153. The Homeschool Curriculum I'm Using This Year

Old Fashioned On Purpose

Jill Winger

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🗓️ 20 August 2020

⏱️ 28 minutes

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With the uncertainty that currently exists in school systems across the country, more-and-more people are looking at the possibility of homeschooling for the first time. Though it can be quite confusing at first, I’m here to help make the transition as easy as possible. Today I’ll explain how our curriculum has evolved from years past. I’ll also go over all the books and tools we’re using for school this year. Whether you’re looking to be a full-time homeschooler for ...

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Old Fashioned On Purpose Podcast.
0:04.0	In episode 150, I answered some of the most common questions I've been getting about
0:10.0	homeschooling right now from my friends who are looking at becoming homeschoolers for the first time.
0:16.0	And in that episode I promised that I would create an extra episode all about the books and curriculum that we're using this year.
0:25.8	So it's kind of similar to years past, but with a few changes and just a few notes that I
0:32.4	thought might be helpful for you. So here we go.
0:36.8	I'm your host Jill Winger and this is the podcast for the Trail Blazers. The Mavericks, the
0:42.1	makers, the homesteaders, the modern pioneers. the homegrown lifestyle. Well, this is the place for you. I'm interrupting this episode to give
0:56.4	a quick shout out to our sponsor this month, Union Wireless. Union is a Wyoming-based
1:02.1	small-town telephone company that's been in business for the last 100 years.
1:07.0	They specialize in having more cell towers in more places,
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1:16.4	has blossomed into a thriving network that connects folks via landline, cell phone, and internet service in Wyoming, Colorado, Montana, and Utah.
1:27.0	If you're one of my listeners who lives in the West, head on over to UnionWireless.com to see if they'd be a fit for you. Now back to our show.
1:37.9	So this year I have a fifth grader, a second grader, and pre-K-er. Is that a thing? This is my last year of only homeschooling two children.
1:52.4	And next year, I mean it was kind of homeschooling my
1:56.9	youngest but it's like you know she's still preschool basically so I don't have a lot of
2:00.9	obligation there although she's nagging me to death to do school so I don't have a lot of obligation there, although she's nagging me to death to do school,
2:04.7	so I kind of feel like I have to do something.
2:06.4	Poor child.
2:08.1	Poor thirdborn.
2:09.7	Anyway, so next year I will be officially homeschooling three at a time. No, I don't know how I'm going to do that. I will figure it out as we go. Yes, I am scared. I just don't know. Anyway, it'll be exciting, but that's where we're at I think we're going to start here in the next two weeks
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