Does Robinson Curriculum include read-alouds?
If you think that with a self-teaching home school curriculum you’d have to give up read-alouds, don’t worry. Reading aloud and discussing books can happen (and hopefully does!) no matter what curriculum you use. But, at least for us when we used Robinson Curriculum, I sometimes had more time and energy to read aloud to my children than I did when we were using a more teacher-intensive curriculum. I think I had more energy because I didn’t have to be so busy micro-managing and juggling each of my children’s numerous academic subjects! In sum, the reason for not adding more subjects — whether they are science, geography, history, a foreign language, or something else — is that every time you add something, you have to take that time away from something else. You can’t just keep adding more. I can tell from personal experience that kids who feel overwhelmed with their workload are not very happy campers! I remember how unhappy we were when my 8 year-old daughter felt overwhelmed with a
