Educating the Wheelers

I have not been posting much lately on personal finance issues — for a variety of reasons, but the biggest is that right now my husband is handling most of the finances now and I am concentrating on raising and educating the children. That’s enough to keep me busy all day and most of the night. Heh.

Over the last 6 months or so, we’ve been doing the very, very slow ramp up to daily school. We tend to use a mix and matched, eclectic, literature-based approach, which makes it pretty easy to slip things in here and there and the next thing you know …. it’s school.

What are we using? Well, I intend to post more detail about each in additional posts, but here’s a loose list of what we’re drawing from right now:

* WinterPromise’s Animals and Their Worlds
* Sonlight Core K
* Singapore Math
* Math-U-See
* First Language Lessons for the Well-Trained Mind
* Queen Homeschool’s Language Lessons for Little Ones
* Handwriting Without Tears
* Simple Schooling Science Units
* Sonlight Science K
* A bunch of other random resources

… and just plain reading, reading, reading. (Oh, and a little bit of Leapfrog videos for Owen. Love those.)

Audrey took her first standardized test about 6 months ago so we could get a baseline for “where’s she’s at” at the starting line of “formal” school for her, and she scored very well — about a 5th grade reading level already. She was around 2nd-3rd grade level for other subjects, so that gives me some healthy breathing room. She’s my crash test dummy, as the oldest child, and maybe Owen won’t have quite so much “throwing spaghetti at the wall” as she cheerfully puts up with.

Or maybe he’ll be completely different from her and he will.

Heh.