A Mother's Heritage

Thank you for stopping by!  Here you will find a glimpse into our homeschooling life?  As you might imagine, no two days are the same, but here is a sample of some of what we are doing.  Here is a look at our  teaching curriculum…

Every homeschooling family should have Christian Liberty Nature Readers in their library!  This is what my girls are using for their science.

Once a week we do a Latin co-op with another family.  It is teaching us so much!  We watch the videos and do the lessons together…what a wonderful tool for even their English vocabulary!

 

For writing and grammar I am using a combination, but we are doing it as a group. The youngers will pick up what they can, and the olders will get more. But we are using this Grammar Made Easy as our guide for diagramming. Then there are other days where I just assign them copywork of scripture, etc. The other day we worked on poetry and all together made a poem. Today they are copying the hymn "When I survey the wondrous cross" which of course is written in poetry form.

History has become one of our favorite subjects!  Mystery of History is a chronological world history course.  We have had so much fun working our way through biblical and secular history at the same time.  It has given us such a wonderful worldview!  I can’t say enough about what a great time we have teaching this around here!

We always thought we would stick with Saxon, but Teaching Textbooks has changed our minds.  It is written for homeschooling and comes with video lectures.  The great thing is that it is completely interactive for the first several grades.  It truly does the teaching, correcting and record keeping for you!  We love it!

This is what J is doing for science this year…we have heard great things about Apologia.

We have a huge library of books in our home from which we pull from for reading. We have Abeka readers, Pathway Publisher readers, and loads and loads of Historical fiction (*GA Henty, etc), and just plain old good solid reading material for all ages.

And then we have alot of LIFE happening which has tons and tons of learning going on.  Watching butterflies hatch out of cocoons, raising bunnies, having “words of the day” by Daddy at the dinner table, watching historical movies, singing together and so on.

Put this all together and you have the makings of a homeschool family!

Thanks for stopping by.  Do you home educate?  What do you use?