This is 2018 and it is our second year of homeschooling with one of our four sons.
We began with a brand new History Curriculum. It is called The History of The World. The best way to describe it, is to say it is a broad painting of man from nomad through farmer and city dweller. It covers places far and wide from the fertile crescent through China and Greece through to the South Americas. Etc.. I think you get the picture.
Jet and I are both enjoying learning enormously. Did you spot the.... And I. This is one of the gems of homeschooling for us. We are kind of " in it together".
Although the history curriculum I'd American in origin we are using CAPS for pretty much everything else. The "dreaded" CAPS that sends everyone into a flurry.
There are many reasons we opted for using CAPS.
* it is accessible and it has both online and bookshop supporting material
* it is cheap
* it often spans local interest and places for example Geography
And while on Geography which I love, the history curriculum does include some ace identification but the Geography we are exploring has a deeper / wider reach
* it is the same body of knowledge available in other curriculi
* it is easy to addapt, work around, add too or subtract from.
One of the add one is our own book report on our own book choice as well as an introduction to Philosophy in the place of LO.
Our favourite thing about homeschooling continues to be pace.. We can keep going or stop as Jet needs to or as time gems us in. We can search up extra information on a section and we can ditch something that is weak or incomplete or we can add two themes together. I have done this quite a bit with English. If we meet an idea that is new and really interesting, we have the freedom to tunnel into it as long and deep as it takes us.
Jet gets to read a great deal in general, excluding his prescribed books linked to history. Our book project is Walk two Moons. What a read it is. I found some online help to explore the themes etc and we are about to dive in head first. A highly recommended read.
At the end of last year I really wrestled with our maths. We had done a year of Maths U see and Jet had surely mastered his maths. However, he is an ADHD boy and he is easily bored with continual repeatition.
And so my head told me the master approach works but my heart told me I was killing maths for this kid.
We switched!
Another beauty of homeschooling.
I am using Headstart maths and we are really enjoying it. The teachers book is full of good ideas and helpful explains toons
A very happy move.
