Along the way we have discovered many benefits to homeschooling. It gives our children continuity in their schooling as well as a lot of flexibility to travel around dad's ever-changing submarine deployment schedule.
Many people homeschool for religious or other reasons.
This year we are using the Prairie Primer . It is a unit study approach and is based on the Little House on the Prairie books. There are nine books in the series, and we will cover roughly one book per month. We will be supplementing with McGuffey's Readers , Ray's Arithmetic , and Harvey's Grammars . We also will be using various computer programs, such as The Oregon Trail to supplement history and geography.