{Homeschooling} Our 2012-2013 Curriculum

I have been asked many times what we use for curriculum so I thought I would take a few minutes and share. This fall will be our second year of officially homeschooling, however, I was homeschooled from Kindergarten through High School. When my turn came to start thinking about school options for our children, my mom passed all her curriculum on to me so I had quite a variety of books. I had assumed that since I was homeschooled, figuring out a curriculum would be oh so easy. I was oh so wrong. lol I stressed, read, researched, stressed, read, asked questions and did I mention I stressed some more? lol Basically, I made everything a lot harder than it needed to be.

After a few weeks of stressing myself out over it all, I went to my husband and asked him to help me figure it out. We looked at what we already had and decided that while we wouldn’t use all of it, we knew we wanted to use the McGuffey readers. That helped eliminate several stacks of workbooks and other books that we knew we just wouldn’t use.

Once we eliminated some of the over-lapping curriculum I went in search of what we still needed to correspond with the McGuffey readers. Google is a wonderful tool! I discovered there was a whole series of workbooks that went along with McGuffey. I also learned that there was something called Ray’s Arithmetic and Harvey’s Grammar. I’ve used several sites to help us save money on the workbooks along with the textbooks needed. I am listing them altogether since all 3 kids will be working on the same thing, the only thing that will be different is the grade level of workbooks and my youngest won’t be doing *everything* in every subject as my older two. So without further ado, here are the resources we currently use.

2^nd Grade, 1^st Grade and Kindergarten Curriculum

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