Last night, I met with 6 other homeschool moms in the Carroll area for a potluck dinner and to share resources, and it was awesome. Two and a half hours and two pages of notes later, I left with a huge list of curriculum and Websites to check out, which I can't wait to do. Here are a few of the ones that I thought were the most intriguing:
www.starfall.com: Phonics and learning to read
http://www.gwnews.com/: God's World News - magazines for kids
Graphic biographies: Biographies of historical figures written like comic books
http://www.artisticpursuits.com/: Art curriculum designed for homeschool or independent study
http://www.scriptureadventures.com/memory.html: 21-day bible verse memory challenge
http://www.learning-adventures.org/: World of Adventures unit study curriculum
I have no idea what we're going to do for curriculum next year, but I want to try to get away from worksheets...I feel like all we're doing right now is filling out worksheets, and I'm not sure how much Isaac's actually absorbing from them. The unit study curriculum sounds neat, because Isaac and Simon could both do it together, and it encompasses pretty much everything except math. And I do love our math book, which is a Teaching Textbook, so we could just keep using those.
It was exciting to actually talk to other people who homeschool. I was the newest to homeschooling - I think everyone else in the group had been doing it since day one - so I probably got more out of the meeting than they did. I'm hoping to convince them to meet more often than once a month, and maybe organize some kind of group teaching thing, since most of the moms have a bunch of kids around the same (elementary) age. I told John, all I want is a homeschooling friend that I can hang out with once in a while. Just one would be enough.
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