prairiewindmomma Posted December 23, 2014 Share Posted December 23, 2014 I am cleaning off my bookshelves over Christmas break and came across some stuff from my early days in homeschooling....Ruth Beechick's Language and Thinking for Young Children. Next to that was a stack of old Sonlight catalogs, my 2002 Sonlight K IG, and some Miquon math. I have a ton of Usborne books from that era, and printoffs from old yahoo groups. I have some Beautiful Feet and Greenleaf Press stuff from around then as well as LLATL and TOPS guides. I don't really hear about those things anymore. It was a wild flashback. I'm curious, if you've been homeschooling a while, what were you using about ten years ago? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EKS Posted December 23, 2014 Share Posted December 23, 2014 Saxon Math Spelling Workout Getty & Dubay's Italic Handwriting Young Scientists Club kits All of which were a mistake... I did so much better the second time around! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amira Posted December 23, 2014 Share Posted December 23, 2014 They're mostly long gone from many moves ago, but we were using Reading Reflex, Miquon, Singapore math, FLL, SOTW 1, HWT, Cuisenaire rods, lots of audiobooks, and lots of Legos. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sunflowerlady Posted December 23, 2014 Share Posted December 23, 2014 Alpha Phonics, Christian Liberty Press Math K, homemade handwriting worksheets Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AHASRADA Posted December 23, 2014 Share Posted December 23, 2014 This is fun! SOTW 1st Language Lessons Explode the Code LLATL Getty-Dubay Italic Handwriting Singapore Math I was pretty much following WTM recommendations, while also researching Charlotte Mason. Lucky me, I get to repeat those years, with the benefit of experience, with dd4. The only curriculum choice I plan to keep is ETC :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lispy Posted December 23, 2014 Share Posted December 23, 2014 Sing, Spell, Read & Write. Math U See and Saxon Shurley English Sonlight None of which Is still used here. That seems like an eternity ago. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Night Elf Posted December 23, 2014 Share Posted December 23, 2014 Oh my, I've used so much different stuff it's crazy. I think I was using Calvert School when my youngest kids were 6 and 8. I'd go between WTM suggestions, Calvert School, and unschooling. Of all the curriculum we've ever used, I'd have to say Hooked on Phonics for my youngest dd was the best money ever spent. She worked through that program within 4 or 5 months almost independently. She really wanted to learn to read. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Melissa B Posted December 23, 2014 Share Posted December 23, 2014 Saxon Math Singapore Math Hooked on Phonics Michael Clay Thompson English Simply Grammar Story of the World Ambleside Online I don't remember what I was using for science - but, I'm sure I didn't like it. * * * I still use Saxon math and SOTW (but as a read aloud now.) I dropped Simply Grammar, AO and MCT (other than the grammar and practice sections - which I still love.) I switched Singapore Math for Beast Academy. And put the Hooked on Phonics away for the grandchildren. I still haven't found an elementary science program that I really like - though I do use TOPS regularly (and kind of like it. :) ) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
prairiewindmomma Posted December 23, 2014 Author Share Posted December 23, 2014 Young Scientist Club Kits! I had totally forgotten about those--sure enough I had the handouts and nonconsumables for a few of those. My kids blew water into 2L pop bottles to compare lung capacities while I packed books....and then I just trashed the leftovers. I'm still paperbackswapping all of my light stuff....here's hoping some good PBS karma comes my way as my wishlist has about 300 items on it! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chava_Raizel Posted December 23, 2014 Share Posted December 23, 2014 Sonlight Getty & Dubay's Italic Handwriting Handwriting Without Tears Beechick's Language and Thinking for Young Children Story of the World Singapore Math Math U See Explode the Code Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Laura Corin Posted December 23, 2014 Share Posted December 23, 2014 Sonlight LA plus a lot of their reading books; Singapore maths; HWOT; SOTW; various Usborne books; Minimus. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JenneinCA Posted December 23, 2014 Share Posted December 23, 2014 Horizons math Usborne science and history books Five in a Row Handwriting without Tears Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hikin' Mama Posted December 24, 2014 Share Posted December 24, 2014 Here's what I can remember: Singapore Math Rod and Staff Grammar Story of the World Library books for science, history, and read alouds There was more, but I can't remember what it was. We were also involved in a co-op in which a variety of subjects were covered. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Farrar Posted December 24, 2014 Share Posted December 24, 2014 A decade ago I was still teaching in a small private school. I made all my own materials. We read a lot of historical fiction. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TrixieB Posted December 24, 2014 Share Posted December 24, 2014 I am cleaning off my bookshelves over Christmas break and came across some stuff from my early days in homeschooling....Ruth Beechick's Language and Thinking for Young Children. Next to that was a stack of old Sonlight catalogs, my 2002 Sonlight K IG, and some Miquon math. I have a ton of Usborne books from that era, and printoffs from old yahoo groups. I have some Beautiful Feet and Greenleaf Press stuff from around then as well as LLATL and TOPS guides. I don't really hear about those things anymore. It was a wild flashback. I'm curious, if you've been homeschooling a while, what were you using about ten years ago? I was using pretty much what you listed, plus Singapore math. Yes, we used 2002 Sonlight K though I no longer have the IG. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FO4UR Posted December 24, 2014 Share Posted December 24, 2014 10 yrs ago my oldest was not quite 2 We were just playing. I was reading TWTM already though, and I was gifted For the Children's Sake and Better Late Than Early. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Violet Crown Posted December 24, 2014 Share Posted December 24, 2014 Miquon Key To Old math competition materials LLATL (the old version with the awful comb binding) Artes Latinae Hillyer world history Rose, Where Did You Get That Red? Still using them, except the old math competition papers (thank you AoPS!). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mom2att Posted December 24, 2014 Share Posted December 24, 2014 10 years ago my college freshman was a 3rd grader. Where does time go??? I was using Singapore and Miquon, Writing Strands, Spelling Workout, and the Usborne World History book ala WTM for history. Dh was making up science lessons in astronomy for her. We started Latin that year with Latina Christiana. As I recall she was also memorizing the names of all of the countries on several continents for fun (weird kid) and really into Roald Dahl books. Sigh. Those were fun times. She was such an easy kid to teach, and I don't have any regrets with the curricula I used. A year or two after that her brother reached the age where we started some formal schooling. That's when I threw all of the above out the window and had to re-learn everything I thought I knew about homeschooling. He's just that kind of kid . . . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JustEm Posted December 24, 2014 Share Posted December 24, 2014 I like reading this thread but 10 years ago i was finishing up my first semester at college so I can't contribute! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BlsdMama Posted December 24, 2014 Share Posted December 24, 2014 I am cleaning off my bookshelves over Christmas break and came across some stuff from my early days in homeschooling....Ruth Beechick's Language and Thinking for Young Children. Next to that was a stack of old Sonlight catalogs, my 2002 Sonlight K IG, and some Miquon math. I have a ton of Usborne books from that era, and printoffs from old yahoo groups. I have some Beautiful Feet and Greenleaf Press stuff from around then as well as LLATL and TOPS guides. I don't really hear about those things anymore. It was a wild flashback. I'm curious, if you've been homeschooling a while, what were you using about ten years ago? I would have had an 8yo and almost 6yo. Saxon FIAR Rod & Staff 100 EZ Lessons I still use Rod & Staff English with some of my kiddos. ;) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Night Elf Posted December 24, 2014 Share Posted December 24, 2014 I like reading this thread but 10 years ago i was finishing up my first semester at college so I can't contribute! You young whippersnapper, you! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lllll Posted December 24, 2014 Share Posted December 24, 2014 .. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DawnM Posted December 24, 2014 Share Posted December 24, 2014 Sonlight LA and Science and History Abeka language Singapore Math Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KarenNC Posted December 24, 2014 Share Posted December 24, 2014 We were just starting (she was 4 and in a play-based half day preschool program 4 days a week), so the only things we were using at home were Explode the Code, leveled readers from the library, Dick and Jane, and Singapore Earlybird Math (we later switched to Saxon in 4th grade). We went through 3 phonics curricula that year trying to find what worked well for her. She desperately wanted to learn to read, but after a couple of lessons, she cried whenever I pulled out the PP or 100 Easy Lessons books. With ETC, she was bringing me the books asking to do them. We later changed math because of constant tears, stress, and her saying she felt stupid at math (so it wasn't because searching was more fun ;) ). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G5052 Posted December 25, 2014 Share Posted December 25, 2014 We used Sonlight with Rod and Staff phonics/reading and RightStart Math ten years ago. We used Sonlight until middle school. No regrets with the results of that. My youngest is using Sonlight's World History and World View core this year, and the older one is using their Psychology. The World View one is excellent, no regrets there. She's doing a local history/lit class that is well done but is a bit on the light side, so I'm using this as a supplement to that plus a philosophy credit. Obviously an academically-oriented kid (YMMV). The psychology isn't as much a win (sometimes the questions are a bit oddball, especially for an always-homeschooled kid that has been a bit sheltered), but we're on track to take the CLEP afterwards. Not sure if we'll use Sonlight Psychology for the younger one, and I do have my eye on an alternative. So this may be our last Sonlight year ever at home. Next year, homeschooling just one with two more years of high school. Planning on doing the local history/lit with several AP's, and then either that or Omnibus IV online for 12th grade. It feels strange to have the last years of homeschooling laid out! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThisIsTheDay Posted December 25, 2014 Share Posted December 25, 2014 Spell to Write and Read Already tried Sonlight, and then Core Knowledge. Began using Story of the World 12 years ago, so we were in the middle of Vol. 2 with the Activity Guide and all. Shurley Grammar Apologia's elementary science, probably Astronomy 10 years ago (which may have been the first year that book/series was released). Singapore. Saxon. Singapore. We went back and forth a couple of times. Learning the IEW method but never quite able to pull it off at home. Ten years later, I still can't really get it to fit consistently into our schedule with minimal mom-work, even though we've bought several of the products. I'm still a believer though! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AK_Mom4 Posted December 25, 2014 Share Posted December 25, 2014 Lifepacs. Gosh I am glad THAT phase is over! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Free Indeed Posted December 26, 2014 Share Posted December 26, 2014 Hmm... Mine were all little then- we used FIAR, Singapore math, apologia, SOTW, sonlight read alouds, and the only thing we would not do again if I had more to homeschool those ages again is Singapore. I loved it, but couldn't wrap my brain around it enough. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Susan in TN Posted December 26, 2014 Share Posted December 26, 2014 Only elementary grade materials then... Singapore math (still using) Miquon Rod & Staff English (still using) Latin Primer SOTW (using again) Spelling Workout Phonics Pathways (still using) J. Fulbright Astronomy (I think this was before apologia published it) (still use depending on year) Living Learning Books science Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Omma Posted December 26, 2014 Share Posted December 26, 2014 Sonlight for practically everything, plus Singapore Earlybird Math and Exploring the Code for learning to read. Also Leapfrog videos (Letter Factory and Talking Word Factory) MFW (once I realized that my dd needed more crafty projects than just the read alouds from Sonlight) WP Animal Worlds Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ElizabethB Posted December 26, 2014 Share Posted December 26, 2014 I was tutoring with phonics then. I have used phonics pathways for almost 20 years. But, I use it as a supplement now, I have moved on to the 1783 and 1908 Webster's Speller! I had spellers then but only learned how to use them to teach phonics in the last 8 years. I also use and have used as a supplement Hay and Wingo's Reading with Phonics from the 1950s. I used to use Alphaphonics as a supplement but found the word families problematic for a percentage of my remedial students, it is a fine for a beginning student, especially if you use it across instead of down if they start guessing from word pattern. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
prairiegirl Posted December 26, 2014 Share Posted December 26, 2014 My oldest was 5 back then so we used: FIAR RightStart math HWOT Explode the Code 100Easy Lessons to Teach your Child to Read (I think that is the correct title) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ScoutTN Posted December 26, 2014 Share Posted December 26, 2014 10 years ago I was pg with my first child, so I was mostly reading baby books, but I did already own and had read TWTM, so In my heart of hearts I knew where we were headed! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dmmetler Posted December 26, 2014 Share Posted December 26, 2014 Lego Primo and Duplo, lots of books, Kindermusik Village, Fisher Price, and Signing Time. Plus trying to do Spanish as well. DD was 1, so formal homeschooling was still in our future. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Liz CA Posted December 26, 2014 Share Posted December 26, 2014 Saxon Math Spelling Workout I used those which worked for us. We also had Rainbow Science and a grammar book I cannot remember now. We also did Lial's math later on. And all the classics we could get our hands on via library. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
La Condessa Posted December 27, 2014 Share Posted December 27, 2014 My high school textbooks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elisabet1 Posted December 27, 2014 Share Posted December 27, 2014 Mostly the same stuff. Someone from this board who lived near me took me under her wing and told me what she used and I used most of what she used. The only things that are different are related to the child being older. Like I was not using any algebra 10 years ago. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LaMere Academy Posted December 27, 2014 Share Posted December 27, 2014 Sonlight, probably Core 3 or 4. Horizons or Saxon for math, we switched to Saxon for the 54 level. Lots of nature studies and hikes, kept a nature journal. I was reading A Charlotte Mason Companion with some homeschool mom friends and learning about the method around that time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luckymama Posted December 27, 2014 Share Posted December 27, 2014 We weren't homeschooling then. I afterschooled math with whatever I could find! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blondeviolin Posted December 27, 2014 Share Posted December 27, 2014 Loving this thread! I can't contribute as I was just getting married ten years ago. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LinRTX Posted December 27, 2014 Share Posted December 27, 2014 With my 8yo, I'm using pretty much the same thing I used with my now-18yo's when they were 8yo, ten years ago. That's the beauty of hand-me-down curriculum. :) Ten years ago my oldest was in his first year of college. My second was a sophomore in high school, the third was 11 so 6th grade(?) and the baby was 4. We are still using most of the stuff I used for the oldest. I tweak it as much now as I did then. Linda Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
swellmomma Posted December 27, 2014 Share Posted December 27, 2014 10 years ago my oldest kids were in public school and I was wishing we could home school. I was making montessori materials at home, and using a reason for handwriting afterschool with them to improve their printing. And reading TWM for the first time wondering how on earth I was ever going make that sort of education happen for my kids when they were having so much trouble in ps and I was working full days and my then youngest was in fulltime daycare. It was easter of that year when I got a message about a new job opportunity that would allow me to work, bring my kids with me and homeschool the following fall...But that year was mostly about wishful thinking. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Suzanne in ABQ Posted December 27, 2014 Share Posted December 27, 2014 Here's what I can remember: Singapore Math Rod and Staff Grammar Story of the World Library books for science, history, and read alouds There was more, but I can't remember what it was. We were also involved in a co-op in which a variety of subjects were covered. We're twins! I was using all the same things, plus Handwriting Without Tears Phonics Pathways (for reading and then spelling) First Language Lessions Were you using any of these, Hikin' Mama? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
73349 Posted December 27, 2014 Share Posted December 27, 2014 I was teaching at a private school, using mostly materials from Holt's Elements of Language. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Murphy101 Posted December 28, 2014 Share Posted December 28, 2014 Primary and intermediate language lessons Modern curriculum press mathematics Booklists Faith and Freedom readers St Joseph catechisms Five in a Row ArtPacs art with a purpose Seton - various Draw write now ... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris in VA Posted December 28, 2014 Share Posted December 28, 2014 That was our first year of homeschooling--I had a K'er and a 9th grader. We used: K Saxon math Leading Little Ones to God some Montessori stuff Phonics Pathways some Reason for Handwriting and some HWT SOTW 1 (starting halfway thru the year) nature notebook using ideas from Cynthia Rushton and a bible curriculum developed by a friend who never officially published it--it was awesome. 9th Omnibus 1 Spielvogel West Civ Jacobs Alg Rod and Staff grammar Henle Latin 1 Apologia Bio (wouldn't use now) and various extra fiction books and theology books Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Himhimthem Posted December 30, 2014 Share Posted December 30, 2014 I'm new to the forums and don't get to check in often but this subject is so close to my heart as my kids(6 of them) are slowly flying the coop. Explode the Code Story of the World(I think) Miquon Math Saxon Math LLATL Ambleside Online all various and sundry encyclopedias I picked up along the way Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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