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Low-Maintenance Curriculum for a High-Maintenance Family (2011 Curriculum Fair)

by Lora
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Written by contributor Lora Lynn Fanning of Vitafamiliae Ages of my children: 7, 7, 5, 4, 2, 1 Educational Philosophy Influences: Classical, Literature-based With six kids ages seven and under, it was important to me that the curriculum I chose did the heavy-lifting, and not the other way around. We’re mostly Classical style homeschoolers with [...]

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Interest-Driven Curricula and an Open Mind (2011 Curriculum Fair)

by Hillary
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Written by contributor Hillary Boucher of Infinitely Learning Children’s ages: 6, 3, and 10 months Educational Philosophy Influences: Unschooling, Enki, Eclectic Our children are quite young and so far interest-driven learning has been all we’ve needed. Philosophically, we are what is described as “unschooling.” I am not particularly attached to unschooling as a rule-set as [...]

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Relaxed Elementary Education (2011 Curriculum Fair)

by Renee
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Written by contributor Renee Tougas of FIMBY Ages of my children: 12, 10, and 8 Educational Philosophies I pull from: Leadership Education, Literature-Based, Charlotte Mason, Unschooling When Jamie first proposed this series I thought, “That will be easy to write. We don’t use much.” Then I saw all the questions from the introductory post and [...]

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Easy Grammar: Making Grammar Easy (2011 Curriculum Fair)

by Kris
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Written by contributor Kris of Weird, Unsocialized Homeschoolers Children’s ages: 15, 11, and 9 Educational Philosophy Influences: Classical, Charlotte Mason, Eclectic One of the biggest struggles that my family has had, curriculum-wise, is putting together a language arts program that works well for us. It’s also the area that contains the one piece of curriculum [...]

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Resources for Early Learning (2011 Curriculum Fair)

by Jamie
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Written by Jamie Martin, editor of Simple Homeschool and founder of Steady Mom Ages of my children: 7.5, 6.5, and 6 Educational Philosophies I Pull From: Waldorf, Leadership Education, Unschooling When I had two children, both still toddlers, I planned out their entire education for the next 15 years. I spent hours drawing charts, researching, [...]

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Don’t Know Much About History Resources (2011 Curriculum Fair)

by Amida
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Written by Simple Homeschool contributor Amida of Journey Into Unschooling Ages of my children: 12, 9, 4, and 5 months Educational Philosophies I Pull From: Unschooling, Eclectic History was never my strong point. I blame it on all the instructors who pretty much killed the subject for me, like elementary school teachers who had us [...]

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