All right! Neighbor's homeschooling this year

Very disillusioned with our public school system here in LA, so they are using a modified amblesideonline.com approach with a 6 year old and an 8 year old (Diablo 3 Gold).

They will be reading, using DVD's, seeing movies and attending events and getting books at the local public library, various coloring pages and crafts, field trips, cooking and lapbook projects.

1. Math - online free British MEP program at their grade levels, except for measurement and money which she hopes to cover another way to emphasize our American usage. She prints them out and keeps the completed ones in a binder. Also flash cards to memorize facts.

2. American Geography and some natural science: Tree in the Trail, Seabird, Paddle to the Sea (will be read aloud to kids with maps and other fun projects like a lapbook)

2a. World Geography -- Mexico and China. I think this would be another lapbook project. Lot's of DVD's.

3. D'Aulaire books: Leif Erickson, Benjamin Franklin, George Washington and various movies about these folks (Diablo 3 Gold).

4. Reading - With the younger one she will use Teach Your Child to Read in 100 Easy Lessons and the older one will have real reading books like "Otto of the Silver Hand, "Doctor Doolittle" and I don't remember what all.

5. A Child's History of the World (different chapters for the different levels)

6. Lyric Spanish (learn to sing some Spanish songs and vocabulary work

7. Chinese study, I think it is "Learn Chinese though Fairy Tales" with a lot of YouTube thrown in.

8. Science: Various experiments. I think she said they will be focusing on on "motion and energy" (Diablo 3 Gold).

Also some kind of unit study tie in with any or all of these.

Sunday School, piano lessons, swimming, and soccer, too. Boys & Girls Club, I think Scouting for the older one. The dad gets out the telescope every clear night, while the mom is a very gifted painter. I feel envy.