Homeschooling on a strict budget?

[mommydama]

This was shared in the Orthodox classical homeschoolers yahoo group: http://oldfashionededucation.com/index.html

It looks like an excellent resource. Very organized and clear curriculum and even daily lesson plans. Almost all of it free and available online. Amazing. Not exactly classical, but it looks like a very literature based curriculum like Ambleside. The fact that a mom put this together and then shared it with the rest of us is so neat. The organization alone makes me really tempted to just use it next year. I'm already totally overwhelmed trying to figure out how to do kindergarten with Zoe and start Mari in the "meat" of a classical education next year. I got The Well Trained Mind from my mom for Christmas. I've only skimmed it before. And it is making me cringe at the enormity of picking and choosing my own curriculum and trying to budget for it. Ugh.

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[marliah.livejournal.com]

sonlight is awesome, I cant recommend them highly enough. They do seem pricey up front but its well worth it. I spent WAY more last year using a different curriculum (which was half the price up front) because I kept needing to add things or buy manipulatives. Sonlights curriculum incluces everything you need (except the pencils and maybe a couple things you have around the house for science expiriments) the best thing about it is it can be used for a wide age range most are for 4 years, so you could actually teach 2 (maybe all three not sure of the age differences in you girls) with just one set of books. I am using Core K with John right now (which will be reused with Dex in the future and I will only need to rebuy the handwriting book ($6) and the math book ($30)) :) Also I think I am going to spread cores out over 2 years since the kids have so much therapy during the week that we ussually only get 2-3 full days worth of schoolwork done.