Thanks Donna. I've spent a bit of time on the MFW website. While I like the elementary part I'm not sold about high school. I really want to follow the four-year cycle. Is the geography year important or can it be dropped easily. And then I'm not sure about repeating the same curriculum over and over. Are there booklists for different age/grade levels? I'll go check out the message boards!

Thanks for sharing! I'm currently looking at: History: TOG, MOH, MFW, Biblioplan (I really don't know!) Science: Apologia, God's Design (??) English: Rod and Staff Grammar, A Reason for Handwriting and A Reason for Spelling, writing (??) Latin: Latina Christiana (not sure about 4th grader) French: The Easy French Math: probably continue with Abeka Bible: just read it? other study guide? curriculum? Music: Piano Logic: Fallacy Detective

I'm a quiverfull mom of eight and am currently in the process of switching from the traditional homeschool curriculum we've been using to a more classical approach. Gosh, there is a lot of curricula on the market! I'd love to know what other QF families (or large families in general) are using. Thanks!

Thanks Heather! Illuminations looks interesting, it uses quite a bit of curricula I wasn't planning on, but maybe I need to do more research.

Thanks ladies! I'm going to try out the Go to Egypt trial starting next week (have to get books from the library etc.). The more I look at TOG the more I love it, but I do worry that I'll burn myself out.:001_smile: A few questions about MOH and Biblioplan: Is there a place to see MOH's book lists? Is Biblioplan just a book list or does it have worksheets and other activities? I do wonder about high school. If I buy TOG now I'll have it for the future and there don't seem to be many other curricula where all grades can be combined. If I buy TOG in December but don't start using it until January maybe the planning won't be too bad. Thinking, thinking...

Hi everyone, I'm brand new to the boards and classical ed., although we've been homeschooling for eight years now. For the past seven years we were part of a wonderful co-op, but after moving this summer we're on our own. So far we've been using Abeka but both the kids and I are hating it. It is so boring! I've been reading lots of books on homeschooling philosophies, especially classical ed. and I'm really drawn to it. This is the education I want my kids to have! Anyways...I love the idea of TOG; it looks like my dream history curriculum. The one major drawback I see is that it looks really teacher intensive. Is it? I've got four school age kids (grades 8, 4, 2, and 1). So that would be three different levels of TOG, right? I also have four younger kids (ages 4,3,2, and 13 months) who keep me busy and I'm pregnant. I don't mind spending an hour or so a week planning and I want to be involved with my kids, but there's only so much time I can spend. Would MOH be less teacher intensive? Is there another history curriculum that would work better for me? I really want something that is classical (4-year cycle), Christian, uses lots of living books, and can be used by all my kids. Thanks! Shoshana