Curriculum and our year ahead 2013/14

Welcome back to the Homeschool Help Series. For the next six weeks six homeschool bloggers from around the globe will be your host.  Today we will be sharing the curriculum we are using for 2013/14.

I have been home educating for  15 years and really love quality literature with a Wholehearted Child / Charlotte Mason Approach.  This year life has become rather busy and as much as I would like to put together my own curriculum I find I just do not have the energy to pull through so I am using a Sonlight Core B as my spine with a few eclectic things added in.



Our Year Ahead

Language Arts

• Explode the Code Book 2 and Book 3
• Spelling Workout A by Modern Curriculum Press.
• We are doing copywork from Favorite Poems of Childhood.
• Poetry: Favorite Poems of Childhood
• A Reason for Writing Book A

Readers

• I Can Read It! Book 1
• I Can Read It! Book 2
• I Can Read It! Book 3
• Put Me in the Zoo
• Little Bear
• A Fly Went By
• The Cat in the Hat
• Green Eggs and Ham
• A Big Ball of String
• The Bravest Dog Ever
• The Best Trick

Read Alouds

• Charlotte's Web 
•  Henry Huggins
• Gooney Bird Greene 
• The Wheel on the School 
• The Year of Miss Agnes 
• Homer Price 
• Greek Myths for Young Children 
• Mr. Popper's Penguins 
• Mountain Born 
• Understood Betsy 
• Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle 
• Detectives in Togas 
• Little Pear 
• Owls in the Family 
• The Case of the Gasping Garbage 
• It Could Always Be Worse 

History / Geography

• The Usborne Time Traveler
• Tut's Mummy Lost & Found
• Houses and Homes
• Peoples of the World
• George Muller
• Archaeologists Dig For Clues
• The Greek News
• The Great Wall of China
• Roman Diary
• The Usborne Book of World History
• A Child's History of the World
• The Geography Book
• We will continue on occasion with Expedition Earth

Science

•  Pasteur's Fight Against Microbes
• Space 
• Discover & Do Level 1 DVD 
• First Encyclopedia of the Human Body 
• See How It's Made 
• What Makes You Ill? 
• Science Activities, Vol. 1 
• The Magic School Bus at the Waterworks 
• Why Do People Eat? 
• The Usborne World Of Animals 
• Night Animals
• Science Activity/Notebooking Pages

Math

•  We will play with Pattern Blocks and work our way through Patternables and Pattern Block Cards.
• Exploring Arithmetic 3 by Rod and Staff.
• CalcuLadder 1 and 2 These are part of the Learning Vitamins series.  I love these math drill work packs.

Bible

•  For our devotional we will be reading through Leading Little Ones to God by Marian M. Schoolland.
• Listening to Sing the Word: A New Commandment, Hide 'Em in your heart Vol 1 and Vol 2 by Steve Green.
• Praying through Akebu to Zapotec
• Reading Missionary Stories with the Millers
• Studying God's Word Book C and Book B

Fine Arts

• Music Appreciation: SQUILT Vol 1 Baroque Era (Super Quiet UnInterrupted Listening Time) This is a digital product written by Mary from Homegrown Learners and covers ten pieces of music along with notebooking pages, musical term definition and musical history.
• I will be using The World's Greatest Composers by Confessions of a Homeschooler.
• The Classical Kids Collection Vol 1 & 2. These are produced by The Children's Group and cover the lives of eight famous composers.
• Classical Composers Monthly as a supplement to whichever composer we are studying.
• We will continue with The World's Greatest Artists Vol 1 in which we will cover eight artists.  We have already studied Monet and will continue and learn about the other seven artists in the unit.
• We did Shipwrecked earlier in the year and really enjoyed it so we will work our way through Bible Stories by See the Light

What will you be using this coming year for your homeschool ?  If you are in need of some inspiration don't forget to pop on over to see what the Homeschool Help bloggers are planning for 2013/14

Blessings
Chareen

This week

• Bernadette over at Barefoot Hippie Girl: Radical Changes
• Julie from Highhill Homeschool: Curriculum 2013-2014
• Savannah from Hammock Tracks shares New Curriculum - A Grammar Year
• Lucinda over at Navigating by Joy Making Up Our Homeschool Curriculum 
• Nicole over at One Magnificent Obsession : Somethings Old, Somethings New: Curriculum Edition

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