Well, another school year is about to start around here. We are using our last remaining weeks to get a few things organized in our new school room (we just moved) and enjoying a few more weeks of summer. School will start on September 8. I like to start after Labor Day because, well, that's when I started school when I was a kid. We end up finishing about the same time as public school even though we start later, so it all works out fine. And my kids (10 & 14) are happy to put off starting school for as long as possible!
We have used lots of different curriculums in our homeschooling years (this year is our 9th!!! WOW!). Most have worked fairly well. It seems like we add new curriculum each year because we like to switch things up...we don't want to get in a rut! We are eclectic homeschoolers - a little of this and a little of that. We LOVE using unit studies, lapbooks and notebooks especially for science and history, but we have found a few we have liked for literature too.
What we really love is saving money while homeschooling, too! I have found that homeschooling does NOT have to expensive, we do NOT have to have the best looking curriculum or the newest books, and we CAN do it for less if I put a little time and work into looking for deals and great ideas for freebies. I will add many of my finds as I come across them to help other homeschoolers save money too.
My plan is to have everything we have used linked so you could buy it or download it if you would like to also use these curriculums/books (and other goodies). I also have a website that I am working on which will have lots of my personal downloads (schedules, printables for notebooks or coloring pages, foldables for lapbooks, etc.). I hope to have that all up and running this year sometime.
My next blog will have what we are using this year with my 2 girls who are about to be 5th and 9th graders. In future posts, I will let you know what all we have used in our homeschool, maybe some pictures of daily school work, as well as some of my favorite frugal living tips.
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