The Curriculums I that seemed to have worked best for us are: Pathway Readers - I'm their number on fan! http://www.homeschooldiscount.com/school_catalog/index.asp?FsCat=54&url=IND Spelling Power - I don't know what we would have done with spelling without this program - it saved us. http://www.castlemoyle.com/shopping/spellingpowermenu.htm GeeArt- WOW - my guy has become obsessive with art this year - he's only been doing Geeart for a few months and is almost done. http://www.geeguides.com/ Real Science 4 Kids - Detailed, in depth, and fun to do. http://www.arn.org/realscience/realscience.html Notgrass American History - very well organized for high schoolers http://www.notgrass.com/index.php Saxon Math and DIVE CD's- we love them Things I am going to try for next year are: Jump In Writing - http://www.highschoolscience.com/books/jumpin/ Mark Kistler's School of Imagination online drawing lessons - http://www.draw3d.com/schoolofimagination/school.html And I have decided to splurge on Rosetta Stone even though there are mixed reviews - my son wants Japanese and it appears to be the best investment for us. I'm still on the fence with History Channel Multimedia Classroom because it is kinda pricey- but agian, he wants to learn about Japan and China and there isn't a lot of stuff out there that is well organized, I'm too busy to study Japan and China and write my own like I normally do. http://www.history.com/classroom/mmc/
Well I really liked it and so did my daughter, and she hates everything. It is suppossed to be a complete History, English, and Bible curriculum, and it is. My daughter refused to read the books and we don't do Bible, so she didn't get the full effect, but I will probably use it agian for my son when he's ready. We used the American History. It comes in two volumes, early and later history and has study questions for each day. So it is a 5 day a week program and a quiz on Friday type of thing. There are also tests that cover multiple units. The units are a nice length, the introduction lays out exactly which books you need to read from, and gives choices for writing assignments. You can buy the books, and there are a lot of them, from them in a kit type thing and they really aren't that expensive. I have them all even though she wouldn't read them. They use a lot of original documents like speeches in the reading. All in all it is a pricey program, BUT I liked that it was organized. NO prep time at ALL. Even the reading comprehension questions have the answers, so it's not like you have to pour through the books to see if they are comprehending the issues. That's key for me! I'd give it a thumbs up for content. Hope that helps!
www.rfwp.com - great language arts materials by Michael Clay Thompson Sequential spelling Singapore Math Zome Geometry www.artofproblemsolving.com books and classes www.historysolutions.com CyberEd science
Yes, we are using it, LL7. It is good. I think they could have set it up much better, three hole punched in a 3 ring binder. So I switched around all the sheets to make it easier, by combining the two different sets of student pages. (imo (and others) It would have been much nicer had they just put all the pages in order with corresponding page numbers. Yes, this is a big deal when it comes to getting things done, and finding what's next to do.) OK...besides that, the readings are good, it compares alot with CLE Reading, if you've ever heard or read about that. The student reads the book and then answer questions, do worksheets and writing assignments. Some people use both CLE and LL together, going back and forth. LL uses longer books and CLE uses shorter though going deeper into it than LL. I have not decided if we are going to use LL 8. Not completely sure on their book choices for that one. We may instead use Literary Lessons for LotR. Also, we will continue to use CLE Reading, either way. It covers the same things as LL plus more. They all have literary analysis through reading, writing assignments, vocabulary and worksheets.
My absolute favorite curriculum we ever bought is: The Institute for Excellence in Writing www.writing-edu.com Teaching Writing Structure and Style and Student Writing Intensive Group B also Student Writing Intensive Continuation Course - B Awesome writing program! My reluctant writer loves the DVD format. And..he actually likes doing the assignments. gasp We also really like: from www.criticalthinking.com Word Roots Building Thinking Skills Mindbenders Dooriddles Easy Grammar Saxon Math Total Language Plus study guides Next year we are going to dive into KONOS unit studies
Natural Speller - I use it with the Spell Maker software from www.schoolexpress.com Latin's Not So Tough! We like the Key To.... Series, but are planning on switching to Teaching Textbooks And, of course, all the materials I create myself
We used this for a couple of years with our sons. They liked it! This is written by a homeschool mom, Karen Mohs, who answers e-mails very quickly and completely! She also has written a Greek program. My ds14 is doing that one now. Here's the website: www.greeknstuff.com
I really like Growing With Grammar. I like how simple it is. No frills. My kids enjoy it too. Quick and thorough. Of course, I am a huge Five in a Row fan. I have used this for 3 years. It is a really good fit for my family. My kids love the stories, and they love to really get into a subject. I think it has been very beneficial in the areas of reading comprehension and social studies. My son loves Reading Made Easy by Valerie Bendt. We use spellingtime for fun, along with Sequential Spelling This is a great thread!:wink:
