What is your favorite online homeschool curriculum?
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Not online (actually intentionally offline), but Iām very interested in the curriculum as it focuses on students self directed learning.
https://www.robinsoncurriculum.com/rc/home/
Good book list here:
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Don't even bother trying to teach them, let them find what they like
They already get plenty of that. They also need to be able to do fractions and find the least common divisor using prime factorization.
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Depends on age. I like ABC mouse https://www.abcmouse.com/html5/appdload and I have heard good things about Acellus https://www.acellusacademy.com/
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I have kids of all ages, from baby to teenagers
Yes, we currently use Ron Paul, been using it for years, but it doesen't work for most of our kids. Particularly the math and science leaves too mucb lacking and puts too much responsibility on the kids. The material is good, but its *too* self directed. For math and science, its difficullt to find something that is both good, but isn't expecting the kids to have a full chemistry, electronics lab and workshop to themselves and isn't going to shove tranny culture down their throat with math word problems (like Khan). I'm wondering if anyone has found a good interactive online curriculum that isn't going to try to make our kids cut off their genitals, but also isn't going to preach to them about how they are wicked irrevocable sinners and there is no salvation in this life. Just teach my kid math please!
Yeah, I think you'll probably need to just customize. I grew up being homeschooled before the computer was really being used to full potential and ended up graduating with lots of online university classes under my belt.. I would do book coursework, various activities, a local church sports team, boy scouts, and then periodic homeschool club/org meetings for biology or history or science, stuff like that, for hands-on learning - specific classes held by the homeschooling organization. For my own kids, I'll do some online, and then plenty of hands on. Maybe it would be good to review specific YouTube videos to pick the one you like best, then quiz them on it, or have them tackle a real-life project that puts the knowledge in the video to the test. If you find anything else besides those I have shared, I'd love to hear about it.
You could also go the #unschooling route. Search that hashtag and you'll find some stuff. Also there's classical conversations if you're Christian, but dunno if it's online. https://classicalconversations.com/
We know all about classical conversations. Unfortunately, its a very niche click and if you aren't in their cult, you aren't going to get along well.
We're trying Classical Conversations this year, and I'm sure meeting with Gather Round and Good and the Beautiful. And then I'm giving my local librarians topics and they're helping me come up with additional books/projects. I'm meeting with the library here in town this week to come up with a monthly homeschool activity that is NOT STEAM focused, because most libraries in the system are hopping on that bandwagon and I'm over it.
It seems STEM programs for elementry is the new NASA. Its designed to get them to focus on meaningless trivia and dream of unrealistic goals while they are surrounded with no people that can provide useful direction. Sure there will be 1 or 2% that might end up in that career path, but any curriculum for children that can even attempt to scratch the depth of necessary skills to do anything meaningful has to be dumbed down to the average kid which even the average adult isn't qualified to do even the most basic task. The only positive outcome is parents bragging and exaggerating about their kids doing things they have no understanding of.
You may get along fine with classical conversations. Its very diverse. You may be fortunate and the mix of people in your area may turn out to be perfect. Unfortunately, in our area, homeschoolers generally are closely tied to their church and if you can't attend sunday service with them, you aren't going to get access to the social circle. We can't play along with the church scene because of our biblical beliefs.
I'm Catholic, and definitely the minority in our CC Community, but there is one other family who attends our parish in the group.
Next weekend, the Diocese of Superior is hosting its homeschool conference at St Joseph in Rice Lake, and I'm going for the day to make connections and see what others are doing.
Catholics are more accepted by protestants than we are. Honestly, my wife and I get along with catholics better and Catholic school may be our only remaining alternative to homeschool.
We're on the wait list for our Catholic School for the second year. It's great, but also a frustration. We're parishioners, bit there are a lot of non-parishioners sending their children to the school. And we didn't do pre-k, so that locked us out.