Homeschool Review: Handwriting Without Tears

I wanted to do another review on the Handwriting Without Tears curriculum because we love it so much and I wanted to give you a look inside so you can get a good feeling for how the home school program works.  I made a video to walk you through the program and what we like about it and also to give some tips for handwriting improvement.  If you're interested in seeing our written review of the 1st grade Handwriting Without Tears book, you can read it here.

Have you ever used this program before?  Did you like it?  Let us know in a comment below.

2nd Grade Homeschool Curriculum Picks

Is it already time for 2nd grade?  It is, and I spent over a month researching the homeschool curriculum we wanted to use for the year.  Some things I already knew we were going to use because we'd used them before and liked them, but others are completely new to us this year.  After coming up with a basic curriculum I scoured the internet typing in things like: "2nd Grade Homeschool Curriculum" just to see what other people were using to see if there was something I wanted to add or change about our list.  That's the reason I'm posting today, to give other people ideas and let you all see what we're using.  If you're wondering how I chose this curriculum, see our post: How To Choose Curriculum Without Pulling My Hair Out.

Things to know about our curriculum picks:

Homeschool Curriculum Review: Horizon Math Grade 1

 I love this math curriculum, and more importantly, my 6 year old loves it.  This being her first year of school where she's really been expected to sit still and write a lot of things down, we've had our struggles when it's come to certain subjects, but luckily math has not been one of them.  When I sat down and made a plan for what our year was going to look like in first grade, I had initially planned on buying Math U See Alpha, but was swayed last minute instead by over a dozen homeschooling parents in our area who use Horizon Math.  Math U See may be a fine program, I don't know because we haven't used it, but I can say for certain that I am glad we are using Horizon for our homeschool math curriculum.  We'll continue to use Horizon until it no longer suits my daughter's math needs.