thescrappyhomeschooler Posted March 29, 2013 Share Posted March 29, 2013 What are you favorite homeschooling resources that are not necessarily of a religious bent? It can include curricula from religious people (Steve Demme, SWB, etc.), but the curriculum itself is not overtly religious in nature. Thanks! Mine so far are: MUS SOTW MCT Language Arts Artistic Pursuits Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wabi Sabi Posted March 29, 2013 Share Posted March 29, 2013 Writing With Ease Math Mammoth Evan Moor Daily Science Building Foundations of Scientific Understanding Story of the World First Language Lessons Explode the Code xtramath Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
catz Posted March 29, 2013 Share Posted March 29, 2013 Singapore Art of Problem Solving Science Fusion Hooked on Phonics Spelling Workout Handwriting without tears MCT SOTW Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Element Posted March 29, 2013 Share Posted March 29, 2013 Singapore Math The Nature Connection Workbook Evan-Moor Galore Park Getting Started with Latin Junior Great Books Discovery Streaming Spelling Power Writing With Ease Khan Academy CK-12 Horrible Histories & Basher books SOTW (of course :D) DK Science: Definitive Visual Guide Apps: Science 360 BrainPop Splash Math The Magic of Reality ETA: Rex Barks Grammar Land I can't pick a favorite! I love all of these. To be totally honest, my absolute top-tier secular favorite resources would be TWTM book (I have the 3d. ed.) and Pinterest. I feel like if I had those two things and a decent library, I could cobble together a great secular program. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tabrizia Posted March 29, 2013 Share Posted March 29, 2013 Singapore Math All About Reading/All About Spelling Life of Fred (a few mentions of God, but generally secular) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nukeswife Posted March 29, 2013 Share Posted March 29, 2013 Growing with Grammar isn't bad (depends on the kid) Saxon math (yes this is a love or hate curriculum) Teaching Textbooks Story of the World REAL Science Odyssey History Odyssey is great if you don't mind more of a unit study by place approach to a true chronological Meet the Masters Art All about Reading All About Spelling Institute for Excellence in writing (yes there is some religious content, but it's very easy to just skip over or sub something else in) Barton Reading and Spelling (I haven't used this long, but so far I'm in LOVE) Others that I know of but haven't used long or haven't used at all Trail Guide to World or US geography NOEO Science Oak Meadow McRuffy (the math is pretty good, I'm not a fan of the LA and I never used the Science for very long) LOF WWE and WWS FLL Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crimson Wife Posted March 29, 2013 Share Posted March 29, 2013 Math: MEP Reception Right Start B and the first part of C Singapore Beast Academy Murderous Maths Life of Fred (Fractions & up, don't care for the elementary books) LA: All About Spelling Sadlier-Oxford Vocabulary Workshop MCT Killgallon Evan-Moor Daily Paragraph Editing EPS The Paragraph Book series WWS NaNoWriMo workbooks History: SOTW K12 Human Odyssey Horrible Histories Science: Mr. Q. (neutral POV) Ellen McHenry (neutral except there are a handful of very subtle "intelligent design" references in Carbon Chemistry) Horrible Science Multiple Subjects: Critical Thinking Press Prufrock Press Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dbmamaz Posted March 29, 2013 Share Posted March 29, 2013 http://www.secularhomeschool.com/content/217-secular-homeschool-curriculum/ but i dont use that much curriculum. math i use singapore, LOF (not strictly secular), murderous maths, zaccaro, and things from scholastic history i've used the usborne encyclopedia, little history of the world, horrible histories, hakim's history of US, Zinn's people's history LA I've used Language Smarts from critical thinking co, MCT, Bravewriter, LOE, LLLotR science . ..well, thats been harder. RSO, Lab of Mr Q, Hakim's Story of Science, Horrible Science and other random books, a college bio text, LOF's physics super scratch programming adventure, scratch programming for teens Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jujsky Posted March 29, 2013 Share Posted March 29, 2013 Meet the Masters Hands On Equations Teaching Textbooks Sequential Spelling I'm not in love with the stuff I've used from Pandia Press this year, but History Odyssey and Science Odyssey are also secular in nature. Next year I'm going to try History At Our House I'm also looking at ClassiQuest as a possible future science curriculum Even though it's not specifically homeschool curriculum, we've had great success with Beth Olshansky's Picturing Writing and Image-Making Within the Writing Process materials. Rosetta Stone (we're using Russian) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
freeindeed Posted March 30, 2013 Share Posted March 30, 2013 Oak Meadow. I am a Christian, but I use it with dd12 and dd5. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CyndiLJ Posted March 30, 2013 Share Posted March 30, 2013 Language Arts: Steck-Vaughn Core Skills Mosdos Press Anthologies Growing with Grammar, Soaring with Spelling Write Shop (Some Christian content easily bypassed) History: Connect the Thoughts Science: Rainbow Science Nancy Larson Science Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Um_2_4 Posted March 30, 2013 Share Posted March 30, 2013 I have lots: aas, wwe, lots of those already mentioned, but I am surprised that SOTW is listed as I see it as defintly not secular. For history, well I haven't found one, which is to be expected I guess since different people will write what they want history to remember about them, kwim? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clarkd Posted March 30, 2013 Share Posted March 30, 2013 Salsa spanish, Math Mammoth, evan moor handwriting, Nancy Larson Science, TOPS science and others, 100 Easy lessons, How to Spell/How to Teach Spelling, WWE, Miquon Math, Go Phonics, All About Reading, Hooked on Phonics, Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JessieC Posted March 30, 2013 Share Posted March 30, 2013 Moving Beyond the Page Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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lillysmom216 Posted March 30, 2013 Share Posted March 30, 2013 Engineering is Elementary STEM Programs Joy Hakim A History of Us as well as her Science. Einstein's Who, What, When and Where BioZone Science. I love the app but it is upper middle- high school range Magic of Reality App All of the math listed above :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thescrappyhomeschooler Posted March 30, 2013 Author Share Posted March 30, 2013 I have lots: aas, wwe, lots of those already mentioned, but I am surprised that SOTW is listed as I see it as defintly not secular. For history, well I haven't found one, which is to be expected I guess since different people will write what they want history to remember about them, kwim? We're about halfway through SOTW 4, and have completed all the other volumes. I haven't seen anything overtly religious in it. She covers major events in world religions as historical events, which doesn't bother me, since religion has had a profound impact on history. But, that's why I included secular "friendly" in my post. SOTW is at the very least secular friendly. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thescrappyhomeschooler Posted March 30, 2013 Author Share Posted March 30, 2013 Double post. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thescrappyhomeschooler Posted March 30, 2013 Author Share Posted March 30, 2013 Kind of the same with MUS. Steve Demme is a very Christian man. However, there hasn't been anything but math in our Alpha, Beta, Gamma, or Delta books. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
freerange Posted March 30, 2013 Share Posted March 30, 2013 Galore Park: SYRWTL English & Skeleton French Elmwood Press maths, Kilgallon, MEP maths Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SunnyDays Posted March 30, 2013 Share Posted March 30, 2013 I don't think I've seen this one mentioned: Hake Grammar and Writing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aslana Posted March 30, 2013 Share Posted March 30, 2013 Oh this is all so overwhelming. :D For a fairly good 12th grader, what would you recommend for American Government/Economics and for British Literature? On hand, I have a teaching company course that covers Shakespeare (but I don't want my Brit Lit Shakespeare focused) and I have Elements of Literature (Holt)--both for Brit Lit. For American Government I have my college text (but nothing else, so I'm not sure how that would work), and John Stossel's economics DVD's workbooks. For completely secular that is something like Sonlight in nature (has the IG and SG plus books) and that isn't Oak Meadow (because you can't use their Brit Lit without signing up for their school and I don't want that), what would you recommend? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mandy in TN Posted March 30, 2013 Share Posted March 30, 2013 Oh this is all so overwhelming. :D For a fairly good 12th grader, what would you recommend for American Government/Economics and for British Literature For completely secular that is something like Sonlight in nature (has the IG and SG plus books) and that isn't Oak Meadow (because you can't use their Brit Lit without signing up for their school and I don't want that), what would you recommend? Great Source has an American Government and EMC Paradigm has a textbook based British Literature. ETA: I have not used these. We did use EMC Paradigm's World Literature and liked it. For Govt my oldest just did ABeka with a tutorial my second used a bunch of stuff. I know he used some Teaching Company lectures- something like American Political Thought. He used some other movies: Standard Deviants American Govt vol 1 and 2 and Not For Ourselves Alone. He started with Painless American Government and then read some more books. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aslana Posted March 30, 2013 Share Posted March 30, 2013 Great Source? I have never heard of them. I guess I'll go google. :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mandy in TN Posted March 30, 2013 Share Posted March 30, 2013 Great Source Science Daybook (for middle school) We are using grade 5 this year and it has been a hit. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mandy in TN Posted March 30, 2013 Share Posted March 30, 2013 Time4Learning Time4Writing Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lifesadream83 Posted March 30, 2013 Share Posted March 30, 2013 Science Saurus Moving Beyond the Page All About Spelling First Language Lessons Word Roots The Progressive Composition Lessons Story of the World Classical House of Learning Brain Pop & Jr. Discovery Education Streaming Elementary Spanish The Composer Study by Confessions of a homeschool mom (some of her other stuff is X based) I love SL reading lists (most of their stuff is not religious) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lewelma Posted March 31, 2013 Share Posted March 31, 2013 All the Cambridge International Exam's (CIE) textbooks for all subjects, all grades K-12. Go to the site and look at the resource lists http://www.cie.org.uk/ . The lists are HUGE. We are just starting to use them. You can also look at International Baccalaureate courses and texts for high school. Neither of these are written specifically for homeschoolers, but so far that has not mattered to us or to other I know who use the materials. here is the list for 10th grade subjects for CIE. (The primary school age list is harder to copy given its nature so you will just have to go to the site): Accounting Afrikaans - First Language Afrikaans - Second Language Agriculture Arabic - First Language Arabic - Foreign Language Arabic - Foreign Language (BES) Art and Design Art and Design (BES) Bangladesh Studies Biology Biology (BES) Business Studies Chemistry Chemistry (BES) Child Development Chinese - First Language Chinese - Second Language Chinese (Mandarin) - Foreign Language Chinese (Mandarin) - Foreign Language (BES) Computer Science Computer Studies Computer Studies (BES) Czech - First Language Design and Technology Development Studies Drama Drama (BES) Dutch - First Language Dutch - Foreign Language Economics Economics (BES) English - First Language English - First Language (BES) English - First Language (UK) English - Literature English - Literature (BES) English - Literature (UK) English - Second Language (oral endorsement) English - Second Language (BES) English - Second Language (count-in oral) Enterprise Environmental Management Food and Nutrition French - First Language French - Foreign Language French - Foreign Language (BES) French - Foreign Language (UK) Geography German - First Language German - Foreign Language German - Foreign Language (BES) German- Foreign Language (UK) Global Perspectives Global Perspectives (BES) Greek - Foreign Language Greek - Foreign Language (BES) Hindi as a Second Language History History - American (BES) History (BES) India Studies Indonesian - Foreign Language Information and Communication Technology IsiZulu as a Second Language Islamiyat Italian - Foreign Language Italian - Foreign Language (UK) Japanese - First Language Japanese - Foreign Language Kazakh as a Second Language Korean (First Language) Latin Malay - Foreign Language Mathematics Mathematics - Additional Mathematics - Additional (BES) International Mathematics Mathematics (BES) Mathematics (with coursework) Music Music (BES) Pakistan Studies Physical Education Physical Science Physics Physics (BES) Portuguese - First Language Portuguese - Foreign Language Religious Studies Russian - First Language Science - Combined Sciences - Co-ordinated (Double) Sciences - Co-ordinated (Double) (BES) Sociology Spanish - First Language Spanish - First Language (BES) Spanish - Foreign Language Spanish - Foreign Language (BES) Spanish - Foreign Language (UK) Spanish - Literature Thai - First Language Travel and Tourism Turkish - First Language Twenty-First Century Science Urdu as a Second Language World Literature Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dicentra Posted March 31, 2013 Share Posted March 31, 2013 For completely secular that is something like Sonlight in nature (has the IG and SG plus books) and that isn't Oak Meadow (because you can't use their Brit Lit without signing up for their school and I don't want that), what would you recommend? I think that's the holy grail of homeschooling for secular homeschoolers. :D I don't know if it exists. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
momma2three Posted March 31, 2013 Share Posted March 31, 2013 All the Cambridge International Exam's (CIE) textbooks for all subjects, all grades K-12. Go to the site and look at the resource lists http://www.cie.org.uk/ . The lists are HUGE. We are just starting to use them. You can also look at International Baccalaureate courses and texts for high school. Neither of these are written specifically for homeschoolers, but so far that has not mattered to us or to other I know who use the materials. Wow, I really like the looks of the elementary science textbook series that they use. I've never seen an elementary level science textbook series that I really like! Thanks for posting that. Great resource list. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clarkd Posted April 1, 2013 Share Posted April 1, 2013 I just ordered HO and Connect the Thoughts. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lexi Posted April 1, 2013 Share Posted April 1, 2013 Right Start All About Reading/Spelling Nancy Larson Science Story of the World Writing with Ease First Language Lessons Artistic Pursuits MEP Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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