So much of what I do is pieced together. I would love to be able to say that we've used such-n-such curriculum for so many years. I'd love the safe feeling of having one curriculum to fulfill all our needs; one program to follow year after year-insuring no learning gaps.
I'd love to be that together. Okay, I'd love to seem that together. But I'm not. {obviously}
What I am, it seems, is eclectic. And meandering.
And rambling.
I was contemplating the other day on how my homeschool life seems to be one of making homeschool soup. We use a bit of this, a bit of that, the recipe this year might taste great, but next year I will change it up a bit.
We just started using Writing With Ease by Susan Wise Bauer for writing with the 3 Littles and for Josie. This is week 2 and I'm loving it, still. That 's a good sign, right?
I love the philosophy behind her method, I love that she is a college writing professor, beside homeschool mom- and that she obviously knows what she is writing about. I love that the directions are in the front of the book, and I can tear out worksheets at the back. -remember my worksheet lust?
A review will be forthcoming, after I've used it a few weeks, promise. :)
Here are a few other stand-outs in our years of making homeschool soup:
- Five in a Row. -gentle. If you are starting out with littles, I encourage you- do this, a smidgen of Math and that is all!
- Headsprout phonics -online! Because I am too tired/bored to teach phonics. again. -and my boys won't sit still.
- Story of the World. I keep coming back to this. The activity book has worksheets! {lust}
- Growing with Grammar - I was a diagramming fool in Jr. High. Diagramming makes me happy and squishy inside. -nerd much??
- Math U See. the lesson each week is on video. Each week is predictable, we do a page a day and then a test. :)
- Sonlight. -this has made homeschooling my elders much simpler. I love the books. The lack of worksheets brings me seriously down, tho. -I tweak, I stir, it comes out good...