Homeschooling on a strict budget?
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mommydamaThis 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.
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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Date: 2007-01-04 06:54 pm (UTC)I have What your First Grader Needs to know, but had been holding off on it since I really want to do a more classical approach to history and language arts. I need to find a copy of the Story of the world to see if it is what I want.
I'm really missing a good homeschool group. I just found it impossible to go to their stuff. It always conflicted with preschool and gymnastics! Arg! Maybe next year I'll be able to do without preschool. And the Mari and Zoe will both be too old for daytime dance or gymnastics. It will all be in the evening and on weekends. I don't know about preschool though. That time with Mari alone has been wonderful. And I think it has been REALLY good for Luci and even better for Zoe. I've seen her come out of her shell more than ever before. And the break from Luci intensity has been good for me too. I was sort of looking forward to it again next year. She has matured so much in the last few months, perhaps I'll be ready to take it on again "full time" next year. who knows.