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WHat a find!!Found Mussy Spanish at a yard sale today for $5 SCORE! they are on VHS but I have 2 of those they can watch in on LOL. Manuals and even the original invoice haha.
Glad to find this thread. We started homeschooling this year. My kids are 9 and 11. We chose to do so for many reasons. One was class size. 25+ kids a class and the school had to use makeshift classrooms out of large storage closets. Second was the material. We are a God fearing family. And some of the stuff they were bringing home just didnt sit right with us. Some of the new teachings didnt sit right with us either. So we chose this. We started with a bunch of subjects at once kinda like a regular school day. But that proved impossible. So we narrowed it down. We do a couple weeks of just math and english for a couple hours a day. Then we do a couple weeks or science and reading and writing. And in between we have activity days, cooking days ect.. That has worked out much better. We also use the farm as part of learning. Caring for the animals and crops, caring for sick or injured animals ect.. We also do botany. We study about wild plants and their many uses. They enjoy that. Funny thing is they start school around 9 after the morning chores are done and all the animals have full bellies. They are done school by 12. And they are testing higher than we ever imagined. Of course my wife gets alot of the credit. Im just an ol farm boy and always will be. She has the college degree and all the smarts. lol But I help as much as I can. Mostly the outside farm stuff. We havent done a language yet. My kids do not have any interest in learning it. Where we live there isnt much diversity anywhere. So they arent exposed to very many cultures at all. That may change but I want them comfortable with what they are learning. Looking forward to seeing how you guys do it and make it work! I cant for the life of me remember what program we started with but it didnt work for us. So we mixed and matched resources. Math is done with Saxonmath books, english and writing is through Easy peasy all in one homeschool. We also use language arts through literacy program. So its kind of a buffet of different resources that fit us better.