Our Curriculum This Year

The core of our day will be centered around our Five in a Row curriculum. With FIAR you read a book (Classics, Caldecotts etc) five days in a row and you pull out social studies, math, language arts, art, science etc out of each book. This can be a complete study with the addition of math and phonics. We add several extra components......since mommy usually likes overkill!!

This is Madelyn's Phonics program. She will begin with the Get Ready...Get Set and Go for the Code and then continue with Explode the Code. Carson will be switching back to Math-U-See this year. Madelyn will begin with MUS. We will supplement with Saxon.
Carson is reading very well and is spelling well so I am beginning him on Wordly Wise, an excellent vocabulary program. He will use Just Write to begin his creative writing.
In co-op Carson will be taking a Botony class. This is written by Jeannie Fulbright. This should be interesting because this is a tough course! We will do most of the reading and notebooking at home and the experiments at co-op.
This is just a stack of free books I picked up at the local homeschool conference. I was so happy:)
Madelyn will also use Dolch sight word worbooks, Rod & Staff Kindergarten set and Handwriting without Tears.
Annastyn is using the beginning Explode the Code, Rod & Staff preschool set and Handwriting without Tears.
Carson also uses First Language Lessons for grammar, spelling is A Reason for Spelling and Handwriting without Tears (he wants to begin cursive this year).

We have a great art program that we use once a week by Barry Stebbing, How Great Thou Art.

Details from the first couple of days of school to come......