I have always wanted to have a blog about our home education but didn't think anyone would read it. I now know that the good folks at the Well Trained Mind forums have threads for having a look at each other's blogs so I thought it would be fun to join in.

Our style is going in the direction of classical and we are implementing it more and more and as I am able to understand it. I have decided that Core 4 will be the last year that we use Sonlight and that we will switch to a completely classical mode after that, right around the time each child will approach the Logic stage.

And so here is an introduction to our school:

Thing 1 (age 11)

History Spine: Landmark Book of the American People
Reading: Lord of the Rings
Read-Aloud: We are finished until after Christmas Break.
Philosophy: Sophie's World
Logic: Fallacy Detective
Grammar: Rod & Staff 4
Math: Racing through Teaching Textbooks 3 in order to cover the basics missed in a few less than positive years of Math class.
Handwriting: Finishing up Handwriting without Tears (cursive)
Foreign Language: Greek

Thing 2 (age 9)

History Spine: A Child's History of the World
Read-Aloud: Robin Hood, The Canterbury Tales and Tales from King Arthur
Reader: He is going through the Harry Potter series
Logic: Fallacy Detective
Grammar: First Language Lessons 1
Math: Teaching Textbooks
Handwriting: Handwriting Without Tears with Thing 1
Foreign Language: Lively Book of Latin

Thing 3 (age 6)

History Spine: Living Long Ago and The Usborne Internet Linked Children's Encyclopedia
Read-Aloud: The Family Under the Bridge
Reader: Trying to get through beginning readers
Grammar: First Language Lessons 1
Math: Singapore and Miquon
Handwriting: Handwriting Without Tears

Thing 4 (age 3)

Whatever holds her attention!