Landmark's Freedom

We discovered Landmark's Freedom last year at our homeschool convention. Overall, we enjoyed the curriculum. Here are the specifics...

Bible

We bought 2nd grade Bible for Chris. The first day he worked on vocabulary. He liked learning how to look words up in the glossary. The next 2 days were stories with some questions following about the story. I found it was more effective and easier for him to remember the details if I paraphrased, rather than reading the story word-for-word. The 4th day was review, which, I have to say, was a bit challenging for him...and even me at times. The 5th day was a quiz, which, again was challenging.

We bought 6th grade for Corey and Chandler, because it was an overview of all the books of the Bible. Again, the first day was vocabulary, which they did fine on. The 2nd day was reading a survey of a couple of books of the Bible, along with a passage from one of those books. The third day was questions from their reading. They did fine on the part that was from the survey, but I think because we used a different version (NIV verses KJV), they struggled with that part. The 4th day was review, and the 5th day was a quiz.

We started out using the Bible memory verses suggested, but towards the end of the year I assigned verses about particular issues we were dealing with.

History

We used the history program for Chris in 2nd grade. He enjoyed getting to know a little about each of our Presidents....and could name them in order! I discovered some interesting facts that I hadn't known, too. And I memorized the Presidents right along with Chris.

The only negative thing I would say about the history is that some of the questions they asked were a little too detailed.

English

We bought the English for Chris as well. There was a lot of writing in it, which was challenging in the beginning. But by the end of the year he was doing well. I thought it was a good curriculum. He learned the basics in an easy-to-understand format.

We also used the English curriculum for Kaelyn (11th grade). She was challenged by the amount of writing, but it was good for her. We both thought some of the writing topics were odd.

Science

We used 2nd grade science for Chris. I found it was easier if I paraphrased some of the information in these books as well. We did learn some interesting facts about bugs and sea creatures!

We used 6th grade science for Corey and 7th grade science for Chandler. Like the Bible, they started with vocabulary the first day. Then they had reading, questions, and a review. They closed out the week with a quiz. They both liked the curriculum well enough, although we agreed that it didn't provide enough experiments as we would have liked.

In summary, I would recommend Landmark's Freedom for those who like workbooks. It's not as hands-on as we would like.