Began Homeschooling: 2004
Homeschooled Children: K-6th
Homeschool Style: Eclectic, Charlotte Mason

Our homeschooling style has just recently changed to Charlotte Mason using many different curriculums and living books to help our children get the most out of learning. In the past, we have used Abeka, Math-U-See, Mystery of History, Handwriting without Tears, Beautiful Feet Geography.

Any other background info: Homeschool our 3 children ages 4, 9, and 11.

Language Arts Curriculum

Character Quality Language Arts

Grades: 2nd - High School
Levels Used: Level Pre-A, Level A
Character Quality Language Arts(CQLA), includes Composition, Writing, Grammar, Key Word Outlines, Spelling, Vocabulary, and Dictation.

Materials: Teachers Book (only need to purchase one time), Spelling Notebook (only need to purchase one time), Student Book (purchased each year)

Ease of teaching: Difficult to understand and get started, but worth the time invested to learn to teach

Happy With Curriculum: Yes - why below:

• incorporates character qualities and heroes of the faith in the passages and has student work with them to create a better paper
• repetitively teaches key word outlines week after week in the same format
• frequent review of grammar previously learned and teaches child to use the grammar
• price is good for an entire year of all the subjects it covers
• extra research projects listed in each section
• flexibility

Cons - difficult to learn to use, learning curve from most curriculums a little slow, spelling weak