Home School From The Heart
Excellence in Home Schooling
                                 Glorifying Christ in all we do.
Home School From the Heart is presented by The Fisher Family.  John and Cindy,
Chris, Jordan, Shawn and Caise.  We have home schooled our children for most of
their education.with the exception of two year upon or return from the mission fields
of France, where we lived for 3 years.  We have lived in Tulsa for 3 years now and
again returned to home schooling last year and will continue in that direction as the
Lord leads.
How and why we
home school...
Home schooling for our family has always
been an eclectic adventure.  I had taught k-4
in a private school using a well known
program. I knew that there was a better way
for out family. After Reading Ruth Beechick's
books the 3 R's.  I jumped in and taught my
first son to read very simply... with some
sound flash cards, a notebook and some Bob
Books and off he went.  By the time my 2nd
was ready to start my 3rd was born and I
need something that was more laid out so we
tried 100 easy lessons.. Which was OK, but it
bugged me .. So we found Pathway Phonics at
the library and it is what I used to finish with
my 2nd and used completely for my 3rd and
4th children along with some simple readers.. I
recommend it to everyone. It is not flashy with
lots of bells and whistles but it works with
about 15 minutes a
day..http://www.dorbooks.com/..
Reading has been a focus for our family. I
haven't always been the best at reading out
loud to my children..I was better when the 1st
two were younger. But we have always
listened to great thing on tape and as they
learned to read  they read real books more
than textbooks. Then while living in France
We all started reading much more, even me.
Life in someways was slower and more
focused and the children more isolated, so we
all read...The only problem was we kept
running out of books,  that is when I learned
about online books from    
http://amblesideonline.org
I had read about the Charlotte Mason
approach for several years, but not until we
were in France did I implement it.  It is still my
method of choice but I don't use it with every
subject.
     This year

Every Year is unique

Here is what we are
doing....This Year..

10th grade:
Bible: We will be reading through several
books and daily devotions:  See our list

Apologia Chemistry with a labs at the
Tulsa Academic Co-op.

IEW writing course through TAC co-op.
If you are interested in IEW contact me
I have friend who sells it.

Math:  Algebra 2  Teaching Textbooks

American History through Historical
Fiction

French and Latin:  We use Rosetta Stone
through the Chattanooga Tenn Library
It cost $30.00, for access per year.

Click here for more French sites

Drama at a community home school
drama course.

4th Grade

Math:  Center for Innovations in
Mathematics Teaching   A free math
program for grades 1-12+
Science: Considering God's Creations

English: Learning Language Arts
Through Literature Orange book
Spelling
Optional
Character Quality Language Arts