[Tired of Taxes]

I've been homeschooling my children for five years now, but I'm always looking for new materials.

My question: Does anyone know of any good children's storybooks, chapter books, or novels geared specifically to homeschoolers? That is, instead of stories about characters who attend school, it'd be nice for my kids to read stories about children who are homeschooled. Thanks in advance.

[INhsmom]

Re books that feature homeschool kids, have you read Williwaw, by Tom Bodett (the leave the light on guy?)

We listened to it on tape, and thought it was great. My 10 yr old liked it, as well as my 14 yr old.

As far as curriculum, we use a little this, a little of that, but really enjoy the Christiana Latina from memoria press, Men of Rome series from Greenleaf press, and the Easy Grammar Systems, and Sonlight.

[ican'tbelieveit]

My favorite science site:

www.hometrainingtools.com

[samiam1972]

ping to self

[VeritatisSplendor]

another request for ping list

Mrs VS

[Domestic Church]

Did you know those guys on Mount Rushmore were all HSed at one point or another ;~)

[Diva Betsy Ross]

I wanted to share something with y'all.. I am in love. Yup. Head over heels. I found a book and My 7 year old and I are having a blast with it. No doubt many of you have already seen this series- but I just found it and have checked out the website and downloaded every thing I could from the site for school work tomorrow for my three and half year old reader and my 7 year old reluctant reader to all work on together..without further ado, my new love:

The Spiderwick Cronicles

[HungarianGypsy]

Ping

[John O]

Any resources you can recommend here?

BTW we need to talk about scaredy cat for Autumn.

[SuziQ]

We have our daughter registered with North Atlantic Regional High School, in Lewiston, Maine, for transcript credentialling and diploma purposes. We haven't had any trouble with them, and the best thing is that we can choose our own curriculum; they don't have any specific course requirements, as long as the student has the specified number of credits in the typical courses required by the State of Maine; English, History, Math, Science, etc. Check the school's website, HERE

If you're unclear about what your student will need in the way of credits for college, go online and check a few to get an idea from several schools. The State of Maine only requires 17 credits for completion of a diploma; most other states require more like 21 or 22. But if yourstudent takes any college courses while in high school, they are weighted more heavily, so the final credit count could be more like 26! The best thing about that is that not only do you get high school credit when you take those college courses, you have credits to transfer to a four year college, or into a 2 yr. Associates program just about anywhere.

[metmom]

We used Saxon Math for math and had great success with it. We started with Math 54. The earlier levels are too expensive so we just bought Abeka workbooks (without the over priced teachers manuals which really weren't needed for grades 1-3).

If anyone lives in an area where they have the possibility of participating in spelling bees that could get them to the National Spelling Bee; Scripts Howard has a website that runs only during the school year: /www.spellingbee.com/
There is a option to click on marked "Audio Paideia" where the word list that they use is read along with the definitions. You have to check the spelling yourself but it's a great study tool to help them prepare. If anyone wants more info on that, I would be glad to offer some advice. My oldest daughter went to the National Spelling Bee in 7th grade.

[lsucat]

bookmarking

[patriciamary]

Please put me on the list.This is great.I ,have a ten year old daughter that I homeschool.I do have books for first and second grades for each year complete.Any freeper is welcome to them.I'll be glad to send them to you.