2008-09 Curriculum
We pretty much homeschool year round, taking a week or two off here and there around the calendar for seasonal celebrations. Here is our general plan for the next cycle. Athena is finishing up our Kindergarten material and moving into much of the work I had planned for 1st Grade this summer. Apollo and Artemis have started counting and number/letter recognition without me, so I am planning on adding them in to the official homeschooling plan a bit this go around as their attention spans and interest levels dictate.
Apollo & Artemis:
- a relaxed, basic letter/number/shape/color of the week style mini lesson, many free and easy ideas gleanned from the Letter of the Week site
- oodles of messy hands-on art experiences compliments of my favorite resource for this purpose, MaryAnne Kohl’s book, First Art
- age appropriate exploration activities pulled mostly from the book, Slow and Steady, Get Me Ready
- any and all benefit gained from tagging along to a variety of activities actually aimed at Athena’s needs and interests, but hey, what isn’t totally facinating when you’re two years old?
Athena
- LANGUAGE ARTS- continue Progressive Phonics and Explode the Code, reading, reading & more reading, Natural Speller, begin First Language Lessons Level 1 and (once it comes out) Writing With Ease Level 1
- MATH & LOGIC- continue with Singapore Math, beginning with Primary Math 1A, continue with the Mind Benders series and begin Lollipop Logic
- FOREIGN LANGUAGES- Rosetta Stone Latin American Spanish Level 1 & Power Glide Children’s Latin
- HISTORY- the free Mosaics Ancient History program which begins with prehistory and uses Story of the World vol. 1 and the Usborne Internet-Linked Encyclopedia of World History as the primary spines
- SCIENCE- the biology/life science curriculum I finally wrote myself since I couldn’t find anything out there I was happy with (which I hope to at least have a general outline for posted somewhere here eventually)
- ARTS- whatever inspires her, a little art history to go along with our base history studies and beginning piano/keyboard & sewing at her request
- other misc. learning opportunities through our two homeschooling groups/co-ops offered by other homeschooling parents
- possibly Daisy Girl Scouts and some sort of sports related activity (swimming, dance, or martial arts) *we’re still mulling this one over*
