Mom of Many: Homeschool Complete: A TOS Crew Review

Thursday, March 7, 2019

Homeschool Complete: A TOS Crew Review

Ho meschool Complete

Everything you need to teach your K-4th grade student in one place! We have been exploring Fourth Grade Comple t e, the first semester of a year long program that includes Language Arts, Math, Social Studies, Science, Fine Arts, Physical Development, Fitness, Character Development, and Bible, all centered around thematic units.

Homeschool Complete is an easy-to-use curriculum, it arrives as a 2 part downloadable PDF. It comes with a comprehensive , 690 page PDF Teacher Edition that contains detailed, step-by-step instructions and lesson plans for a full year of teaching. The Student Workbook, 270 pages contains all the printable workbook pages in one place.

Subject areas and detailed content lists let you see exactly what you will be covering. The year is broken down into thematic units. Here is a peek at the Table of Contents:

As you can see, level 4 will cover Back to school, Southeast States, Baseball, Penguins, Tall Tales, World War I, Behavior and Economics in this edition. We truly love unit study learning, where every subject ties to a central theme. The author, Debra Arbuthnot, has chosen interesting topics for the grade level. My tester was constantly discovering new things!

The lesson plan format helps you create an effective learning routine by incorporating a daily opening, language arts, math, Bible and special subjects. The Teacher Guide offers practical tips for planning, organization/scheduling and even setting up your school area.

Each lesson is clearly outlined, step-by-step with many student workbook pages included My tester is the type of kid who would sit down to do worksheets...for FUN. So, this format would work well. However, I do have several kids that would rather eat spinach than complete a workbook page. You need to know your student's style to know if this approach would work for them. Samples are available here.

The Teacher Guide is scripted to walk you step-by-step through each lesson. I found printing all the worksheets for the lesson first from the Student Workbook, worked well for us. If you are nervous about homeschooling, or trying it for the first time, this program will make it easy for you to cover all the subjects! I wish I had started with a program like this. It's all straightforward and organized in a logical way.

One downside, for us, was that the math level was quite a bit below my tester's. She's more advanced, but the math workbook pages in this curriculum provided great review and practice for speeding up on her math facts.

The Appendix offers an extensive collection of extra printables, games, rubrics and more. These were some of our favorites! Not only for school, but also for just having fun. Laminate them, and you can use them over and over.

This program incorporates quality children's literature and books to help instill a love of learning in your child. A quick trip to the library will get you what you need. I did have a challenge finding some of the listed books, but the author offers additional titles. The literature portions were my favorite. Even though it appeared simple, the depth of information for my tester was impressive.

By using a variety of low-cost supplies, all listed on handy supply lists, you can have everything you need readily available for your day.

Homeschool Complete seeks to appeal to all your learners with a full variety of activities for each learning style - seeing, hearing, and doing. The program incorporates art and music activities as well.

If you are looking for a solid program, without a lot of extras, this one is for you. You will need access to a library, and a good printer. The topics are varied and interesting. We were impressed.

In addition to the Complete programs, they offer a variety of Unit Studies. These Unit Studies follow the same structure as the Complete programs by integrating all subjects around a interesting theme, but they only take 1-3 weeks to complete. Be sure to check out the Crew Reviews!