Curricula for 2012

Sonlight Core A

We will be using the 5 day Sonlight Core A with Grade K readers over the next year exploring and introducing Sir N to new cultures etc.

The House at Pooh Corner
The Story of Dr. Dolittle
The Story About Ping
The Arnold Lobel Book of Mother Goose
The Llama Who Had No Pajama
Richard Scarry's Please and Thank You Book
Johnny Appleseed
Capyboppy
My Father's Dragon COMPLETED
Dolphin Adventure
The Light at Tern Rock
The Apple & the Arrow
A Grain of Rice
The Hundred Dresses
Twenty and Ten
The Boxcar Children COMPLETED
In Grandma's Attic
Five True Dog Stories
Family Under the Bridge
James Herriot's Treasury for Children
Dolphin Treasure
Mary on Horseback
Egermeier's Bible Story Book
Sonlight's Create-A-Calendar
Wild Places
Living Long Ago
Usborne Internet-Linked Children's Encyclopedia
I Heard Good News Today
Fun Tales

Sonlight Language Arts for K readers

	Language and Thinking for Young Children
	My First Picture Dictionary
	BINGO Markers
	Alphabet Sounds BINGO Cards
	Go A to Z!

		Get Ready for the Code COMPLETED
		Get Set for the Code COMPLETED
		Go for the Code

Sonlight Science A - 5 Day

		Weather COMPLETED
		How Flowers Grow
		Isaac Newton and the Laws of Motion
		Science Activities, Vol. 2
		Discover & Do Level K DVD
		Under the Sea
		Caterpillars and Butterflies
		Eggs and Chicks
		Tadpoles and Frogs COMPLETED

Expedition Earth

I will also be using Expedition Earth: A Journey through God's World. We are not using this weekly but rather as an extra when we want to learn about a country.

Timeline

I want to make a time line note book using these time line figures I purchased from Home School in the Woods. My goal is to have this time line book for the complete duration of Sir N's schooling. I will be posting about how I made his book and what we did together with it. I will be following Amy Pack's detailed instructions to make a portable timeline using a sketch book.

Maths

We are currently working through Singapore Math Kindy .  I am looking at switching to Abeka Arithmatic 1 when we are done, with an aim of going to Teaching Text Books when Sir N is around 9.

		Singapore Earlybird Math KA Textbook COMPLETED
		Singapore Earlybird Math KB Textbook COMPLETED
		Pattern Blocks
		Patternables
		Pattern Block Cards

Developing the Early Learner

	PR011	Developing the Early Learner, Volume I COMPLETED
	PR012	Developing the Early Learner, Volume II COMPLETED
	PR013	Developing the Early Learner, Volume III
	PR014	Developing the Early Learner, Volume IV

Music  

This year Nathaniel will be listening to Hide em in Your Heart Vol 1 & 2 by Steve Green as well as The Classical Kids Collection Vol 1 & 2.  To read more about these and listen to some samples click on the picture of below.

 

Worlds Greatest Artists

  The World's Greatest Artists Vol 1 (and the best part is it's FREE). I have been watching her children's adventures and thought that Sir N might enjoy doing some of those things. I downloaded the FREE instructors guide which contains: Lesson plans for each, week Lap Book printables, Artist Notebooking page, Art Puzzles and Artist Flashcards.

The source books are from the series: Getting to Know the worlds Greatest Artists by Mike Venezia. Six of the eight books arrived in the mail today and I spent a while looking through them and I confess I am impressed.  One or two of the pictures I don't want to show Sir N but I will simply cover them with a sheet of paper, however the information about the artist and their style is excellent.  What I know about the art community and art appreciation is minimal so I will be learning alongside Sir N on this journey.

The eight artist you will meet in the series are:

• Pablo Picasso
• Vincent Van Gogh
• Jackson Pollock
• Claude Monet
• Henry Matisse
• Georgia O’keefe
• Michelangelo
• Leonardo Da Vinci

That's a summary of what we will be doing over the next 12 - 18 months.  I will update if things change. We will also be using note booking pages as well.