What curriculum or resources have your kids loved?

[Entropymama]

My kids attend a weekly co-op that covers science, history and art. We'll have six weeks after the co-op ends before the end of the school year to focus on language arts and math, and whatever else sounds fun. 

 

If you had six weeks to do anything, what would you do? What are your favorite resources or unit studies? What did you read that your kids actually asked for every day? 

 

We need something exciting.

[HomeAgain]

My oldest enjoyed MBTP unit studies. You can pick one that your kids would enjoy and not buy the full package.

[Entropymama]

What is MBTP?  :laugh:

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[Syllieann]

My oldest also loves mbtp lit studies. It is moving beyond the page.

[JaneEyre]

The ones my kids have gotten excited over are Konos and CAP Writing and Rheteric.

[Eagle]

For six weeks they could learn programming at code.org

 

Also check out diy.org for fun projects kids can do to earn virtual badges. They don't have to sign up for the courses, they can just work on skills in which they are interested (for free).

[Aurelia]

Harry Potter. You can do either the summer correspondence school, or Build Your Library has unit studies for the first 3 books.

 

Loads of art. It tends to get pushed to the side during "regular" weeks. We usually listen to an audio book or classical music while working.

 

Creative Writing. We use Writing Magic for ideas, and a little bit of Pizza, Pigs and Poetry for variety.

[Chris in VA]

IDK how old your kids are--but we liked Home Science Adventures microscope kit.

It's for littles, though.

 

Could you pull out some activities from SOTW that you couldn't get to before? Or go deeper in a narrow area?

[AdventuresinHomeschooling]

My kids have loved the Narnia series and they are loving the Little House series now. They also love the Magic School Bus science kits and science shows like Wild Kratts, MSB, and Bill Nye. I'd throw in some field trips and nature hikes too.

[Jackie]

My daughter loved Ellen McHenry's The Elements, and six weeks is about the perfect amount of time for it.

[sweetpea3829]

Hmm...I'm not sure this would necessarily be relevant to a co-op but my kids have been in love with Prodigy Math for the past few months.  They want to play every single day and frequently talk outside of screen time about their various quests and what characters are doing what and their pets, etc.  

 

What you could do is have each parent create a class...sign up their own kid under his/her class.  But then one of you can create a temporary class and reassign everybody into it.  Set up tournaments and battles, etc.  

 

It is free, though you can purchase a premium membership for each individual student which provides that player with more in-game options (but nothing that really alters the game itself...stuff like more options in wearing costumes, ability to capture different pets, access to a special world, etc).  

 

If you have a large enough group interested, you can probably negotiate a group buy.  

 

Even if you don't use it for your co-op, if you aren't already using it with your kiddos...definitely check it out.  It's really an awesome program.  I have been using it to set review assignments for my kids (which means they are getting specific problems that I want them to get during their battles....instead of problems the game assigns based on their grade level).  

 

You can click the referral link in my siggie to sign up and if you have any questions, please ask away!   

[73349]

We liked The Private Eye. I might also do some geography, if they haven't had that lately.

[Peaceful Isle]

We are pretty plain in our work around here, lol

 

My kids are loving me reading the Narnia series to them now, but I'm sure everyone else has done that too, so nothing new there.

 

My kids really enjoy when we take days off to go to sky zone, the beach, a zoo, a movie, or what have you.

They also really love their outsourced lessons.

[Garga]

My kids mostly love field trips, including museums.  They love museums and old buildings that allow you to explore them (our state capitol lets you wander around and they love that--lots of architectural stuff to look at that they enjoy).  They enjoy read-alouds.  I'm not sure there's ever been a curriculum they've loved. There are some they don't mind, but not any they've loved. 

 

They enjoyed watching Bill Nye The Science Guy episodes, and they don't mind when we watch some of the PBS houses--1900 House, Frontier House, 1940's House, etc.

 

 

[Chris in VA]

Oo--wanted to add

We did an Africa study on Fridays in 2nd or 4th grade--I can't remember which at the moment. We made a huge map on the wall and did art and geog related to certain areas of Africa.

 

Maybe you could pick a few countries to explore and do some cooking, art, and online explorations of famous places (for instance, you can tour the Ajunta Caves). Maybe the countries of your family origin? You could go on Ancestry and join for a trial and do some family history--perhaps interviewing family members, getting and making family recipes, looking at pictures, etc.

[katilac]

What ages? 

 

It might be a good time to tackle some projects from the Story of the World Activity guides, or other hands-on history. This alone could occupy six weeks! 

 

If they like Percy Jackson or such, a comparison to the original myths would make for a fun read. 

 

Field trips to the zoo, museum, aquarium. 

 

A daily walk. 

 

Nature study.