Us

We are a family of 5. Dad/husband Wayne age 37, Mom/wife Marie age 39, Son Thomas age 7, Daughter Mari age 5 and Daughter Irene age 1. We have a yellow lab age 10 and hundreds of red wiggler worms. They live in a rubbermaid tub in our son's bedroom as a compost/science experiment. We live in suburban Minnesota. Wayne works for a large corporation. Marie is at home, homeschooling the children and doing other things necessary to run a household. We began homeschooling our children when they first arrived, however we didn't realize it at the time. Formally, we began homeschooling in 2003 when our eldest child turned 5.

Our first years we used a literature based approach curriculum, primarily Five in a Row. We supplemented that with numerous things that we have around the house. In addition, we used the math curriculum by MathUSee. Currently we are using the curriculum by My Father's World called Countries to Cultures. We are also using MathUSee, Spelling by Sound and Structure, the Rosetta Stone French Language course offered through our local library and multiple other things we have in our library for English etc.