KONOS definitely works with the wiggle! You can do/plan as much or little as you want, but there aren’t plans that tell you what to do or say each step. UNLESS you get the in-the-box version. There are available in attentiveness, obedience, orderliness and then two country units on Africa and Russia. I am planning loosely (very) right now, but have planned everything out to the T before. We are reading the suggested books from my home library or the public library, the children are narrating from the reading and we are doing some of the activities straight out of the book. Most right now are just discussion and dramatizing but we will do a few artsy things next week. I read out loud a lot to the crew while they sit (I started to say quietly, but really they are hanging upside down or sideways or are coloring pages that go along with our lessons or are playing with blocks, etc. Each child (those who read) also has some assigned reading. We love it, but I really haven’t tried much else. We went the classical route for about 3 months and we were all in tears. Trying now to eliminate most paper work except for what the kids create themselves with copywork, dictation or narration instead of spelling sheets and grammar worksheets. Check out the website. Jessica is still recovering from a MAJOR auto accident this spring and is taking physical and speech therapy. So hard to comprehend that she is having some speech difficulties. She is probably one of the most eloquent speakers I have ever heard!

We do unit studies sometimes (sort of). We used Weaver Curriculum 1 yr. I liked the way she laid everything out, but my two problems ended up being: 1) It was cost prohibitive to buy all the suplemental materials that she used (and I had little success finding them in the library most of the time), and 2) I found that I wanted to spend more time, or get more detailed with some things – picture me looking at the curriculum overview going “Volcanos are WAY more interesting than this.”, and then running out to the library and picking out 4 neat looking books about volcanos and doing it all myself. Sooo, after one year that’s what I did for everything. I’d pick something that I, or one of the other girls thought would be neat to learn about, then we go get books from the library and tie in other subjects. History about whatever it is. There’s usually some type of Science you can find out about it even if it’s not a ’science’ topic. English could be having them write about it (punctuation, hadwriting, etc.) and I’ve even found math worksheets online to tie into the topic – the girls really loved the math word problems I found one year to go with a study on the solar system. It’s pretty much whatever I want to do, and if I hit a mental road block I’d ask the girls to make a list of things they wanted to learn about, and we’d work through those. They’d get really excited when it came time to learn about something they picked out.

Try checking out this link http://www.homeschoolshare.com/
it has some great ideas at my favourite price – free!

I recommend efantasmic.com The units are very thorough, and last I checked they have about 350 available. Their units are all based upon books that can be found in the library or videos that you watch for free online. The price is very, very reasonable!