We’ve always used our own Bible memorization plan.

Here is a post about how we teach handwriting.

I have a page dedicated to homeschooling topics that you may find useful. If you click the topics in the purple bar across the top it will take you to the archives of those specific homeschooling topics such as preschool, reading, etc.

I’ve also organized some of my basic homeschooling posts into different categories and linked directly to each of them from that page (i.e. teaching Bible, teaching reading, etc.) so that hopefully people can find those resources more easily.

I hope that you enjoy your first years of homeschooling.

I have a set of FIAR passed down to me from my SIL, and was contemplating Sonlight as well…we will start K with our oldest, our son is right behind in pre-K and have a 6 month old…
From what you are saying, and what we looked through last year in BFIAR, FIAR could cover a lot of what Sonlight does, but more at a 10,000 foot level, while Sonlight will be more in-depth…I have an opportunity to borrow the Core A from a fellow mom here, but don’t know if I really need to get into it just yet, now that I see a comparison between the two programs.

What did you do/use for Bible memorization in K? Your own plan or something already created?

Did you add in any handwriting while you did FIAR with your Kindie? We have been using some on-line worksheets I found through an education resource site, and they have worked fine, but didn’t know if I was missing out on anything by not using a program, like Handwriting w/o Tears…

Thanks for any additional insight you can bring. This post was a huge help!

We also started Hey Andrew today. As per your suggestion of doing as much together as possible, we’re going to study Greek together. We’re all very excited, but no one more so than I am.

AND… I already had Mystery of History, but was not sure how to integrate it inot what we were already doing, so it was just sitting on the shelf. Now we’re using it. I love it! I’m just flipping around and reading the selection we just read in Story of the World and she basically reiterates what I just told them.

I’m learning so much from you and your readers! What a blessing you all have been to me!

Sonlight is involved and while that is terrific as your children need to cover more material, it seems a bit overkill for just teaching the basics. FIAR is great preparation for more serious studies or to use while you wait to get a group of children ready to begin Sonlight 1. You can beef up FIAR or use the FIAR for older kids (can’t remember what that’s called) to supplement until you have 2-4 children ready to start into Sonlight 1. Don’t forget to look long term when you begin a curriculum like Sonlight. You don’t want to end up teaching more than 2 levels, at least that’s my plan. I hope to never have more than two levels of students for some of those core subjects. I think it’s possible, but let you know as we reach highschool.