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This is a collection of some of my Favorite Curriculum resources.  I have either used these personally or have researched them thoroughly.  I wholeheartedly recommend these.

 

 
Curriculum Authors (complete curriculum)

Well-Educated Heart / Libraries of Hope  An extensive library of classic history, literature, and art.  What a treasure of wisdom, beauty, and resources to educate the child’s heart, not just train the mind. Includes a preK-12 guide that can easily be adapted. Oh, why did I not find this earlier?

The Good and the Beautiful Easy to use emphasizing God, character, and wholesome literature.

The Family School  LDS Based* Teach all your kids together. Based on the Principle Approach

Mentoring Our Own  A beautiful blend of Charlotte Mason/TJed/and Principle Approach.

Kimber Curriculum LDS based*

The Four Year Plan LDS based* Teach all your kids together with a 4-year rotating plan.

Ambleside Online A complete, free K-12 Charlotte Mason based curriculum with some public domain texts. A great reading list.

An Old Fashioned Education A complete, free k-12 curriculum similar to Ambleside except using all public domain texts.

Robinson Curriculum An inexpensive, self-teaching, quality k-12 curriculum – as long as the child is developmentally ready.   A wonderful classic library.

Ron Paul Curriculum K-12 Liberty-minded. Designed to teach the kids to be independent learners. Video lessons and reading assignments. Lots of entrepreneurial focus.

Queen Homeschooling Supplies Charlotte Mason style curriculum titles.

*I have known of Non-LDS families using all of these “LDS” plans. They are very adaptable.

MY FAVORITE CURRICULUM TITLES (individual subjects)

Beautiful Italics Handwriting for Children

Bob Books

Boy Scouts and Cub Scouts programs

Frontier Girls Clubs  Scouting for Girls

Happy Phonics  A reading program taught through games and activities developed by a long-time homeschooling mom.

Heritage History  A history program using public domain texts.

Getty-Dubay Italics Handwriting Series

Janice VanCleave’s Science for Every Kid series Science experiments galore.

Khan Academy A fun interactive opportunity for kids to practice their math skills.  Includes thousands of videos on math, science, and humanities topics.

Life of Fred Math in story form and very funny.

Living Math Teach math through a holistic approach “closing the gap between math and history, science, literature, and humanity created by the isolated way we traditionally approach math education.”

The Logic of English A fabulous phonics/spelling program that teaches the Rules of English.  Once known, the phonograms and spelling rules explain 98% of English spelling.  How great is that?  Turns out there aren’t nearly as many exceptions as I thought.  There are two titles: Foundations for beginning readers and Essentials, for 8 years and up.  Both include phonemic awareness, phonics, spelling, handwriting, grammar, and composition while addressing auditory, visual, AND kinesthetic learners. An amazingly thorough program!!

Math U See With video lessons and fabulous manipulatives, this remains high on my favorites list.

The Power of an Hour A simple way to have a broad classical education for the whole family.

Nitty-Gritty Grammar A Not-So-Serious Guide to Clear Communication A fun reference book.

Real Science 4 Kids Teaches real scientific concepts in a way children can comprehend.

Right Start Math Multisensory approach emphasizing mathematical conceptional understanding.

Teaching Textbooks Designed specifically for homeschooling families. Computer-based lessons. Perfect for independent learners.

ST Math My new favorite.  Great for special needs or anyone who wants to visualize mathematical concepts.

The Writing Course Simple, Straight forward. I am quite impressed with these results.

Through the Ages  A master history book list by era, region, subject, and reading ability.

Visual Latin Fun and very affordable. Video lessons. 

Homeschool Shakespeare Edited plays, How to Teach, How to put on a production. YES!

 

RESOURCES

Mentoring Our Own  How-To Webinars, Teaching Resources, Wisdom, Encouragement, Mentoring

The Underwhelmed Mom The Why and How of teaching Self Learning: The Self-Propelled Advantage by Joanne Calderwood

Penny Gardner’s Charlotte Mason site  So many resources for anyone, not just Charlotte Mason proponents.

Heart of Wisdom How and Why of Hebraic-Bible based teaching.  A beautiful blend of the Principle Approach and Charlotte Mason using Unit Studies, Lapbooking, with a Hebraic-Biblical Base.  Also contains some good articles on Greek vs. Hebrew education.

Love to Learn Catalog, wonderful articles from an experienced homeschooling mother.

Rainbow Resource Catalog

Donna Young’s printables and resources.  Forms and work pages for everything.

The Home Scholar  Helping parents home school high school.

Titus 2 Encouraging, equipping, and exhorting families.

Rosegate Harbor Resources for Robinson curriculum, Living Books, LDS Education.

College Plus earn an accredited Bachelor’s Degree while still in High School.

 

HOMESCHOOLING SPECIAL NEEDS

S’cool Moves – Occupational therapy for home and school. Exercises help balance everyone, not just the” special needs” child

Dianne Craft – Dyslexia and other right/left brained learning helps.

Special Needs Homeschooling blog

Aspbergers Experts Two young men, on the spectrum explain to us neurotypical types how it really is.  Fabulous resources.

 

 

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Washington Homeschool Organization

 

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I have listed several resources and curriculum titles, but it is not the curriculum as much as the delivery. Whatever curriculum you choose (if any), remember you are not teaching a curriculum, you are teaching a child.  It is a tool: use what you want or what works and forget the rest.  Generally the simpler the better.