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To: latina4dubya

We use the K12 curriculum (www.k12.com)...it's not, strictly thinking, what I'd think of as classical education but it is based on a "core knowledge" philosophy and includes elements from THE WELL-TRAINED MIND. (Susan Wise Bauer wrote some of the history...) We love the curriculum. The children listen in on each other's history and the cross-related art lessons so my 5-year-old can go on at some length about Michelangelo, among other things :). What are you using for your lessons? I really regret that my older children were not exposed to history, art appreciation, etc., at young ages.

My oldest, a HS honor student, has commented several times that her younger siblings are being exposed to concepts at an early age that she didn't learn about until high school, unless she happened to read about it in books we gave her. (I consider her "afterschooled" in the sense of the materials we gave her outside school hours, grin.) As we became increasingly dissatisfied with her education, we "graduated" from public to private school with #2, then homeschooling with #3 and #4, and next year #2 will join us at home.

We are in So. CA...and you?

Best wishes --


56 posted on 05/18/2004 5:37:33 PM PDT by GOPrincess
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To: GOPrincess
We use the K12 curriculum

oh, yes... K12... Dr. William Bennett's curriculum... we used K12 for kindergarten... we had just "gotten" our five-year old through our county's FOS/ADOPT program, along with his six-month old brother... we had planned on the infant but not the five-year old... so we had thought we had a few years to get our "homeschool" together--then Jonathan came to us, and suddenly we had to get it all together before fall (or he'd have to go to public or private school)...

we thought using a complete curriculum would make a better case to our social/adoption worker to let us homeschool (my wording is awful, i know)... K12 was brand new that year... it's a wonderful curriculum (pretty extensive for kindergarten)... the only reason we didn't continue with it is that my favorite part of homeschooling is searching for and putting together resources... and we've settled on Classical Education... my friend uses K12 for her homeschool, and i find that we our often doing the same things for history...

i use The Well-Trained Mind as my guide... for history i am using Susan Wise Bauer's curriculum along with Veritas Press (Middle Ages, Reinassance and the Reformation)... our school consists of lots of history and literature... we use Saxon Math... i may purchase the K12 Science for 3rd Grade next year--that is one area i'm not enjoying putting together... we live in the central valley of California in a town named Tracy (near Stockton and Modesto)... we moved here from San Jose about five years ago...

best wishes to you, too!

96 posted on 05/20/2004 4:32:09 PM PDT by latina4dubya
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