Grade 1 Curriculum .... all ready to go!!!

for Math:

• Counting with Numbers (Rod & Staff)
• Learning numbers with Spunky (the Donkey)
• MEP (free online)
  

for Language Arts: Pathway Readers and accompanying workbooks

• First Steps w workbook
• Days go by w workbook
• More days go by w workbook

for Phonics:

• Learning Through Sounds book 1
• Learning through sounds book 2
• Before we Read
• Climbing to Good English

for Spelling:

• 1st Spelling Book

for Penmanship:

• Pentime Manuscript book 2

for Seatwork Extras if needed:

• Everywhere we go (Rod & Staff)

Also in my possession I have:

Complete Canadian Curriculum for grade 1

• Math
• Language
• Social Studies
• Science

for History:

• http://www.lessonpathways.com/
• maps & globes
• continents
• oceans
• rivers, lakes & mountains
• Native americans
• Journey to a New World
• Colonies
• around the world
• Africa
• USA & Canada
• Pocahontas
• The Calendar
• King Tut & the Nile
• Seven wonders of the world
• so much more

for Science:

• http://www.lessonpathways.com/
• http://www.internet4classrooms.com/skills_1st_science_new.htm
  

I also plan on incorporating some of the CM books again this year... it just works really well for us and how we homeschool.

Teach Your Child to Read in 100 Easy Lessons

Teach Your Child to Read in 100 Easy Lessons, by Engelmann, Haddox, and Bruner is the book I have been using kind of to teach my daughter to read and learn the alphabet. But I am not using it in the way the book was meant to be used not at all. Here is how I am using it.

I took some cue cards/blank recipe cards purchased from the dollar store and a black sharpie and I put all the different letters and combinations on the cue cards that they teach. Complete with blend so she could see how to say them. I did all 44 letters/blends and every day we would do some cue cards... nothing hard core because I like to keep things simple with her. She prefers that and it is much less stress when your dealing with a 4 year old. So every day we are adding more and more cue cards until she can do them all without prompting.

After she is done with the letters/blends then we will go on to the words they have in the book. I will just take my cues from her. If she can say the blends without prompting then it is time to go onto the words.

This book is available at most libraries I have found and it is a wonderful resource to use to make up the cue cards and not do the lessons. Mind you some people have had wonderful luck with the lessons it just isnt' something my daughter can handle and I know that so I just changed it up for us.

Box Day!!!!!!!!

Box day was officially July 9th....
(due to a death in my family we didn't get it open and looked at until yesterday)

The box has arrived!

Shaylin showing how excited she is about the box being here.
She can hardly wait to get started.

I love having my week laid out of me. It makes it so much easier to
plan my life.

The books are all on the shelf we bought at Ikea on Monday.

For those who don't remember our curriculum is Sonlight.

Curriculum Decision... DONE

After much prayer and research... ugh.. totally researched out I tell you we have decided to order the Sonlight P4/5 for September. We are just going to do math basics this year and start with Math U See Primer for next year Primer level. I can't tell you how excited I am about this!!!!

I plan on continuing with lapbooks on the books we will be reading and what we will be covering in the Sonlight curriculum. My daughter loves lapbooks way to much to give them up. She just loves seeing the final product.