What have you used for multiple years and don't plan to change?

[Karen in CO]

I have next year mostly planned and was looking at my long-term plans for both of my younger kids. Other than handwriting, math and SOTW, there is nothing I am using next year that I used this year. I am using many of the same methods, but few of the same products. I hope in the future to have more products that I will re-use so that I don't constantly feel like I am re-inventing the proverbial wheel every year during planning time.

What have you used for a year or more that you will continue to use? For me, it is Getty-Dubay Italics and SOTW (used YR1 for two years now and will use YR2 next year with TOG). They are the only products I have used for more than a year that I will continue to use. I have a few that I have used with my ds that I will use when my girls get ready- IEW and LL.

[Chris in CA]

Rod & Staff math from 1-8, I strayed with my oldest and it was a disaster, now my younger will reap the benefits of experience.
Also Analytical Grammar

[Dayle in Guatemala]

Learning Language Arts Through Literature (used 8 years now), Lightning Literature (used 2 years now), Writing Strands (used 2 years now), and Apologia Science (used 4 years now). We just started using Truthquest History and love that, too.

[Karin]

Singapore Math, Easy Grammar (well, dd has been done with that for most of a year, but ds will start it next year--I already own them and have to buy high school stuff for dd, etc. Plus, I like it for what it is.)

SOTW

R&S English (older 2, someday ds)

Can't think of anything else off the top of my head, but that doesn't mean there aren't more. It depends on the child! When dd starts high school, little will remain the same.

[Crissy]

When it comes to text books, I've never deviated from Rod and Staff for math and English. I love them both.
As far as methods are concerned, history and literature the WTM way has served us well, and we don't plan to change that either.

[KIN]

I hope in the future to have more products that I will re-use so that I don't constantly feel like I am re-inventing the proverbial wheel every year during planning time.

Amen sister! I've been thinking that I want to have more of the same things every year as well. Starting over and questioning everything every year is getting a little old. Here is what I know for sure I will use for several years:

Right Start Math
Spell to Write and Read
Story of the World - in the form of Biblioplan
Cursive First handwriting
Rod and Staff Readers for Bible

That is it! I'm questioning or trying for the first time Rod and Staff Grammar, Writing Tales, Latina Christiana, Trail Guide to World Geography, RS4K pre-level 1 Chemistry, ummmm, I think everything new. No wonder I've been spending so much time trying to figure everything out this year!

[Mama Lynx]

Story of the World
Classical Writing
Right Start Math
Singapore Math
First Language Lessons

[Jenny in Atl]

Singapore Math (also using NEM), GWG, SL, CW, and LP

[KAR120C]

What have you used for a year or more that you will continue to use?
Singapore Math,
Singapore Science (MPH and now Interactive),
Story of the World,
History of US,
and I'm coming up on a year with Lightning Lit and planning on continuing!

We juggle a lot of "extras" but our core is pretty stable.

[SheilaZ]

MCP math (my oldest is finishing the series this year)
Spelling Workout
Wordly Wise
Rod and Staff English
Handwriting without Tears

I've finally resigned that these are the best for my kids style of learning and my style of teaching.

[NicksMama-Zack's Mama Too]

Singapore Math (added Key to this year)
Rod & Staff Grammar
Megawords
Story of the World

In the past we used all of:
Explode the Code (books 1-8, both students)
FLL (K-1)

[Mom2legomaniacs]

SOTW, R&S Grammar, SWO, MCP math, HWT

I have a 1st and a 4th.

[ABQmom]

Rod and Staff grammar

[WTMCassandra]

:auto:We're cruising along with:

SOTW+Biblioplan for logic stage
Classical Writing
Professor B Math

[Paula in PA]

Ones we have used & will continue to use:
RightStart Math
SOTW
HWOT
Artistic Pursuits
Elson Readers
Minimus series

[Cindy in NY]

Our perfect fits are:

Classical Writing
Handwriting without Tears
Professor B math

[WTMindy]

SOTW for all 4 years and we are still using it as a resource the second time through the rotation. I love that.

[Robin in Tx]

I have a 12yo 6th grader. I am sticking with the following programs that I've used for repeated yeats:

R&S Grammar
Saxon Math
I would use R&S Spelling but I like the switch to Vocab... have been using R&S Spelling and Handwrting for years

One year in use and will continue:
Latin in the Christian Trivum (wth online class)
BJU Science
Vocabulary for Achievement

[Heather in NC]

SOTW
MUS
HWT
PL/LCI/LCII series

[PariSarah]

R&S Grammar, Elementary Greek, SOTW and library books from the Activity Guide.

[attachedto4]

Sonlight
MUS
ETC

That's about it- LA I am always tweaking, can't wait till we find a good fit. Science never seems to work out like I'd hoped either.

[Carol in Cal.]

Chorus, Junior Great books coop...

We will continue the WTM approach to literature (no curriculum) except for a LLOTR digression next year. Because we just can't RESIST!

[LizzyBee]

Singapore Math
Rod & Staff English
Story of the World

[Beth in Central TX]

Programs I will not change:

R&S Math Grades 1-8
R&S Grammar Grades 2-8
R&S Reading/Bible Grades 1-4
R&S Bible Grades 5-6
R&S Art Grades 1-8
R&S Music Grades 1-6
CW series starting at Aesop
Apologia Elementary-all books
Elementary Greek Vol I-III
Latin: PL, LCI, LCII, Wheelock's
SOTW Vol I-IV
FLL
Peterson Directed Handwriting

Programs still up in the air and/& that change from year to year or even month to month:
History for logic and rhetoric stages
Science from 7th grade and up
Math from 8th grade and up
Logic progression

[AngieW in Texas]

Before I started my youngest dd, I would have said Miquon Math for 1st-3rd grades, but it didn't work at all for my youngest.

Singapore Math (until my youngest couldn't deal with it any more and we tried a whole bunch of different things and then came back to it)

Jacobs Algebra and Jacobs Geometry (but I added Kinetic books algebra as well for my 12yo because she thought Jacobs looked intimidating when she started)

Sonlight - I've used it since 1997.

Prentice Hall Science Explorer for 6th-8th or 5th-8th

Flashkids Language Arts - my middle dd has used it for 5th-7th and my youngest has used it for 2nd-3rd (she's working one grade level below her age)

[Suzanne in ABQ]

Rod & Staff Grammar (3rd through 6th, so far)
Singapore Math (Primary Math: K through 6th)
HWT (K through 3rd, but used entire program)
Story of the World (six year plan -- yeah! I planned on it taking six years! That's my story, and I'm sticking to it.)

[Laura Corin]

SOTW, Singapore Maths, So You Really Want to Learn English, Latin Prep.

Laura

[Kathie in VA]

Classical Writing - used w/o workbks, Aesop A & Aesop B-last year, Aesop B & Homer A this year... hope to use Poetry and Homer B (&A) next year.

FLL - use for 2 years with one ds, and this is our 2nd year with next ds. will hold for youngest dd who is only 3yrs old right now.

Mastering Mathematics- all the books with 3 kiddos. Oldest has switched to Lial's BCM, will continue with it next year to finnish.

Handwriting Skills Simplified

How to Spell / How to Teach Spelling (for all kids, oldest recently switched)
Apples Daily Spelling Drills (for 13yo dd)

Typing Instructor Deluxe (all kids till done)

Mind Benders A1/A2 & B1/B2 CD (used for oldest two, storing for next two)

Alpha Phonics (used with two kids, saving for last one)

[Vanna]

SOTW -- not broke here, don't fix it

Latin Primer -- must get my money's worth (3 dc divided by original cost equals a great bargain:lol:)

Shiller Math -- for 2nd and 3rd dc; I still can't believe they "ask" to do Math

Wish there was more. (((sigh)))

-Vanna

[buddhabelly]

Latin for Children (C); Lingua Latina
Spelling Workout (F)
SOTW (4)
Classical Writing & IEW
Growing with Grammar (4)
Right Start Math (E) & some Singapore Math
Artistic Pursuits (4-6 grade books)

[asher]

I wish there was some continuity to my hs'ing :P curriculum. I see trends in curriculum that I will use again w. dd & have gone back to w. ds. If I had a crystal ball I would guess:

MUS (w. Singapore to supplement- I love them both)
FLL (I love the way it's all laid out for you *so* easy to use!)
HWOT (I really see us using this for cursive w. ds & print for dd)
ETC

I will start BFIAR w. dd this coming year, and we did it w. ds, too.

[Johanna]

MFW K and MFW 1st....they work like a charm!

[dalynnrmc]

R&S Grammar
Mystery of History
MUS

We've only been hsing for 2 years now, didn't use the same things this past year as last year in any subject. LOL Even though this year is the first year we've begun them (read: started since Christmas) I expect that we will also continue to use:

Spelling Power
Christian Liberty Press Bible for mid-grades
Creation science books by Felice Gerwitz and Jill Whitlock

And, I've just realized this week that I need to get some sort of tentative long-term plan in place, to control spending each year. *blush*

[Mary in NJ]

Rod and Staff Math
Rod and Staff English
Story of the World
Educational Fontware (to produce my own copywork/handwriting sheets)
Getty DuBay Italic Handwriting


Mary

[TMarie]

FLL
R&S grammar
Singapore math
Apologia Elementary science
Artistic Pursuits

[Colleen]

In nearly 8 years of homeschooling, I've not often switched curriculum. A lot of what we use, we've used for years. I was fortunate to hit on programs which suited my oldest son and me well from the beginning ~ and continue to serve all my guys well. I did make two significant changes before starting the current school year. I replaced R&S English, which we'd used for 4 or 5 years, with Galore Park's English series; and I went with Galore Park Latin in lieu of the program (Latina Christiana) we had going for a couple of years. I do still plan on using Prima Latina with my younger set before they head into GP Latin.

Here are some of our tried-and-true resources:

Singapore Math (Primary Math series) ~ 8 years

Sonlight history ~ 7 years

Spelling Workout ~ 6 years

Getty-Dubay Italic ~ 6 years

Others that we've used for at least a couple of years and will continue with include Apologia science, Mindbenders, Typing Instructor Deluxe, & Rosetta Stone.

[Closeacademy]

We have used and will continue to use:

SWR--2 1/2 years now, at K-2nd we just concentrate on the sounds of the phonograms, and when we see words or they want to spell a word we sound them out. Once they are comfortable reading I will start the lists.

Singapore Math--4 years, my second is going through earlybird and my oldest is doing 3a/b.

Story of the World--2 1/2 years, we are doing number 2 and will take to the end of the year to finish it.

Progymnasmata--this is our framework for composition but I am writing my own curriculum for this based upon my notes from Composition in the Classical Tradition by D'Angelo.

My Pals are Here Science--2 years. My oldest just loves it.

I guess we are pretty happy.:001_smile:

[Jackie in AR]

Singapore Math (including NEM) - This is our 7th year in this curriculum.

Classical Writing - We have used Aesop, Homer, and are now in Diogenes, and we'll likely continue with this for all dc as long as Lene keeps writing books.

TOG - We haven't used this for very long, but I envision we'll continue it all the way through high school.

[HollyDay]

BJU Science (6 years running)
DITHOR - until we outgrow it (3 years so far)

[elegantlion]

Singapore Math
Easy Grammar (my son actually likes this grammar :D)

[chiguirre]

We've only been hsing 2 years, so my picks will be winners for K, 1 and what we'll use for 2:

ETC: We've tried MCP and the Pathway phonics, but ETC wins hands down. Those goofy pictures make phonics phun!

Singapore Earlybird Math: My kids are polar opposites as far as learning speed, but these worked with both. Both kids have also done SF Exploring Math K but I'd pick EB if I was going to do just one. Otherwise, SF K fits well between 1B and 2A.

LLATL Blue (and Red): This is another resource that works for both my learners. It's simple, but it gets the job done.

R&S Math: We'll stick with this for 2nd and up.

FIAR: This works so well if you want to combine a K/1st with a younger sibling. We've learned a lot and we'll finish all 3 volumes by September or October. We've liked it so much we'll do Vol. 4 next year.

[LisaK in VA]

Abeka Phonics (used with 3/4 of our children), also with spelling and Letters & sounds for K-2
Abeka Math (K5-2nd) great for young children (used with 2/4)
Sadlier-Oxford Progress in Mathematics -- (will begin with my 2nd this fall)
K12 Lit, History, Science, Art & Music (using with 3/4)
This will be my first year with FLL for my younger two... so if that goes well I expect to use it with my 4th. Otherwise, it will be back to Abeka.
Oral Language Exercises (oldest 3)
Latin for Children (oldest 3)
VP Bible (all 4)
Leading Little Ones to God (all 4)
Character Sketches (all 4)
And, we will listen to SOTW in the car on CD.

[Midwest Momma]

BIBLE – Christian Liberty until 8th grade
MATH – Saxon (54 to Advanced)
HISTORY – Streams of Civ, ABEKA
SCIENCE – Apologia General, Physical, Bio, Chem, Physics
LANGUAGE ARTS – LLATL, English From the Roots Up
FOREIGN LANGUAGE— Rosetta Stone Spanish, Artes Latinae
Art – Lambs book 1 & 2, How Great Thou Art
Typing - Mavis Beacon

[Kim in Appalachia]

nt

[mcconnellboys]

Getty-Dubay and SOTW for me, too. I guess I'm a stick in the mud, LOL, because I have a lot:

Abeka for grammar, beginning in the A,B,C series and going through the I-IV for upper level work.

Spelling Workout all the way through.

Vocab from Classical Roots - been through it all once and plan to go again.

Singapore through 6B.

Latin Primer - been through it once and I guess I'm getting ready to go again. I was interested in Lively Latin, but I can't access the folks who write it, for some reason, so I don't feel comfortable attempting to do business with them.

For science, things I've used before and am using again include the Reader's Digest books; the Visual Factfinder books; lots of DK books like the Eyewitness and Visual Dictionaries, etc.; Elements for chemistry and her follow-up on organic chemistry; Kym Wright's botany study; Science in a Nutshell kits; maybe Friendly Chemistry if I can get a handle on the mistakes in it (I'm going to ask a chem professor friend for help); Fun with Atoms and Molecules (or whatever those chem experiment books are called - I call them the wrong thing about half the time, LOL).

Regena

[Sarah CB]

I feel very comfortable with the resources that I'll use again and again.

Singapore math for 1 - 6 (we've been using this with different kids for over 7 years)

Classical Writing (3 years)

TOG years 1 and 2 (two years), I'll likely use year 4 as well.

SOTW (5 years)

Apologia elementary science (2 years)

[Lorna]

We have been using
Singapore Maths - for the whole four years of home -schooling (now doing 5B and NEM 1)
Spelling Workout - for two years with younger son.
Galore Park English for two/three years with older daughter.
I know we will stick with the Galore Park books and Lightning Literature too.



These are all thing we have enjoyed and I am glad we stuck with. There have been other successes like the Michel Thomas French course, Our Island Story, SOTW, and the How ... Works series but we have completed them.

[bkpan]

Singapore Math
ETC (mommy loves the pictures as much as the dc!)
SWO (so far all of my dc have been natural spellers)
R&S Grammar
HWT (love(!) this program for our 4 boys)
SOTW

Just beginning Prima Latina and like it, starting TOG (Yr2) next year, Aplogia Elementary Science series, and Classical Writing (Aesop). Pretty sure that these will be winners!

Kim in TN (used to be in NV)

[prairiegirl]

RightStart Math
SOTW
VocabuLit
MP's Christian Studies
FLL
ETC


Julia
mom of 3 (8,7,5)

[St. Theophan Academy]

ETC is a huge winner here too - don't know why I ever strayed, won't do that again!

[Donna A.]

The only thing we've never deviated from is Building Spelling Skills from Christian Liberty Press. Others that we won't change now that we've found them:

My Father's World (I keep looking around at other things, and always come back to this... I might as well stop looking! ;) )

English from the Roots Up -- very easy and not time consuming

Word Roots software

Typing Instructor Deluxe

Singapore math at least for a few years, even if we supplement or finish out with something else

Primary and Intermediate Language Lessons

Everything else varies from child to child.

[Ferdie]

Pathway readers - I love these stories, even the third time through.
Right Start math
SOTW - we are beginning our 2nd cycle next year starting over with ancients and I plan to use it again with my younger two and beefed up with my oldest.

[ThelmaLou]

I have used all of the following for several years with multiple kiddos. Won't change a thing in these areas:

Rod and Staff English
Horizons Math 1-3 (upper grades might be up for grabs, currently using Saxon from 5/4 through 8/7, then switching to University of Chicago pre-algebra and algebra.)
Maps, Charts and Graphs series by Modern Curriculum Press
Veritas History (supplementing with SOTW audio)
Phonics Pathways
Getty Dubay Italics
Sheppard Software
Typing Instructor Deluxe
Vos Story Bible

[Lori in MS]

MFW all the way through highschool
FLL 1-4
IEW
MUS/Singapore for grades 1-6
Elementary Apologia books
R&S Spelling

[vmsurbat]

these are my tried-n-true that I used multiple times once discovered:

Bible: K-3: Vos Story Bible
4-7/8th: R&S 5-8 (Covers the whole Bible in 4 years)
8/9th-12: Explorer's Quest studies

Grammar 2nd Grade: the old Daily Grams Teaching/Guided Review (pink book--there must be a new equivalent). Loved this text for 2nd graders.

English 2-4th grade: Primary and Intermediate Language Lessons (3 years total, moving through the books with exercises I thought worthwhile)
English 5-7th grade: R&S English 4-6
Composition: Wordsmith Apprentice (sometime between 4-6th grade)
Spelling: 2-6th: R&S Spelling
Vocab: 7-11th: Wordly Wise 3000
Vocab: 12th: Vocab for the College-Bound
Grammar Jr. High: Jensen's
Grammar Highschool: ABeka (take 2 years for just grammar to review)

Math: 1st-7th: R&S 1-7
Pre-Algebra: BJU Pre-Algebra
Algebra I and II: Math Relief

History: 3/4th: Sonlight 3 and 4 (American History for elementaries)
4th+: MOH (World history for late elementaries)

Science: 7th-12th: BJU HomeSAT or DVD

You can see that my biggest difficulties are with high school history and lit--it has been hard to find the perfect combination....

HTH,

[camibami]

We've been at this 5 years now (whoa....!) and the "keepers" are:

Saxon Math
FLL for 1st and 2nd
Rosetta Stone (taking us a loonnggg time, but we ARE learning Spanish!)
SOTW and the 5 year rotation (one year for US History)
HWWT- used 'em all
Phonics Pathways-perfection in teaching reading!

Love SL, will use it 3 years, but thats all because it isn't chronological enough for me.

Cami

[claire up north]

A Beka Math (now staring book 6)
Singapore Math (now starting book 4B)
Sequential Spelling
Spelling Time
A Beka Grammar (currently on Language 3; will move to God's Gift of Language A in December)

[MelissaMinNC]

I haven't used anything for multiple years at this point (dd is in 1st grade). But, the things we used this year that we are planning to continue next year are:

ToG - we just love this program!
Italics - although we are making a change from buying the workbooks to using Startwrite, I still plan on using the Italic font
Composer and Artist Study lists from Ambleside Online

Other things that we're keeping are more methods than curriculum: copywork, notebooking, handcrafts, nature journals, etc.

:)
Melissa

[Chocolate Lover]

Yes, I love the way you phrased the request for this thread. I think this has been my hidden agenda all along, even hidden from myself, as you can see now that I write this out.:001_huh: Thanks for prompting my thinking.

Math: Singapore from Earlybird 1A through now finishing Primary Maths 2A. I plan on using this through 6B and then NEM 1-4, then maybe calculus. For Primary Maths, we also use CWP, IP and the CD-Roms that are for two years of the textbooks.

Language Arts:
Phonics: Phonics Pathways, we did this about 3 times a week and it took about two years, including the advanced part of the Pyramid book, Explode the Code from A, B, and C through 1 - 8, BOB Books all 5 boxes

Reading: Pathway Readers for kindness, Junior Great Books, Beyond The Code, and every book ds can get his hands on.

Spelling: Spelling Workout A, B, C, in D now, plan on using all levels through H

Grammar: First Language Lessons 1/2 mostly for narration, copywork and dictations, and poetry memorywork
Growing With Grammar 1/2, soon to be starting level 3. Will use this through its' last level

Handwriting: Handwriting Without Tears Pre-K through Cursive, they have a Hebrew script book now, too!

Composition: vasilating between Writing Strands(used level 1 and started level 2) and Classical Writing-Aesop thru end of program(I just bought Aesop core and A's student workbook and instructor's guide. Still waiting for the student workbook to come in the mail. Luckily, I found the Homer core in a used bookstore for $8 so I bought it.) Today I read on the boards about SWB's new writing program, and someone mentioned Writing Tales. So I am looking for something that will take us through high school, which Writing Strands does, and Classical Writing and SWB's program promises to do, but I am still weighing the pros and cons.

Copywork: I use Educationalfontware.com, a CD-Rom to make my own copywork pages with the font's I am using for handwriting. This is great, I can use it for literature, bible, history, science any subject.

Latin: Minimus and Minimus Secundus, also planning on using the three levels of Latin for Children A, B, and C.

Hebrew: Tal Am from Canada, Instant Immersion Hebrew CD-Rom, also planning on using one of the more popular The Learnables ,or Rosetta Stone from the library with homeschool workbooks, or Pimsleur's for high school, or hebrewonline.com which has live online classes, with the teacher in Israel, in both biblical and modern hebrew, but is very expensive.

History: Story of the World1-4/History Odyssey 12 levels

Jewish History: Introduction to Jewish History from Behrman House, has another level that I can't remember the name of right now.

Science: WTM Life Science/R.E.A.L. Science Life Level 1, and WTM/Earth and Space Level 1. For chemistry and physics, I don't know what we will use, maybe a combo of Real Science-4-Kids Level Pre-1 Chemistry and Adventures with Atoms and Molecules Books 1,2,3,4,5, then maybe the Real Science-4-Kids Level 1 Physics and a Dover book called something like Physics Experiments for Children. All levels of science are supplemented by LOTS of free reading. DS loves reading science non-fiction.

Art: For skills, we use Art Adventures at Home. I love this as it has only 3 books for K-8th. After that I don't know what we will do.
For appreciation, we use Child-size Masterpieces, a program that uses postcard size reproductions, with 8 levels.

Music: For skills, we like the Progressive series - Recorder, Piano, Keyboard, Organ, Guitar from www.learntoplaymusic.com (http://www.learntoplaymusic.com) Each instrument has several method books and songbooks.
For appreciation we use Stories of the Great Composers which has 2 books and 2 books for the subsequent Meet the Great Composers.

I hope this helps you find some good consistency in your curriculum.

[Arch At Home]

STOW, Singapore My Pals are Here Science, Singapore Let's Learn Science, Singapore Early Bird Math, Singapore Primary Math, Miquon, Explode the Code, Brave Writer, Educational Fontware and Faith First.

[jail warden]

RightStart Math
R&S Bible
Spell To Write And Read
R&S ArtPacs
R&S Music
SOTW 1 & 2 so far

[Carmen_and_Company]

Used over the past 7 years, currently using, or will use over the next 7-8 years with at least 2 of my 3 dc:

Composition in the Classical Tradition
Classical Writing
Stewart English
Wordsmith Series
Sequential Spelling
Vocabulary for the . . .series
SOTW
TRISMS
The Well-Educated Mind
History of the World series by SWB when all written
Britannica 54 volume set: Great Books of the Western World
Singapore Math
Miquon
Dolciani authored math books
Foerster's precalculus & calculus texts
Senquential Spelling
Dandy Lion Logic series
Holt Biology
My World Science
Traditional Logic I
The Art of Reasoning
Artistic Pursuits
Madrigal's Magic Key to Spanish
Latin Via Ovid

New this year, but most likely will continue:
Latin Prep series
Lively Latin--if 2nd volume ready for fall--is there going to be a second vol.?
Miniumus Secondus
OM science & history
Livingmath.net math unit studies

I know I'm forgetting something . . .hmmm.

[Malenki]

We've only been officially homeschooling for a few years so our list is fairly short:

Handwriting Without Tears
ETC Get Set, Get Ready, Go For the Code (the rest of the books were terrible for DS)
R&S Math
TruthQuest History (we'll do all the American History for the young students... not sure after that)

[Jlynn]

Rod & Staff Math 1-4 , English 1-3

Sonlight Cores 1-3

[LunaLee]

R&S English
SOTW for DS9
Singapore Math for DS9
Writing Strands
Spelling Workout

[Dana in OR]

Singapore Math. I love this more and more each year.

[JumpedIntoTheDeepEndFirst]

Saxon Math
Latin Primer
SOTW
Zaner-Bloser Handwriting
Veritas Press Lit. Guides
Trail Guide to World Geography

[profmom]

Singapore Math (EB - 5B so far) -- This may be the only one that truly qualifies as "used for multiple years." We've used it from the beginning.


Other keepers for us:

~ Classical Writing (currently using Homer A & Beg. Poetry)
~ WT for ds #2 (but we'll move to CW by Homer)
~ Bible -- love to have the kids memorize passages/chapters
~ Elementary Greek (first year, but love it)
~ A Reason for Handwriting (esp. for cursive practice)


What I'll probably keep, because they are working fine (even though I sometimes look around):

~ R & S Spelling
~ GWG


What I liked with #1 & 2 that I plan to use with #3 when we begin:

~ B4FIAR & FIAR
~ 100EL
~ FLL1/2
~ Vos story Bible
~ SM (again, I know :) )


High hopes for these becoming standards here (beginning next year):

~ TOG
~ Apologia Elem. science

[LisaNY]

nt

[WendyK]

SOTW, Singapore Math, HWT cursive, Elson Readers, Writing Strands, FLL (just bought level 3 and saw that there will be a level 4 at some point)

[lori in tx]

For us the keepers have been:

Math U See (for primer-zeta my older kids need more review)
TOG (going on 4 years for this)
Trail Guide to_________ (great program, simple to use)

That is it!
blessings
lori

[Susan in TX]

Developmental Math
Rod and Staff English
Rod and Staff Spelling
Explode the Code
Apologia Science
Lightning Lit
The Library :-)

Susan in TX

[pixelroper]

McGuffey's Readers
OPG w/SpWo
FLL
R&S Eng
implementing StWR mechanics
CW
FMoR, D'Au GM,FMoG & MP study guides
PL & LCI, LCII + Lingua Angelica, Latin Ludere
Elem. Greek
Christian Studies MP
SotW
Apologia Science Elem. + S4K(chem & phys)
Practical Mathematics & Ray's Arithmetic

lots & lots & lots of reading!!!

[Narrow Gate Academy]

Used multiple years with more than 1 child:
Phonics Pathways
SWO
Singapore Primary Math
Miquon Math

Just started using this year that we plan to continue:
Classical Writing
R&S English
Truthquest history

[one l michele]

with his two older brothers paving the way.

MWS 1st-4th doing 4 units per year then moving into Prentice Hall Science Explorers
Sonlight core C - 5 for History/Geography & read alouds then we'll likely use TRISMS
Horizon math K-6
Flashkids LA 1st-4th then moving into AG for middle
IEW for writing
SWR for learning to read and spelling

[Kelli in TN]

I never say never, but the things I have stayed with for awhile now and am likely to stick with are

Rod and Staff Grammar
SOTW w/VP cards
Horizons math
Italic handwriting using Getty Dubay and Startwrite
Teaching Textbooks math