Comments on: Curriculum

By: Angela

Angela — Sat, 09 Jul 2011 02:29:39 +0000

Kristina,
I’m happy that I’ve been able to help you. The WTM book is great, I read it every year. We don’t do everything it says to a tee, but it’s been the most important influence in our homeschooling experience. The forums are even more helpful!

By: Kristina Brooke

Kristina Brooke — Mon, 04 Jul 2011 02:42:48 +0000

Thank you so much for sharing your journey! Your posts and curriculum enabled me to create my own and to figure out what method we would like to follow. I went out a read The Well Trained Mind right after I found your blog!

Thank you again!

By: Angela

Angela — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 05:03:03 +0000

Megan,
So cool, we must have similar tastes! Curriculum picking is great fun for me. I try to pick ones that are fun yet very effective.

By: Megan W

Megan W — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 00:58:20 +0000

I am about a year behind you, and since for the subjects that I have already researched I picked the EXACT same curriculums, I have decided I might just save myself some time and copy you on the rest as our tastes are obviously similar! Thanks so much for sharing!

By: Angela

Angela — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 01:29:37 +0000

We try to do 2-3 of the important subjects (3 R’s) about 20 minutes a day. Science or history we cover 1-2x a week. I try to keep our lessons under 1.5 hours each day, and especially try to keep the sit-down study/learn ones an hour or less.

I’m still new at all this and still figuring out what might work though! This is only our first week doing kindergarten. I already think I’m going to just focus on one math curriculum now, 3 is too much, lol!

As for RightStart vs Math-U-See… RightStart is so much more fun than MUS. I really think RightStart is the one for our particular family, I only have one child right now, and am willing to put forth the time and effort for a creative program that covers many concepts. Plus, I think out of all the math programs I looked into (MUS, Singapore, RS, Miquon, MEP), RightStart will help her think mathematically the best. MUS is popular, and she learned alot this spring/summer that we used it, but I guess neither of us could stand it anymore. Singapore is also great, but harder to teach than RightStart. I’m hoping to keep the Singapore workbooks around to do a few pages a week for practice on any related topics, and to use our MUS Primer/Alpha DVDs for another way to think of things when we get to new topics.

By: Andrea

Andrea — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 14:59:01 +0000

Hi! I just wanted to write and say how much I enjoyed reading through your curriculum plans. They are so well thought out and detailed. I am starting Kindergarten with my son this year and I have very similar plans to yours. I am mixing in Sonlight P 4/5, but I plan to follow the “classical” style as well. I haven’t picked out a math program yet, so I was very interested in your comparison of Rightstart and Math U See as those are the 2 I am trying to choose between. I am going to continue using Singapore Math as a supplement with whatever I choose. I also have looked at All about spelling – it looks so great! Thanks so much, I really enjoyed your blog! Andrea