I get ask all the time. What curriculum do you use? I wrote about it a long time ago in the post My Style of Homeschooling, but I thought I would update it in a new post. I am still very much an Eclectic....which means "a little bit of this and a little bit of that" I do attempt to make a year long plan every summer, but its only the 4th full week of school and I've already edited "the plan" 4x!
This year I am using From Adam to US as my spine for {almost everything}
This is a middle school level study on World History...Starting with Adam and Ending up in the Modern Times called "Computer Age" LOL
This spine has recommended literature that aligns with the time period the kids are studying! We have explored these two books so far this year!
Some of the books that are recommended this year have a Brave Writer Arrow Guide to accompany them, but not all of them! So I plan to use those when available, but when not available, I am pulling in.....
Writing Rhetoric is a collection of stories of men and woman from the Middle Age Time Period. The kids practice diagramming sentences and identifying parts of speech as well as learn to write a compare/contrast essay for each person. I have "scheduled" this to match what we study in History.
It takes about 2 weeks to cover one person.
Both Kids have had a Cursive Class and we use Draw and Write Through History to practice our skills!
I am using the Fallacy Detective and Philosophy for Kids to teach Logic and Reasoning Skills. It is SO much fun and talk about Big Juicy Conversations!!!
So I'll come back another day and talk about Math and Science and our Beautiful Things Loop!
