Welcome to the Homeschool Nations blog for New Brunswick, Canada!
For those of you visiting for the first time, I'm Jennifer, a homeschool mom from (can you guess?) New Brunswick! This will be our 11th year educating our kids at home, and the 11th straight year I'll be late submitting my homeschooling exemption form to District 2 LATE. I think maybe they just expect that now. We have kids who will be in grades 10, 8, 6, 3, and 1, plus this year we have a new little addition-- I'd forgotten how much more challenging it is to homeschool with an infant around. Not impossible, just a bit more tricky to mange my time-- which I fail miserably at on my best days. Please take a moment to check out my links... (they're mainly over on the sidebar, but there are a few scattered throughout my previous posts, so stick around long enough to read through them! or just bookmark me and come back later with a cup of tea)
Some curriculum choices we've made over the years have been downright duds. That's ok-- but I sure cringe at the money I've wasted on it. Here are a few of the things we've used that I would highly recommend (based on my own teaching style) (links are mainly to their respective publishers):
All the above are available through Homeschool and More in Petitcodiac, NB, except maybe the spelling program-- I bought those books at Moyers/ Scholar's Choice in Moncton (on St. George Blvd., near Centennial Park). By the way, this list is by no means comprehensive. We have used MANY books, and have been happy with more than what I've listed... these are just what I could think of off the top of my head. Feel free to e-mail me with YOUR top picks! I'm always looking for advice and recommendations!
~jen
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