Wow - looks like I have been AWOL on this blog!
We're in week six of AmblesideOnline.com
and really enjoying it.
I was so indecisive about which curriculum to use, always second-guessing myself. I love Lorraine Curry's book - Easy Homeschool Techniques, and had decided to do that for school. But it wasn't laid out clear enough for me (silly I know) and then found http://www.amblesideonline.com/. I really liked what I saw.
Then, I found Accelerated Achievement, or A Squared, and really liked that too! All 3 of these are somewhat similar, basing themselves on the Charlotte Mason method of schooling. Some based themselves on her method more than others.
I really hated going back & forth with my decisions. I didn't want to do just workbooks, I wanted the kids to enjoy school. I kept praying about what to do, which curriculum to do, etc.
God answered my prayers. He told me to put away all my different 'how to homeschool' books! So I did, and decided on Amblesideonline.com! I felt the weight of the world go off my shoulders!
We do approximately 70% of what they have listed each week - some of the books I choose not to use. And that's ok!
We do our Saxon Math, Apples Daily Phonics/Spelling (depends on the kid), A Beka Language (they are suffering in grammar so I threw these workbooks back in our program), and Latina Christiana. Somedays, when we get everything done, we have schooled for 4+ hours! Solid straight hours!
I don't know if I posted that Hunk #3 started attending Calvary Chapel Green Valley Christian Academy for 9th grade. Hunk #2 started there this year for his junior year. I can't imagine trying to do AmblesideOnline.com with Hunk #3 as well, along w/ Hunk #4 & Chicklet. It's even more intensive. I find myself spending more time with these 2, for school, than I have in the past 3 + years that we've been homeschooling. And that's a good thing. I enjoy it more, so do they.
One of the books we read from, from the AO website, is called Triumph & Trial: Stories from Church History by Richard Hannula. This is online and you can access it for free! That's one of the really cool things about AmbleSideonline.com - they have links to most of the reading books online, so you don't have to buy all of them. I have chosen to buy a few, and have been pleased with my purchases. I will try to blog on some of those in the next week or 2!
