Jotham's Journey, Prudence and the Millers, 1 Peter, The King's Daughter
Our Curriculum:
Horizons Math Grade 4 and K,The Reading Lesson, Sequential Spelling, Lifepac Language Arts 4, Apologia Astronomy, Veritas Press New Testament/Greeks/Romans
Prima Latina, Contenders for the Faith and various Winters Promise books, Live Mocha Spanish, Plants Grown Up
Peter taught himself to read. He was really young (I think early 4? but he just started on his own. I read to him a ton, and he was always asking me what signs said. He was a sight word reader, and he didn't get phonics until he had been reading over a year. Andrew's learning style is completely different and it has been a challenge for me to relearn EVERYTHING all over again to suite his style. But we found a book that has worked. He LOVES it, I LOVE it, and we've been through a lot of books and styles!
It is The Reading Lesson.
You can actually download the first lesson online at http://www.readinglesson.com/.
We borrowed it from the library and just ordered a copy of our own from Amazon. It was very affordable too, only $18.
Before this the curriculum that worked best for Andrew was Weaver. We used Weaver Interloc for prechool for him, and it worked really well. I was pretty relieved because we were given the entire Weaver program and it just did NOT work for Peter. It is a pricey program so I hated to see it go to waste, but we used the Kindergarten Wisdom Words from it before starting the Reading Lesson, and it definitely fits for Andrew.
I'm not sure how I'm going to easily homeschool 2 children with such drastically different styles, or add a 3rd in a few years, but God is good and he will equip me for this work He has called me to!
And luckily Horizons math, Apologia Science and Veritas Press History and all good matches for both of them, so we do those subjects together!
I've had a challenging time with reading with my five year old too. She does everything differently than her sister! I'm learning to mellow out teaching her though. Sounds like you've sound some good resources that work for your son. What learning style do you think he is? I'm not sure with my daughter - except someone on my blog suggested she might be a right brain learner. And that fits. Because when I switched from trying to break everything down into little pieces for her - to just modeling and reading and letting her catch little tidbits - everything went better.
