A Word in Season is a language arts instruction curriculum for K-12. The keystone of this curriculum is a four-year high school program that provides an orderly approach to developing language arts skills by integrating western history, literature, and writing.

Learner.org offers many online classes programs and lectures suitable for high-school homeschoolers. I've enjoyed The Art of the Western World. This is a PBS style documentary with vivid detail that is a joy to watch. The program is not produced from a biblical viewpoint so parents should watch it with their children and discuss the various interpretations offered by the program.

Another great help to parents is learner.org's The Mechanical Universe. This complete introduction to high-school and college physics will interest student and parent alike. It's not a rigorous classroom lecture, but another PBS style documentary. Just enough math is provided to motivate the student to dig deeper and interact with the concepts and equations found in traditional "textbook" physics. Study Notes and coordinated textbooks are available for purchase on the site. We haven't seen these personally.

Take advantage of these Arts and Science programs, as well as the dozens of others offered at learner.org.

A wonderful tool for drilling basic math facts. Covers simple counting up through fractions and percent. An inviting, easy to use program in which the student "races" against others to complete the various simple problems. The "others" are their own earlier best times, or those of other players. Our kids enjoy this and learn simple math facts with a fun game they can play for hours.

A simple game with out all the advanced graphics and soundtracks of advanced computer games...

Some of our methods are inspired by the Robinson Curriculum (RC), though we do not use RC directly. RC is a set of CD's containing the complete pages of various older books and classics. The books are in the public domain so are not copyrighted. The CD's contain photocopies of all the books which you read directly from the computer or print at home. A complete K-12 education is provided as the books span all the way from first grade primers up through college level classics...

This program of video classroom lessons combined with the student textbook and answer key is complete introduction to "formal" logic study.  It is essential that students are introduced to the formal principles of reasoning in the middle or early-high school years.  Though Logic is not created but is discovered, and is therefore intuitive in some sense, it is critical that students learn that the truth and validity of statements can be determined analytically.

Another great book by the Bluedorn brothers.  This book, though not a sequel to Fallacy Detective, should be studied after Fallacy Detective, and preferably after a more formal introductory logic program.  Each of the 35 lessons can be done in a single sitting.

This is a perfect introduction into "Logic" study - the very idea of which seems daunting to many parents.  The Bluedorns have a friendly, humourous, yet rigorous and complete way of gently starting your emerging young adult along the road of formal thinking.  Economical, effective, and fun.  A true "must-have" for any middle school education.

Exploring Creation with General Science from Apologia is well suited for grades 7-9.   We cover each module in a set of 5 to 7 lessons, each lesson suitable for about a half-hour of a typical school day.

Comprised of several levels, each level's book has 16 lessons.  Each lesson features several Greek or Latin roots and the English words formed with the root.  Each lesson has 3 sections and a review, so you can do one lesson in a week.  The lessons are grouped in couplets so we prefer to study various sections of 2 lessons over about a 2 week period.  A test booklet and Teacher Guide/Answer Key are also available.

GA Henty historical narrative on the Hugenot persecution.  Great for kids ages 8-16.