Re: All-in-One Homeschool packages -- share what you've used
My Father's Word - Exploring Countries and Cultures through Senior year
We have used My Father's World from Exploring Countries and Cultures clear through the senior year. The elementary through eighth grade provides curriculum for Bible, history, science. Music, art, and extra literature are extra in the deluxe package which we selected different things from depending on our interest and budget. They have recommendations for math, language arts, reading, and foreign language. The high school curriculum includes Bible, History, and English, but depending on the year includes Government, Economics, Geography, Speech. They offer general electives but I don't think we took advantage of any of them and instead created or found our own. We added science, math, and electives.
I liked that with the first five years that I could teach my children the core subjects together even though they were four years a part and then they each did math, English, spelling, reading on their own levels. I appreciated the Godly perspective of the curriculum and learning all subjects from that point of view. I now have one in college and I feel like it prepared him pretty well in conjunction with taking a few classes from a local community college.
The MFW writing recommendation of Writing Strands did not work for our family, and I felt like the Primary and Secondary English Lessons (by Serl) recommended for early elementary English by MFW were pretty basic. Also neither of my kids liked the Rosetta Stone MFW suggests for foreign language. They felt like it was too vague to be able to give them a good grasp of the language.
In the Freshman and Sophomore years, students and parents read through the Old Testament and New Testament and while that is challenging at times, I love that component of the high school curriculum.
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