2012-2013 Curriculum and Resources

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Our Curriculum and Resources:

I have curriculum swimming in my brain right now! I can’t get it all straight in my head until I get it all straight on paper… good ol’ paper and pen! I’ve spent the last few days nailing down the loose ends and making a plan.

We still have a few things from last year that we can keep using this year — Writing Strands 3 (though I’ll add an additional resource for Princess for more challenge,) Our Mother Tongue Grammar (this is a pretty deep resource,) and our You Can Paint Like the Masters book. Also, we’re continuing with the resources we already know and love – Apologia Science & Worldview, Mystery of History, Teaching Textbooks and Horizons Math.

We’re also going to be adding some more Notebooking in, using the Notebooking Publisher and Notebooking Pages. I’m excited to dig in and start using our new resource, the Young Readers curriculum from Heritage History, a good source of living books for both history and reading.

Last but not least I’ll be adding in a few freebies I’ve collected and some inexpensive Scholastic downloadables to flesh out some thin spots. All of the Scholastic workbooks below I downloaded for one dollar each during one of their mega sales! A friend gave me Grammar Town and Grammar Island. Global Mania, Progressive Phonics and the McGuffey Primer can all be found online for free.

I think it’s all coming together pretty well. =)

Group:

• Who Am I? (And What Am I Doing Here?)~ Apologia
• The Young Peacemaker
• Zoology 3, Land Animals ~ Apologia
• Mystery of History, Volume 2~ Bright Ideas Press (Because we ended up spending two years on volume 1), Heritage History (for supplemental literature) and books from our Mystery of History reading list
• Global Mania, our Geography related books
• Writing Strands Level 3, Our Mother Tongue, Grammar Town/Island, Joe Bright and the Seven Genre Dudes
• You Can Paint Like the Masters, Famous Artists Unit Study, World’s Greatest Composers Study, Shakespeare for the Ears

Princess (7th/8th)

• Teaching Textbooks Pre-Algebra or Algebra (after a placement test)
• Expository Writing, Figuratively Speaking, Vocabulary Packets: Prefixes & Suffixes
• General Science ~ Apologia
• Whatever Happened to Penny Candy?
• 50 Great States Read & Solve Crossword Puzzles

Drama Queen (4th-ish)

• Horizons 4th or 5th Grade Math ~ Alpha Omega (We’ll see after placement tests.)
• Funny Fairy Tale Grammar, Funny Fairy Tale Proofreading
• Marvelous Map Activities

Little Prince (1st)

• Horizons First Grade Math ~ Alpha Omega
• McGuffey Primer, Progressive Phonics
• Our Country Write & Read Books

The Mom

• Well Planned Day Lesson Planner
• Educating the WholeHearted Child
• The Ultimate Guide to Homeschooling Teens
• Notebooking Success
• Design Your Own Language Arts Curriculum

I still need to buy our Who Am I?, a junior journal and lab kit for the Zoology, our Mystery of History 2, math for all 3, the language arts workbooks for Princess, her General Science, Whatever Happened to Penny Candy — and books, books and more books from our various reading lists. I need to get busy, huh? 😉

(P.S. Check out my used curriculum and other things for sale.)

What about you — how is your curriculum planning coming along? Do you know what you need, do you have it yet?

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