Curriculum

This is our first year of officially homeschooling. We're excited, so I thought I'd share a little bit about what we plan on doing this year.

We're doing Sonlight Core K this year. We've read one book so far and the kids are loving it. As much as I want to stay in the instructor's guide everyday, I don't think that's the way that it's going to be. My goal is to finish everything, but at our pace. I don't want to sprint through this year, but enjoy all the twists and turns.

I did pick up the Sonlight Language Arts 1, because Nathan was doing really well on learning to read, but it's kinda slowed down with the pregnancy and moving. Plus, I lost the book I was using to teach him in the move. (Teach your child to read in 100 easy lessons) . We're also doing the Explode the Code as soon as I find it (it should be in the same place as the reading lesson book). I know that the books made it to this house, they were in the garage when we were moving our stuff in, and I thought that would be a safe place, but then everything got shuffled around between the garage and the shed, and we can't find them anywhere AHHHHHHHHHH!

We're also doing 1st grade Handwriting without Tears. We did the Kindergarten level last year with much success. I think it helped with learning to read too.

We are about 35 lessons into Horizons K Math. It's taught in a spiral fashion, which I didn't think that I would like, but now that we're used to it, both of us like it. It's getting harder right now, and he gets frustrated writing the numbers...he understands the math fine, but the writing part is difficult, so sometimes, I make him write half of it, and then I write his answers for the other half.

Dad is in charge of science, and they're going to do Sonlight science K. It's mostly usborne books, and they love the books. Science probably won't be every day, more like every few days, but they can have fun with it. I don't think that science is 'necessary' for kindergärtners anyway, I knew the instructor's guide would give them some structure for it.

Becca can do most of this with us....she'll be listening with the readers and read alouds, she can follow along with the science experiments, she can work on her handwriting as well. I might do some "letter of the week" stuff with her and let Nathan play along with that too.