Curriculum 2013-2014

After months of researching and tackling our state's homeschool convention, I'm finally satisfied with our curriculum choices for the upcoming school year!  

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First Grade

• Core: Memoria Press first grade curriculum.  We tend to lean more toward an eclectic, classical loving homeschooling family.  After drooling over the Memoria Press curriculum, I finally broke down and bought it! 

• Izzie loves Math.  I allow her to work through the workbooks at her own pace.  If she finishes one level, she starts another.  She has completed the Kindergarten Level, Level 1, and Level 2 for Horizons.  This year she'll be starting Horizons, Level 3.  She has also completed Singapore Math levels: kindergarden, first, and second.  Did I mention, she loves math?!  After a lot of thought, I decided to no longer use both curriculum...this year, she'll only use Horizons. 
  
  

• She completed First Language Lessons Level 1 last year and will continue with Level 2 this year.  In addition, she'll be adding Writing With Ease, Level 1.  
  
  

    

•  I'm the most excited about this find, Biology for the Grammar Stage.  

• She will continue working through School Song Spanish.  We were fortunate to review this curriculum last year and my girls loved it! 

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 Pre-K

• Core:  Memoria Press Jr. Kindergarten curriculum.  For Izzie, I would always cut and paste together her prechool curriculum from various blogs.  This year, I decided to take an easier, less time consuming route! 

I will be supplementing with:

• All About Reading, Pre-Reading Level 

• Saxon Math, Kindergarten

 

•  Exploring Science 

 

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 As a family, the girls will be completing the following:

• Only the geography section from My Father's World, Exploring Countries and Cultures. 

 

• While traveling around the world, the girls will be creating masterpieces from Global Art.  We reviewed this book over the summer and it was a huge hit! 

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Curious to know what other families are using?  Grab a cup of coffee and hop over to iHomeschool Network.