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Hi there!

I'm planning to homeschool my three children: ages 9, 8 and 7 begining this June. Initially I plan to use Unit studies in order to incorporate the different subjects we'll cover into a group setting.

For our Summer Term, we'll cover New Testament studies, Math, Reading and Spanish.

We'll have a new theme each week - and right now I'm just trying to get as many theme ideas together as I possibly can. Any thoughts and advice would be greatly apprieciated!

I'm new to the whole homeschooling experience and I'd gladly welcome ideas!

Just wanted to say hello and welcome to the family here.  I think what you are doing is great but I'm not really experienced with unit studies.  I cheat in this area and use the Prairie Primer and My Little Primer

Thanks for the warm welcome and encouragement!

 I'm trying to come up with themes for each week - it is slightly harder than I thought!

So glad you're planning to homeschool! I'm a long-term homeschool mom and an editor at this site.  Our family often used unit studies--most often used Konos, and at other times created them from scratch with other families, together.  I found that we always needed a separate math curriculum--and phonics too.  But in those early elementary years combining all other subjects in a unit study really worked well.   For those early elementary years we used Miquon Math--those are disposable workbooks, so the workbooks are only good for one child--but the teaching is great, especially for kinetic learners.

Good morning I think these may help. As you probably can tell I love doing research that helps others. http://eclectichomeschool.org/departments/department_manager.asp?deptid=17 http://www.geocities.com/Athens/8259/unitstud.html http://groups.msn.com/toolsforhomeschoolingandunitstudy/_whatsnew.msnw

I forgot to add this one as well http://homeschooling.about.com/od/freeprintables/u/printables.htm. I hope at least one of these help you

I'm VERY interested in the KRONOS system. I really like what I see as far as Godly attributes at the heart of the curriculum. I'm a little concerened about the price. $210 for 18 weeks, not including supplimenting math workbooks and the Spanish lessons I want to include. But overall, I really think this could be the best system for our family at this point in time.

Can anyone offer some more advice regarding KRONOS?