Curriculums!

The math curriculum just arrived! I really enjoy the freedom we have in homeschooling! Although we may need to spend a bit more money than going to public school, but we have the chance to choose our curriculums for each of the subjects every year! To start off, we have our own agenda for Bible teaching, then last year we choose the history, reading and science materials from Sonlight.com, “Teaching writing” from The Institute for Excellence in Writing. And just last wk, we decided to use Miquon Math curriculum for now, and I got to choose some math manipulatives too. For French, we are still searching, testing materials in the library and so on…. Although the process of choosing is time consuming, however, to us it just seems better than spending 8000 for one kid to go to a private school and u have no saying in any areas—no choice in who to teach, what style of learning in diff. subjects, curriculums, pace of learning, schedule….etc.. In the beginning, we decided not to “school at home”, and Sonlight curriculum really have a flexibility there to fit in our schedule…and with this literature rich program, we can actually reuse most of the materials kids after kids…they love reading the books so much and Tiffany is already asking when she grows up, can she keep all the sonlight books herself…well, we will have to see….=)

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