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• Oct. 2, 2008 - Finding What Fits

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Discovery, that's what our journey of homeschooling is.  I am learning that at the very beginning of homeschooling, a family tries and finds what fits your child's learning style.  I am finding that N doesn't mind paper work every now and then.  But then he really enjoys hands on learning, also.

Then I learned about another curriculum Robinson Curriculum.  Robinson Curriculum is literature base learning, except for math, and is for K-12 levels.  In my research of this, found A Squared Curriculum, http://www.accelerated-achievement.com/800books.htm#literature very similar to Robinson's Curriculum with some of the same books but more books, and these books are old fashioned books, books I've never heard of, probably seen them on some store bookshelf but didn't pay attention to them.    So I decided to go around to the local used book stores today to search for some of these books: Bobbsey Twins, Tom Swift, the Rover Boys, none of the stores had them.   Well, I found Tom Sawyer and bought it.  I thought I would peak to see what the wording is like.  Now, I am into the story.  So anyways with this curriculum, one would need to be creative, also.

 Have any of you used this curriculum?

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• Oct. 2, 2008 - Kimberly in SantaMaria

Posted by Anonymous
I have heard of it. It sounds good, but as 'almost unschoolers' we don't use curriculum, so I have no personal experience for much in the curriculum area. I have heard good things of this one though.
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Posted by tiarali79
I researched both of them pretty heavily early on in our homeschooling journey, but decided against them finally. Anyway, most of the books are out of print and out of copyright now, which is why the curriculums can sell them so cheaply for you to print out. Try searching for them on gutenberg www.gutenberg.org and you might have better luck.

There is a yahoo group for the robinson curriculum and I remember reading on there someone posted a difference between the two curriculums, I cannot remember the details now.

I do remember that I went against the Robinson curriculum finally because Dr. Robinson is calvinist, and includes Calvin's writings in his curriculum, and also because the Robinson family does not believe in committing to any one church, which means they are then not faithfully serving God through the local church, and I didn't want a curriculum focused on one individual whose spiritual fruit is not as evident as I would like. I also had problems with such an overtly American curriculum, when I am Australian :)

I do highly regard some of Robinson's arguments, and especially appreciate his views on mathematics education; as a result, my kids are doing Prof B maths for the first three levels, and then going on to Saxon 54.

But anyway, I think those were my main reasons for rejecting it, I still think the curriculum itself is sound, so if those reasons don't apply to you in your situation then you may well enjoy it. You might want to join the yahoo group (I think there is information on it on the Robinson website) and ask your own questions there.

You might also want to check out An Old-Fashioned Education http://oldfashionededucation.com/ which has a similar literature based curriculum that is free online, and even has links to a free online maths curriculum. This one is Canadian, I believe.
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