FAQ | Wisdom Wonder Project

Whether you are just beginning or you’ve been homeschooling or teaching for a long time, we are sure that you have a few questions for us. We’re guessing these might be a few of them:

For all of our curriculum collections, we encourage you to invest in the Collection Materials (this list is found in your Collection Overview at the beginning of each monthly unit) which will be used throughout your homeschool career and across multiple subjects. You will need all of the standards such as watercolors, tempera paints, paper, paintbrushes, school glue, pencils, markers, and crayons. We always try to recommend quality products that will last a long time and have many uses. Each month there will be some additional materials needed (which you can purchase, borrow or possibly substitute with other materials you already have on hand), which will vary quite a bit from month to month and by subject.

For Little Wonders Literature, you should plan to purchase or borrow four books per month. For Little Wonders Block Play and Art units, you will work through one book per month.

For Young Scholars History/Literature, plan to purchase your Story of the World book and an additional four supplemental books per month. For Science units, plan to purchase or borrow one main book for each yearly collection, and an additional book per month. Young Masters will just require one book per month.

Every family’s homeschool (co-op, classroom, etc) is different! Some families set aside 2-4 hours every day on very focused schoolwork, and some families do it differently. We do provide a suggested schedule in each of our curriculum collections, but it’s just that–a suggestion that may or may not be helpful to you. We encourage you to take education at a pace that works for you, which may shift and change through the seasons and subjects.

Although the differences may seem subtle if you compare Little Wonders units from different levels side by side, there are significant developmental shifts that happen in these young years so we felt that they warranted writing separate curriculum for each year. For instance, in our Block Play units, you will see that children transition from free play with blocks into buildings, then enclosures, and in the Kindergarten level you will see them move into more representational building. Our curriculum writers (who are also homeschool moms and teachers) have a wealth of knowledge to draw from as you move through the three Little Wonders levels.

There are a lot of practical factors we have to consider when planning future curriculum development. For now, we’ll just say that it is our desire to release new curriculum over the next several years for each level, eventually building out to each history cycle for every level. Our project is a huge endeavor, and the time and resources we put into each monthly unit of curriculum is considerable. We will keep customers and email subscribers appraised of our plans to develop new curriculum.

First of all, it's important to familiarize yourself with your state or country’s laws about homeschooling, as most education policy is formed at the state or local government level. This is a good website to start with for California: https://www.cde.ca.gov/sp/ps/.

Find a great group of like-minded families and build a community. We have a global community building inside our online forum, and we also host regular local get-togethers and field trips to help families build connections and learn from one another.

When it comes to choosing a curriculum, everyone is different. Of course we think ours is the best and the most beautiful on the market, but the best way to find out if it fits is to try it out, and we encourage you to do the same with any curriculum resource! We always offer plenty of samples to try out to make sure that our curriculum is what you’re looking for, which are accessible here on our website (or can be requested through our contact page).

Wisdom Wonder Project is an approved vendor for many charter schools including Inspire, Heartland, Sage & Oak and Pacific Charter Institute. We are happy to complete the vetting process and work with all charter schools to ensure that your funds will cover the cost of your curriculum. If you are with a charter and would like to have your education funds cover the cost of our curriculum and supplies, ask your education coordinator, vendor relations or teacher to contact us by emailing [email protected].