- My Father's World Exploration-1850. This will cover Bible, History, Science, Art, Music.
- Language Arts we will be using MFW recommended resources for all but spelling. My 3rd grader will be using Language Lessons for Today for 3rd grade, and Modern Style Cursive connections along with All About Spelling. She will also be using the suggestions from the back of the teachers guide for readers. My 5th grader will be using Intermediate Language Lessons this year along with Writing Strands level 3. He is also continuing All About Spelling and readers from the back of the teachers manual.
- Teaching Textbooks 5 and trying out Life of Fred Fractions for my 5th grader, and TT 4 for my 3rd grader.
- Noah has been struggling a little more in math so since he is almost done with TT5 we are supplementing in some Singapore Math with Life of Fred Fractions.
Kindergarten Plans
- This year I am doing something totally different than in the past, Abeka streaming. My main reason for switching is distractions. I am constantly being distracted by little ones needing help or big ones needing help and I think she will be able to learn with less of these distractions. So, instead of me being teacher mommy all the time, I will be cheerleader mommy. I like this idea and have seen other big families use Abeka online successfully so, fingers crossed. So far it has worked out well.
Spring 2014/Fall2015
So
since I spend so much time with the big kids I thought it would be nice
to have something structured to do with my little ones. Therefore, I
purchased Little Hands to Heaven to do with them. We have had a busy
week so have only done a few days worth of activities, but my 2 little
ones are having a blast!Kayla, my 1st grader is still finishing up Little Hearts For His Glory so we have about 8 or 9 weeks till she moves up to the next guide so hopefully we can get into a little groove before we move her on up too.
For Language Arts we are using the recommended Rod & Staff 4 along
with Drawn Into the Heart of Reading with the boys grade 4/5 pack. Rod
& Staff truthfully isn't fluffy and pretty but it is solid and I
love learning grammar along with my little guy. Grammar is the one part
of school I never really cared for but now we are both learning so much.
We are loving DITHOR also. We tried this program in 2nd grade but he
wasn't really ready for it. We had finished phonics, but were still just
getting into reading longer books. Now reading and comprehension are
going better and he is ready for DITHOR.
Science is real nice this year also. In HOD's guide Bigger Hearts for His Glory science becomes independent. So, this year Noah is doing it independently which is nice. I found some great notebook pages to go along with science and the independent history portions, along with other things that complement the program so we have a nice notebook going and it makes his independent work a little easier and nicer looking overall. Finally, Preparing starts working more towards independence in history and you can purchase the Deluxe Package that contains 12 extra books for independent work that corresponds with the time you are studying in history.
We have started the first book which is Draw and Write Through History:
Creation to Jonah and is amazing. I love that Noah is getting extra
practice writing and learning to draw some great pictures at the same
time.Finally, what is school without some great read alouds. A couple of these books we have read, but it has been a while so I think they will all be hits :) We are so excited to get this new school year started. It is taking a little more time than last, but I think once we get into our groove it will go a lot quicker :)
Finally, for math we are going back to Teaching Textbooks 4. I love this program and it gives me a little more freedom since he can do this on his own. I do love Singapore math, but this is a good fit for ds.
Fall 2013
So....new year has begun. It took some tweaking, but I think we finally have something that will fit for us. DD also is doing better with her attention span so I think we will be joining the older 2 together again, but this time I am pretty sure it will work :) (update: it didn't work lol)
So we are going to be using Sonlight (SL) Core C along with Story of the World 2 (SOTW 2). I know that some of SL will be over dd head so we are adding in tons of fun books from the library that come from the Story of the World Activity Guide!! These additions have been a big hit and even my 3 year old sticks around for some of the books.
We are also using some of SL Science C for both kids and adding in some of Adventures with atoms and molecules which is amazing. I have found that I have a hard time following an instructor guide so even though we are using a lot of Sonlight stuff and I have the IG, we really aren't following it. For history we are following more of SOTW guide and it seems to be fitting my style more.
Also, I am attempting to throw in some Art this year but I don't know if we will be doing it. I have Drawing with Children but I haven't really gotten into it yet. It isn't quite as open and go as I had hoped so I might have to have Tony help me out in the art department since he has taken art classes in college :PThe rest of their subjects will be separate since Noah is in 3rd grade and Kayla 1st. So here's the rest:
NOAH:
Language Arts: First Language Lessons 3
Writing with Ease 2
All About Spelling (finishing 2 and hope to start 3)Handwriting Without Tears cursive
Sonlight Readers 4/5
Math: Singapore math 3 with some Life of Fred for fun
KAYLA:
Little Hearts for His Gloryby HOD
Getty-Dubay Handwriting book B
The Reading Lesson and some of Sonlight readers 1
Math: Singapore Math 1 finish and some of Horizons math 1 with LOF for fun.
So that is the plan for this year. I am notorious for changing things but I feel confident that I can probably keep it up...now all I have to do is take some pics of the kids ;)
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