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I've used an Old Fashioned Education myself and we always had great success with it! Great site and everything is done for you.
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I've challenged myself this year to build curriculum (ie reading lists, really, but for the younger kids I schedule the readings) exclusively around what we already have at home, plus the Baldwin Project. Every year I look at their lists of books and think, wow, what a treasure mine, and then I forget about them. So this summer I've made time to skim ones that look particularly good and add them to my lists for grades 2, 3, and 8.
So far I've found stories to buddy-read with my 2nd grader, stories to keep my 3rd grader busy while I work with the 2nd grader, no end of poems for copywork, good things to read for seasons/liturgical seasons, and a number of world-history/geography books (China, Japan, Russia, Mexico) for my 8th grader. The youngers are doing MEP for math, and I'm going to use Head of the Class (thanks to whoever posted that link in this thread!) for extra math plus spelling, writing, Spanish and fun stuff for the youngers. Then what budget I do have will go for resources, chiefly for math, for the 8th grader, who's been the kid "on hold" while my oldest did high school.
It's been easy to schedule the reading part -- each child just has a weekly list, and we'll see how quickly or slowly we move through it. I can print out chapters from Baldwin each week and put them in the children's binders for "weekly readers." What I really like about Head of the Class, as I've played around with it, is that it will schedule lessons, give us printable worksheets and flashcards as we want them, and offer interactive online things -- and I don't have to come up with ideas. I've thought we might do simple lapbooks on themes that HOC's science and geography offerings suggest, since the curriculum by itself is a little thin. We've done a couple of their art projects, too, which were fun (and the kind of thing I never get around to doing).
Even this might seem like too much work for someone in Joann's position right now, but I wanted to share, because this thread has inspired me in a big way. Having just graduated one child, I was feeling very burned out on the whole lesson-planning thing, but this free-resources idea has me going again.
So, thanks to everyone!
Sally
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It hasn't been mentioned yet, but have you considered making a request of Book Samaritan?
http://www.thebooksamaritan.com/p/how-does-it-work.html
I would make a list of either programs or plans that are very open and go.
If most of the materials are "do the next page" type of stuff, that alone greatly reduces planning needs.
Sonlight and a few other popular planned out programs that have been around a while might come in used or donated.
It can't hurt to ask and might be a great help.
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Bumping as everyone is planning!
Please add any new FREE resources if you know of any! 
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There's a newer thread about Easy Peasy Homeschool
found here: http://allinonehomeschool.com/
and not a curriculum but free math website https://www.xtramath.org
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Easy Peasy is 100% free. All you need is a computer and printer. It's all there for you-and it's Easy Peasy for MOM, not the kids :). I am using Getting Ready 1 right now, my oldest dd has used Science-Zoology, and I will be using a lot more next year.
You would need to supplement Catechism/Religion, though, because it is Christian but not Catholic. Seton's religion books are fairly inexpensive and there's no need for a teacher's manual.
ETA: I see someone beat me to it .
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4Real Forums : Living Learning
Topic: Packaged curriculum with NO money
