OUR HOMESCHOOL CURRICULUM CHOICES 2014-2015

I’ve thought long and hard about what to use this year.  Since I started schooling multiple kids, it has just worked better for us to combine some of the more hands-on subjects: art, science, and history.  Last year, we tried having Noah do his own (more in-depth) history curriculum and it didn’t work as well as I’d have liked.  This year, I know we have to stay combined, but I also know he needs to be challenged.  For the past 6 years, we’ve used Story of the World for history and we have loved it.  Loved. It.  Although it has worked great for us, we’re going to try something new this year.  But we will still be listening to the Story of the World audio cd’s.

This year, I’ve decided to go with Tapestry of Grace curriculum to use as a spine for history.  I’ll be doing separate art, but I’ll be using ToG for their writing assignment ideas and their literature choices.  I love the fact that ToG is a curriculum you can use with K-12.  I love their literature choices, project ideas, and their writing assignments.  I hope we love this as much as we’ve loved what we’ve used in the past.  I chose this because I can use one curriculum and know that Noah will be challenged and the littler ones will be happy too.  We will be using Year 2, but only Units 1 and 2.  I like to split our year up into units and ToG simply covered too much information for me to do that many unit throughout the year.  We’ll be covering the fall of Rome through about the year 1775.  I’ll do a post later on our different history units we’ll be covering and what we’ll be reading with those units.

The following is what we’ll be using for curriculum this year.

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(sidenote: I always write “this is what we WILL be using” tentatively.  I am a firm believer in ditching what doesn’t work–even if it was expensive–even if YOU love it, but your kid hates it–even if your friend wrote it–even if it’s pretty.  As homeschoolers, we have this A M A Z I N G opportunity to search for exactly what works for our child–even if we have to create it ourselves. We hold the keys that our precious students need to learn.  Find the right key! Give that new fancy curriculum a fair shake, and after that fair shake, if your kid is still crying when it’s time for math it might be time to find something else.  And there is ALWAYS something else to try.)

I organized our curriculum list into “Combined Subjects” that we’ll do all together and then individual grade selections.

Our Homeschool Curriculum Choices for this year

• Discovering Great Artists
• The Children’s Book of Art
• Getting to Know the Great Artists series 
• Name that Style
• Master Kitz  (my kids LOVED these kits!)
• Deep Space Sparkle blog