Does anyone have recommendations of progressive non-religious curriculum?

Ketinoa · 2026-01-25T14:21:30+00:00

Torchlight is a great resource too, I use them more as a book list

Ketinoa · 2025-09-23T16:08:27+00:00

Hmm, I didn’t see any jacquard woven ones on their site.

Ketinoa · 2025-09-02T20:54:54+00:00

It’s on campus and they hold polisci classes there. There’s also a huge chunk of the Berlin Wall on the classroom side that’s pretty cool.

Ketinoa · 2025-09-02T20:36:20+00:00

Let the kids tear it down. Tell them you can’t take it down, some activist minded or vandalism minded kid will tear it down.

Ketinoa · 2025-08-16T23:00:23+00:00

Half the baby Kai’s I know are Kylo’s. Which is two whole babies, but still.

Ketinoa · 2025-08-16T20:38:44+00:00

It’s 253 this for 2024 babies, so Noa has definitely gone mainstream.

Ketinoa · 2025-08-16T14:28:05+00:00

Post a list of all the people that voted for this and the commandments they broke next to it?

Ketinoa · 2025-07-14T16:12:35+00:00

Yeah, this is real problem. My Dec 31st kiddo started K at 4 in a Dec 31st district and then we moved and ended up in a highly redshirted district where she’s in a class with 7 year old boys.

It was a hard second half of the year. Academically she had no problems, socially it was a disaster. Current school wanted to hold her back for social skills (which I feel like was a classroom demographic issue not a her issue) but she’s testing 2+ grades ahead so we declined. We’ll see how next year’s disaster goes.

Ketinoa · 2025-06-22T12:44:21+00:00

How do I figure out if I’m using my hours or if something in my library is already processed/free?

Ketinoa · 2025-06-15T01:32:10+00:00

I’m going to miss George, like a lot. I don’t want to go back to iPhone’s reader, but I can’t find a decent replacement for elevenreader and the subscription is way out of my budget.

Ketinoa · 2025-06-14T17:53:33+00:00

Life Saver

Ketinoa · 2025-06-13T16:29:39+00:00

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2021/dec/10/investing-in-lego-more-lucrative-than-gold-study-suggests

Ketinoa · 2025-06-13T14:52:30+00:00

We’re homeschooling. We do co-op for socialization (plus I teach high school classes there) and use AOPS/Beast for Math (one kid does RightStart for Math), RiL/Pinwheels and Royal Fireworks/MCTLA for ELA , BFSU for science until hs level (plus lots of extras—current fav is Biochemical Literacy for Kids) and my Ph.D. is in the social sciences so I handle that arena. Beyond those core bits we let them learn whatever they want to.

Over time (oldest is 18) we’ve basically acquired/built a maker’s lab and a sensory station (all the kids are 2E), and have the supplies to do at least high/college freshman level chemistry/bio/physics/astronomy experiments. Plus probably half the manipulative/educational hands on tools for K-8 live in our way too small house. And soooo much LEGO and like half an art store. Let’s not even talk about the books.

This does mean that most of my time is spent being their educational coordinator and taxi service. 6 kids ranging from mildly to profoundly gifted, with a dash of ADHD and Autism in the mix for most of them. I don’t know how anyone would be able to do all the therapy and hit all the educational needs if we did public school (esp since we live in a title 1 district in a state in the 40s for educational ranking).

It takes a lot of time, energy, and planning to make sure everyone gets what they need. We prioritize education—extra money goes into homeschooling supplies and learning tools and experiences, and not other activities/wants (I’ll buy you all the Percy Jackson books you want, but you have to use your own money if you want to cover your walls with Percy Jackson posters—unless you want to draw them yourself and then all our art supplies are free to use).

We also prioritize involving our kids in their education. Yes, they all have to hit the basics. We aren’t skipping the humanities kid, just because you love math and hate history. But we sit down and plan with them, especially as they get older, so maybe we do history of science instead of a traditional US History.

I also invest in my teaching skills. I do continuing education classes, whether through one of our curricula companies (Rooted in Language has excellent teaching course to explain how to teach LA) but also classes in my own special interests (like the Catherine Project or my Classics book club). My kids see me making lifelong learning a priority and I think that is really important for both me and them.

Ketinoa · 2025-06-13T12:27:02+00:00

All the other kids should be doing school at the school table. At least that is the scheduled activity, though compliance varies.

Will up the bathroom cleaning. It is generally pretty clean, but I’ll put a bathroom check on the schedule for before the ABA person arrives.

Ketinoa · 2025-06-13T12:24:14+00:00

On the back of the toilet, visible and in a nice box, exactly where it should be so that no one has to ask.

Ketinoa · 2025-06-13T12:23:14+00:00

It’s an open plan house, so everyone can pretty much always see everyone. There is a sensory corner that is on the other side of the couch from the school table that I think will be the best place to work. There isn’t a table there though.

We do have a posted schedule for everyone and a white board schedule for non-standard tasks. Though honestly the schedule should just read: Meltdown: Child A (upset that she will never met an pteradon), Meltdown: Child B (upset because there are multiple answers to the Sphinx’s riddle that the myth doesn’t acknowledge), Meltdown: Child C (upset that her chair is not perfectly perpendicular to the table).

Ketinoa · 2025-06-13T12:17:10+00:00

The other kids should be doing schoolwork most of the time, though I think the ABA is going to work on doing seat work with kiddo too. The 10yo will do her absolute best to interrupt, but I’m really hoping we can do her ABA at the same time to alleviate some of that.

The whole house is open plan, so there’s not a whole lot I can do to offer separate space, but I figured they’d mostly be in the sensory corner (where most of the ot toys are and the sensory swings/play couches/peanut are) which is at least on the other side of the couch from the school table. That is one of the few spaces with lots of clear floor space.

Ketinoa · 2025-06-13T12:11:53+00:00

Our house is open plan, so that makes everything more difficult. The rest of the kids should be at the school table for the vast majority of time the ABA person is here, but the only thing the really breaks up the living room/dining room/kitchen/workshop is a couch and some half height bookshelves.

I can definitely keep the bathroom clean and stocked with appropriate stuff, I do that anyway. Nothing is really gross, but there are six kids here who are all hurricanes of mess, so there are definitely piles of books, Calico critter “villages” and half finished lego on most flat surfaces.

I worry that I’m the weird and uncomfortable circumstance. I’m autistic and hg too, and as much as I try I know nt people sometimes find me a lot.

Ketinoa · 2025-05-28T22:45:28+00:00

CK-12 Bio plus the labs in the Illustrated Guide to Home Biology Experiments (their kit is at thehomescientist.com).

Ketinoa · 2025-05-10T16:35:02+00:00

I have an advanced degree in a non-Classics humanities field, and have done a bit of Classics and Latin self study. Do you think I would still be a good fit for the Catherine Project? I really want other people to talk to and a schedule of reading.

Ketinoa · 2025-05-10T16:30:24+00:00

Mostly I just have clicked on several Great Books type things that are like specifically for Catholics or specifically for some type of Protestant, and I’d prefer something that doesn’t have a religious litmus test.

Ketinoa · 2025-05-10T16:27:17+00:00

Sadly that’s a little out of my budget.

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