Welcome to homeschooling!!! I took Kriston's advice the first year and bought nothing. I made spelling lists out of choices DS picked, math was all hands on and occasional workbooks and lots, lots, lots of free time for him to explore his interests. I took lots of notes on his styles, preferences, etc and then we sat down after a year and came up with a curriculum the 2 of us liked. (We did try an online school in the middle and that was too much). After we agreed on our curriculum it worked great. I didn't have to fight him to do his work because we had an agreement. That was huge for us. So welcome!!!
