Yes! Use textbooks.

I just concluded an extended test of Choice Boards.  Here, here, and here are examples.  Our fourth grade grandson, Paul, is enrolled in a local public school.  (We home-school a close friend’s daughter and teach Co-op science classes.). Paul spent a total of four hours each week completing a week’s worth of schooling. The assignments were very disparate.

Paul also spent three 1/2 hours each morning on my curriculum.  I am even more convinced kids need a dedicated, consistent, coherent curriculum, not the latest education fad.  Here  is our schedule.  You know what works?  Textbooks, journals, and workbooks.  The textbooks are all traditional.  We use an older Reading Anthology, here, with a wide variety of literature.

What are we using?  English includes the following: Reading, Vocabulary Workshop, Grammar, and Handwriting.  Science is Chemistry and Physics; History is Sea to Shining Sea.  Yes, we use the Journaling Notebook for Science and the Workbook for History.  Math is Saxon 6/5.  Will we finish everything this summer? Probably not.  But, Paul will be much better positioned in the Fall.