Home School From The Heart
Excellence in Home Schooling
Glorifying Christ in all we do.
Glorifying Christ in all we do.
| Home School From the Heart is presented by The Fisher Family. John and Cindy, Chris, Jordan, Shawn and Caise. We have home schooled our children for most of their education with the exception of two year upon our return from the mission fields of France, where we lived for 3 years. We have lived in Tulsa for 4 years now and again returned to home schooling last year and will continue in that direction as the Lord leads. |
| How and why we home school... |
| Home schooling for our family has always been an eclectic adventure. I had taught k-4 in a private school using a well known program. I knew that there was a better way for out family. After Reading Ruth Beechick's books the 3 R's. I jumped in and taught my first son to read very simply... with some sound flash cards, a notebook and some Bob Books and off he went. By the time my 2nd was ready to start my 3rd was born and I need something that was more laid out so we tried 100 easy lessons.. Which was OK, but it bugged me .. So we found Pathway Phonics at the library and it is what I used to finish with my 2nd and used completely for my 3rd and 4th children along with some simple readers.. I recommend it to everyone. It is not flashy with lots of bells and whistles but it works with about 15 minutes a day..http://www.dorbooks.com/.. Reading has been a focus for our family. I haven't always been the best at reading out loud to my children..I was better when the 1st two were younger. But we have always listened to great thing on tape and as they learned to read they read real books more than textbooks. Then while living in France We all started reading much more, even me. Life in someways was slower and more focused and the children more isolated, so we all read...The only problem was we kept running out of books, that is when I learned about online books from http://amblesideonline.org I had read about the Charlotte Mason approach for several years, but not until we were in France did I implement it. It is still my method of choice but I don't use it with every subject. |
| This year 2008-09 Every Year is unique 11th grade Here is what we are doing....This Year..My youngest son is going into 11th grade and will be attending Tulsa Tech and taking their pre- engineering program. We will be doing pre calculus this year and exploring the different areas of engineering. At home he will be doing English and using Hewitt's Lightning Literature and Composition guides http://hewitthomeschooling.com/book/blight.asp and two days a week he will work through Character Quality Language Arts level C. Read my review and for American History we are using The Road Map to America: the Last Best Hope by William Bennet and we will read the Thoene Novels covering pre WW2 The Zion Covenant series at Amazon or CBD/ and French and Latin Using Powerglide 5th grade Our youngest is going into 5th grade this year. Will will be using Memory Cross for bible memorization and the New testament pack from Homeschool in the Woods 4th and 5th grade Character Quality Language Arts Here is the website with samples Literature Math: Center for Innovations in Mathematics Teaching A free math program for grades 1-12+ Milestones in Science purchased at Timberdoodle and a magnets unit from http://www.homeschoolscience.com/ enrichment classes with Home School from the Heart's Elementary Adventures History Time Travelers History Units from Homeschool in the Woods enrichment classes with Homeschool Adventures French for Fun classes at our home 2007-08 10th grade: Bible: We will be reading through several books and daily devotions: See our list Apologia Chemistry with a labs at the Tulsa Academic Co-op. IEW writing course through TAC co-op. If you are interested in IEW contact me I have friend who sells it. Math: Algebra 2 Teaching Textbooks American History through Historical Fiction French and Latin: We use Rosetta Stone through the Chattanooga Tenn Library It cost $30.00, for access per year. Click here for more French sites Drama at a community home school drama course. 4th Grade Math: Center for Innovations in Mathematics Teaching A free math program for grades 1-12+ Science: Considering God's Creations English: Learning Language Arts Through Literature Orange book Spelling Optional Character Quality Language Arts |
