Sonlight.

After looking through all the options for homeschooling that we could, we've decided to go with Sonlight. Sonlight has always been my first choice, but looking at the website it seemed impossible to do. It's pretty expensive for our budget. So I decided just to do what I could afford. But then a precious friend of mine told me that she uses Sonlight, and hardly pays anything for it. She showed me what to do, and now we are happily heading into the school year with a curriculum we are super excited about. (The only thing I'm not using from Sonlight is Science. I'll post about it later). Now, I will say, I have had to spend more than my friend does, but she's involved in a coop and has been homeschooling longer so she has more options to borrow stuff from others. I have found that it's all in being able to take the time and look for the stuff online and at local used book stores.Yes, it's much easier to just buy the whole lot from Sonlight directly, but if you are on a tight budget like us it's totally worth it!

Here is a picture of everything we have purchased so far.It's all our Language Arts, History, Math, and Science. I'm missing a few things that I don't need just yet, and things I can get from the library. I'm also looking into some kind of Art program for them, and hopefully at some point very soon can get them in piano lessons.

If we were to have bought all of our stuff at retail price we would've paid: $1265.30
But by buying everything used online(ebay,homeschoolclassifieds.com, amazon) and at local used books stores. We've only spent: $421.29 That's a savings of: $844.01!! Awesome!!

Thankful we learned how to do this at a much cheaper cost! We are so excited about this school year!!