Resource Description
Under the Home offers studio art, art history, music, mathematics, reading, writing, prose, and poetry for grades K-1 as well as science, geography, and history for grade 1. They will be adding grades 2-5 over the years 2017 & 2018. As of January 2017 the price is $30/year.
Website: Under the Home (may contain affiliate links)
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Cons: Not secular, not hard enough for gifted learners
Grades Used: Kindergarten and second grade
This is our first year using Under the Home instead of Ambleside Online. We are using it for kindergarten and second grade. My children are familiar with the reading and phonics material from AO used likewise by UtH. The already embedded links and videos make UtH superior for ease of use, even on the road. A bunch of notebooks is necessary, which is A-OK by us as we have read the Pencil is Mightier than the Keyboard research. My second grader didn't like the dry style of AO composer and artist study that lacks the enrichment activities UtH has for art history and music. Like AO, UtH science is only nature for the younger grades. And only living, not geological either. I'm a geologist by trade, so only studying bugs and birds is lacking challenge to me, so we supplement with studying diet of the creatures, where that diet grows, soil/rock, and minerals necessary. Children don't need to be dumbed down, and UtH doesn't challenge as much as it exposes children to new ideas and thinking. I feel a challenging long term project instead of weekly new activity then forget it, would be better. Maybe after this term we will migrate to project based learning with UtH as the guide for subject matter. See and create a river, from natural materials, Legos, and paint, not just watch a video, visit, and read about it. I would recommend Under the Home for traveling families, single parents, people who can only homeschool at the library three days a week, and who are just too busy to work one on one with their children. It's honestly going great for my two schoolers and myself with nursing/EC newborn, and husband working at home. Just not challenging and long term holding the children accountable for their learn. Also, as of 2020-2022 this curriculum is entirely free. I've never seen it cost anything either, so other reviews are incorrect on that price.