Gathering up all of our Curriculum for the Summer

Gathering up all of our Curriculum for the Summer

When I started to first research about Home School two things I wanted to know were what schedules or more what a day in a life of a home school home looks like, and what curriculum people used. I am of course still figuring this out and in fact have a appointment to meet up with a local mom to learn about one program I am really interested in using, starting now all the way through middle school and maybe high school ,but before I invest I am thoroughly investigating. 

I thought I would share what I have gathered up so far to use for our summer schooling. We will continue to use it past summer I am sure.

BIBLE

  



For the Bible we will of course use our Bibles and I bought the What's in the Bible DVD and My Jesus Journal.

MATH

For Math we will have a few options. the main source we will be using are the Life of Fred textbooks. then I bought some workbook page books to use either to break up the text book or to use when I need to instruct one child and the other has to wait for me. I also ordered a Polyhedra Dice Games: for Grades K to 6  book.  

GRAMMAR

For Grammar we will be using the First Language lessons by Jessie Wise this is a excellent source it is scripted for those of us challenged in the grammar. Yes I plan on learning right along with my boys both in grammar and Math.

WRITING

Writing we will be learning handwriting, cursive writing, typing and journaling alternating them throughout the week. 

What we will be using are some books I picked up from our local school supply store for handwriting and cursive. I also ordered the Draw Write 

Now books and subscribed to a typing program on the computer called Typing instructor for kids. I really like and so does River so far.

READING

We plan on doing a lot of reading. I have a book list that together we will talk about them ,and make lap books after  reading them. We will also be doing reading outside of our book list. We will have a library days and the boys will pick out books they will read independently and we will find books we enjoy to read as a family for our evening reading time.  We will have 2 journals one which we will have prompts sometimes or use for free writing, the second will be a nature journal that I am excited about because this means getting close to nature and the outdoors perfect for summer!  

our book list is currently as follows:

20,000 leagues under the Sea.

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe

Mr Poppers Penguins (we will read this and follow along with the audio version)

Treasure Island

The Wind in the Willows

Journey to the Center of the Earth

Scientist and Inventors

I am very excited about these books by Mike Venezia ,I discovered while perusing a home school blog The series is called, Getting to know the worlds greatest scientist and inventors. We will also be making lap books after studying each one of these. I hope to get deeper into these studies maybe trying out our own  inventions or trying out their experiments.

these books include:

Albert Einstein: universal Genius

Henry Ford: Big Wheel in the Auto Industry

Marie Curie: Scientist who made Glowing Discoveries

Thomas Edison: Inventor with a lot of Bright Ideas

Alexander Graham Bell: Setting the Tone for Communication

The Wright Brothers: Inventors who's Ideas really took Flight

Benjamin Franklin: Electrified the World with new Ideas

I am looking forward to  learning along side my children.