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100 Top Picks For Homeschool Curriculum, published in 2005 and available in trade paperback and for Kindle, guides you through the process of choosing curriculum, offering "Top Picks" from each subject area, narrowing down to a manageable number of choices using questionnaires and charts. Parents no longer need to sort through the entire universe of Continue reading »
A Charlotte Mason Companion by Karen Andreola provides an introduction and overview to the education principles espoused by Charlotte Mason. Among the principles contained in this volume are: recognizing a "living book"; using narration; teaching reading, spelling, composition, and vocabulary; appreciating great art classical music, poetry, plays, and novels; keeping a nature notebook (for science); Continue reading »
A Charlotte Mason Education by Catherine Levison is a distillation of the Charlotte Mason educational method into weekly schedule and a by-grade curriculum that will allow parents to employ the Mason principles in a systematic way.
The Charlotte Mason Original Homeschooling Series is the complete works of the turn-of-the-century British educator, Charlotte Mason. The six-volume set includes over 2400 pages of the finest material ever written on education, child training and parenting. Recognized as the pioneer in home education and major school reforms, Charlotte Mason's practical methods are as revolutionary today Continue reading »
For too many years, the segment of homeschoolers that consider themselves "Christians" and "unschoolers" have been ignored. Many thought one couldn't be both a Christian and an unschooler. But Teri Brown with Elissa Wahl expose that not only to Christian Unschoolers exist, they are growing in numbers. Through Christian Unschooling: growing your children in the Continue reading »
Classical Conversations offers both community classes and curriculum resources for individual use. Foundations is the curriculum guide for K4 to 6th grade, Essentials for 3rd and up, and Challenge for 7th to 12th. The community classes meet throughout the US and Canada. From the website: "Our three curriculum programs support your home-centered education by providing Continue reading »
Educating the Whole-Hearted Child is a tremendous source of comfort for new and experienced homeschoolers. Guiding you with seasoned advice and encouragement, the Clarksons show you how to combine discipleship and education to create a God-designed program---the home-centered, whole-book approach to lessons. Using this revised and expanded edition with four main sections---home, learning, methods, and Continue reading »
Home Learning Year by Year provides a structured plan for homeschooling curricula from K through 12th grade. The book includes standards that students should meet at each level, additional readings, as well as assistance for parents to determine what is essential knowledge and what can be used for supplemental study or projects.
Learning Adventures is a home-based publishing company that provides unit study curriculum guides and accessories for homeschooling families. It is a multi-age unit study that is best utilized if a family has at least one child in grades 4-8. Features: 180 days of daily lesson plans in each volume A chronological history-based study for grades Continue reading »
Tapestry of Grace is a unit study style, classical, core curriculum for History, LA, Geography, Philosophy, Fine Arts, Bible/Church History, Government. It has both printed or digital options and covers material on a four-year cycle with four classical levels.
Teaching the Trivium by Harvey and Laurie Bluedorn is based on the classical method of homeschooling (taking advantage of the idea that there are three distinct learning stages in a child’s life) and that children should be taught a classical, Christian education, with its emphasis on teaching languages, logic, rhetoric, literature, and history. Included is Continue reading »
The Well-Trained Mind by Susan Wise Bauer is designed to give your child "an academically rigorous, comprehensive education from preschool through high school with the step-by-step instructions in The Well-Trained Mind, resulting in the ability to read, to think, to understand, to be well-rounded and curious about learning."
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