What to do when you have multiple grades represented in your home

Just because you have more than 1 child in multiple grades, doesn't mean you have to purchase curriculum for each child for each subject. Multiple grades can learn the same material at varying levels. In my opinion, the only subjects you need to purchase for each child would be their Language and Math.

Science, History, Art, Music, Bible and Health can easily combine grade levels making life a lot less complicated for you. This can work well especially for younger grades. If you are reading great literature to your children for History, all of them can listen in. The younger children might listen better if they have Legos to play with or are allowed to draw or do a puzzle. My 14 year old still does puzzles during our reading time.

Enjoy your children at their individual ages, but realize that they can enjoy the same material. If you have them write about what you learned as a group or if they have a project assigned to them, that is where you can require more detail for the older children.

You can all study weather, plants, animals, the Civil War, etc. at the same time. Older children can have projects or writing or extra reading to reinforce the concepts you want them to learn.

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