Curriculum suggestions wanted

[Leigh]

Can any of you recommend some 5th grade curriculum that is divided into daily work? I am not going to do everything from one publisher.

We already use Right Start Math, and one of the things I love about it is that it is evenly divided - from Lesson 1 to Lesson 132 (for 4th grade).

We have also been using Alpha Omega Lifepacs. The year's work is divided into 10 units, each comprised of three sections, but mom has to decide how much work to do each day. I see the benefits of that (say we would rather do the work in three days instead of five), but would really prefer to have it portioned for me.

I am looking for suggestions for science, history, and language arts. Will probably still order some Lifepacs because he likes them (and for anyone interested, AOP curriculum is 20% off through April 30th!).

Thanks!

[Architectlink]

you can view our entire curriculum online from kindergarden to 12th grade and it has been vetted for 14 years now.

www.icsfla.org, just click on curriculum for 5th grade

http://www.icsfla.org/academics_elementary_curriculum.html

Some people like Shurley Grammar, but I think it is the most disorganized set of books I have ever seen. They make things about as confusing for a parent between 3 uncoordinated workbooks that I have ever seen.

I like all of the other books, especially Saxon math.

[NewWorldOrder]

I am homeschooling a 5th grader next year.

Just a tip though about deciding how much to do per day. You take how many weeks of school you are planning on doing per year, and divide by the number of lessons. That will tell you how many lessons you will need to do per week. With math, you do not need to do all the lessons, just work the practice problems for two or three lessons and then work all the problems for the others. This works for Saxon Math, and I don't know anything about the math curriculum you are using.

I will be using All American History Volume I from Bright Ideas Press. It has 32 lessons divided into 4 units. It is designed to do one lesson per week. It is also a multi-level curriculum: the first volume is recommended for grades 5 through 8 and Volume II is designed for grades 6 through 12. Both volumes can be adapted for younger or older children.

We are also using a grammar program this is not very well know, but one I have researched and is getting very good reviews. It's called Growing with Grammar. It's very user friendly, and easy to use.

I forgot to mention the Grammar Key. This is a computer based grammar program, this is very inexpensive, and needs little parental help. My 12th grader is using this, and she loves it. What's great about it, is it can be used at any grade level.

http://www.brightideaspress.com/aah_info.htm

http://www.growingwithgrammar.com/index.html

http://www.grammarkey.com/

[Reason&Hope]

Easy Grammar is pretty easy (ha!) to portion out on a daily basis. I love Easy Grammar, btw.
We use BJUP math and those have daily lessons.
For writing and editing skills, a great series is Daily Paragraph Editing. Mon - Thurs, the child edits a paragraph a day, and Friday, they write the last paragraph.

[My Abba's Child]

Can any of you recommend some 5th grade curriculum that is divided into daily work? I am not going to do everything from one publisher.

We already use Right Start Math, and one of the things I love about it is that it is evenly divided - from Lesson 1 to Lesson 132 (for 4th grade).

We have also been using Alpha Omega Lifepacs. The year's work is divided into 10 units, each comprised of three sections, but mom has to decide how much work to do each day. I see the benefits of that (say we would rather do the work in three days instead of five), but would really prefer to have it portioned for me.

I am looking for suggestions for science, history, and language arts. Will probably still order some Lifepacs because he likes them (and for anyone interested, AOP curriculum is 20% off through April 30th!).

Thanks!

Have you taken a look at AOP's Weaver curriculum? We're planning to switch to that soon from SoS because it's more family oriented (instead of each kid sitting there, staring at his/her computer screen). :)

In His love,

[hsmom23]

I have been looking at a history curriculum called Truth Quest. It looks at all history from a Biblical perspective. Has anyone had any experience with that one?

[Old Bullrider]

ABeka Book has excellent curriculum, also you can go to their website ABeka.com and see depending on where you live if they have showing of their products. My wife homeschooled our five children and is now HS two of our grandchildren. According to my wife she wouldn't use any other curriculum.

[Matthew6]

My son gets his through American Homeschool Academy the price isn't too bad and
they incorporate scriptures into every lesson. It is also work at your own pace of
course with in guidelines of education board. They test the child/children and then
with a block system set the child starting where they need. Such as my son he needed
like two more blocks to complete second grade so they sent me the two blocks
worth of books and as soon as he finishes them they will send me third grade curriculum
On the site it has the prices of the broken down book prices score keys and tests.
So I would recommend them to you to look them up on the net or give them a call
to ask all the questions you have.

God Bless you and help you ro find a great curriculum for your child!