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Does anyone know of a curriculum for multi-ages? I know there is Tapestry of Grace and FIAR but are there any others? I have a large crew to hs and want to combine as many subjects together as possible. I will have a K, 2, 4, 7th(special needs) and an 11th, who will do her own thing. I want to try to combine history, science, art, music and religion. ANy ideas?
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Lisa,
There are many types of curriculum that can be used by all of your children, or tweaked to use with them. Here are several that I have looked into, or heard about in my years of studying curriculum:
Learning Adventures
History Links
Cadron Creek
Sonlight
Mater Amabilis- EXCELLENT and FREE! 
Winter Promise
That's all I can think of right now. I hope this helps you some anyway to be able to look into something and pray about something that will work great for your family.
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My friend did Konos and I did one week of it to test drive it. It was a big jump from what I was used to. It's a unit study (with the units arranged by virtue I believe) and we use MODG, but we had a really good time.
One thing I liked was that there is one day a week where you do a project with another family. We built an ear that you could crawl through for our week studying hearing which came under the unit on attentiveness. The kids and the other mom and I had a blast.
I'm planning on just buying the History's Heros stuff for next year. You get to build a potato cannon. I know my boys will love that.
I've been having a hard time getting the page to load lately. I don't know why.
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I also have had a hard time combining dc (ours are 12th grade, 8th grade, 5th grade, 3rd grade, and K/first and a toddler) so will be watching responses for ideas to help us more.
So far we have found CHC helpful (most materials cover the same basic concepts in the same sequence for every grade so the presentation could be for all together as could all supplemental, fun activities. With us we tend to see the 3rd and 5th grader sharing some activities, and younger ones joining is as interest and attention span allow (but we don't do anything formal with them and don't worry much before 7/8 yo. The 5th grader and 8th grader share interest in history so come up with projects.
We use the A Year With God from CHC and chose activities to mark feast days and seasons from here and have this done as a family for a hands-on religion (and break from the Faith and Life).
Even if dc are not studying from the same book, I try to make sure we are covering some of the same concepts in key areas - IE in history, everybody does American History the same year, etc. I might use plans for a grade (above or below or even a few above or below) to make sure this happens.
We've found science a little harder to combine (mostly because I'm a lousy science person myself and don't know what to do with it). However, I have found that with the elementary ages, if I go with a really good hands on, well layed out text, the younger dc seem to just jump in and that is good enough for them. So far the CHC science for 3rd grade has worked well with our 3rd grader and below (the others don't do any question and answer type stuff in this but they do participate in discussion and experiments according to interest).
I think finding a spine that works well for your 4th grader and building around that might be helpful. The best thing we did was purchase a whole bunch of easy reading books in the content areas (American History and Science and Saints to go along with the Literature/reading that we already have. We have found that younger dc are inspired by conversations, projects of the older and end up jumping in - and then you already have easily accessible books to strew and make it work. Our 5th graders love of History combined with 8th graders research and reading led to draw the other dc into some basic knowledge, while 2nd grader went crazy with experiment books sitting around and then inspired everyone else and gave an assesment of his older brother's science text experiments (they worked better). Before long all the boys had their own plants growing, etc.
Hope some of this helps - even though it is not a specific program.
Janet
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Thanks for the ideas everyone. I actually have seen someone's Konos and it looks great but I think with having a toddler and baby that I would not have time for all of the prep work and it seems a bit teacher intensive. Thanks again!
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