First & Fourth Grade with Agents L & E

We tried out a new curriculum this year. It's called Allinonehomeschool.com. It was created by a missionary mom and it's free.  Their website is set up so that you pick what year/level your student is on for basic subjects (math, language arts, computer, etc) and then you pick what level history/science combination you want to do. I had Agent E and L do their respective grades and then we joined together and did Level One history/science together.

It worked pretty slick. My goal for the year was for the kids to gain another level of independence. I used an application called Evernote to create them daily school to-do lists. The application allowed me cut and paste text from the allinone website directly into their online to-do list. They would simply click on the links in their to-do list and go read about their language art lesson and do an online game that reinforced the concept. I like the concept a lot but ran into enough of problems with Evernote that for next year we're switching to Google Docs.

Along with a lot more computer access came a lot more online security measures. It was a necessary hassle to go look at each new website that a lesson was at and approve them so the kids could have access. Again, it was a free curriculum.  It was worth the hassle.

Agent E still used Teaching Textbooks for math and Agent L used Life of Fred.