’t wait to read your new book, although I was encouraged to read above that you are spending between $800-900/month. That’s where we are right now, but I always have this nagging thought that I could be doing more.

I know my kids would love it if we’d get a little more creative with snacks, so I’m looking forward to seeing what you do. That big bag of pretzels from Costco is well-loved but a little boring…

~Kendra

By: Erin

Erin — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 20:23:51 +0000

The Phonics Handbook (Jolly Phonics)–A fun way to introduce sounds and their spellings with stories and hand gestures. I started doing about 5 minutes a day of “reading lessons” just after my son turned 3 (including phonemic awareness games such as those described in the book Why Our Children Can’t Read and What We Can Do About It) and he could read CVC words like “pin” and “feet” at age 3 1/2. I just skipped all the writing activities because he didn’t have the fine motor skills for them.

Saxon Math K–the only kindergarten math program I found that didn’t have a workbook (even filling in the calendar in the “math meeting book” was taxing for my son)

Singapore Primary Mathematics–We just started this, but I like the problem-solving emphasis.

Sonlight core curriculum–We love doing the read-alouds together.

By: Anne

Anne — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 03:25:24 +0000

Hi!

We use “My Father’s World”, plus Math-U-See, Easy Grammar, and Explode the Code. We’ll be using Auralog’s “Tell Me More” Spanish Homeschool Edition for foreign language. We have a 9yod, 6yod and 4yod (plus an 17yod who’s only got a couple of classes to complete for senior year, so will be graduating early).

Also, this year we are organizing ourselves with Sue Patrick’s Workbox System. We’re excited to start our new school year soon!