Kindergarten
Curriculum
This was my first year of homeschooling and I was
treading on unknown territory. I was
petrified so I contacted their old Christian school that they had been
attending and asked what curriculum they were going to be using for my kids
ages next year and that is where I began.
As you can see through the year I made some changes and for the
following school year even more changes.
Language Arts – Abeka for phonics,
spelling, and handwriting
Math- Started with Addison Wesley but he finished
rather quickly and so we then moved on to Saxon K which was too easy so we
finished up the year completing Saxon Math 1 (which I would recommend starting
with)
Science – We started using Abeka for
Science/History but was such a joke so he tagged along and participated in big
brother’s science and history for the remainder of the year. We also just ended up going to the library
and reading about the topics that were supposed to be covered in the Abeka book
but were just so simplistic and my kids found it to be boring.
History- Started with Abeka but ended up using
books from the library to coincide with topics to be covered. We focused on our state study, basic map
skills, and famous people in history.
Health- Used Abeka and we did use this throughout
the year but ended up finding more books at the library to add to it since it
was too basic.
Art- Draw
Write Now using various of their books
Music- Learning to read notes and playing the
recorder
Computer- Working with Kid Pix program (my
kids really enjoyed this and it was a lot of fun)
Bible- Used various books but focused on: Salvation, Creation, Life of Christ, Studies
on Samuel, David, Elijah, Esther & Daniel, also Parables and we memorized
bible verses and songs
3rd Grade
Curriculum
Language Arts- Used Abeka Basal
readers, also read: Little House in the
Big Woods, Charlotte’s Web, The Whipping Boy, Winn Dixie, Farmer’s Boy &
Pilgrim’s Progress (Abeka)
Grammar- Shurley English 3
Spelling- Spelling Workout by Modern
Curriculum Press
Handwriting- Zaner Bloser cursive
Math- Saxon 3 & 54 (finished quickly and so we
breezed through both)
Science- used Abeka’s text Exploring God’s
World but was way too basic so we ended up adding more reading from the library
along with writing reports and activities to go along with it.
Health- Abeka’s Health Safety and Manners, again
too simplistic so we added more reading using books from the library to add and
go more in depth.
History- Used Bob Jones Heritage Studies 3
(hated it very boring) we ended up throwing it to the side and just used the
ideas and went in depth reading books from the library as well.
Art- Draw
Write Now using various of their books
Music- Learning to read notes and playing the
recorder
Computer- Working with Kid Pix program (my
kids really enjoyed this and it was a lot of fun)
Bible- Used various books but focused on: Salvation, Creation, Life of Christ, Studies
on Samuel, David, Elijah, Esther & Daniel, also Parables and we memorized
bible verses and songs
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