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I wrote a post earlier this summer about our Kindergarten plans. I haven’t changed much of our plan since then.
- History / Geography / Literature: Sonlight Core A
- Math: Math Mammoth Light Blue Grade 1 and Misc Blue Series Level 1 Books
- Science: Apologia’s Exploring Creation with Astronomy
- Language Arts: Spell to Write & Read plus Pathway Readers and Workbooks (Finish final 1st Grade book/workbook and begin 2nd Grade)
- World View / Theology: Apologia’s Who is God?
- Foreign Language: Hooked on Phonics French
- and whatever else we find to add in all the way!
I’m planning to stretch Sonlight Core A for closer to two years, if possible, since Jonathan is on the young side for starting that core. I created a page where I can update our curriculum along the way when I make changes. {Yes, changes will happen. I’m prepared for that.} If you’re homeschooling with any of these books, please share with us how you’re using them over the course of the school year. You can keep up with us in one or more of the following ways:
I’ve been busy gathering materials and getting our first few weeks planned out. {I’ll be sharing more on how I plan along with a review and giveaway from Scholaric coming soon!}
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We did Sonlight for much of our kindergarten year! Loved it 🙂
Many Blessings in your homeschooling year!
love your ideas for curriculum. 😉 Thank you for participating in blog hop and looking forward to see you all (blog hops). 🙂 I also like Math Mammoth too.
We are using Who Is God? with my oldest daughter, and I am so thrilled to have this resource!
I popped over here from HOTM’s NOT Back to School Blog Hop and it’s so exciting to me to see other moms list their aspirations for their homeschool! I do hope you’ll head over to see what’s going on at our homeschool!
Thank you for sharing, and have a great year!!
I’m so excited about Who is God? from Apologia. My oldest became a Christ-follow this past spring. I don’t expect him to master everything in the book. My boys are far enough apart that by the time I finish the 4 book series with Jonathan, I can do the series again with boys together. That round would be more in depth for Jonathan and an intro for Jacob.
OH! And I see that you and I are both going to the WOF Conference in Charlotte, thanks to BookSneeze! Hooray!!!
Yeah! We’ll have to plan to meet up. I wonder if they have all of us bloggers seated together?
Sonlight is so wonderful! Have FUN this year…our babies are only this little once! 🙂
We’re excited. I follow Jonathan’s lead… we slow down and speed up, do more or less each day, and add lots of other fun things in along the way.
We did Apologia Astronomy last year and really enjoyed it!
I’m hopping over from HOTM. That Astronomy book was a hit with my oldest daughter.
I think Sonlight is great. I get their catalog and use their booklists plus we have the Mathtacular DVDs and the Discover & Do. We’re doing K-1st and PK so I’m going to follow you and we can hopefully provide each other with some moral support!
We used P 3/4 and P 4/5 last year and loved it! My oldest is all about reading and being read to so it works very well for us.
Sounds like a fun plan, enjoy it!
We’ll be doing Apologia Astronomy this year too. 🙂 Stopping by from HOTM.
How early can you start apologia,it looks great?
The elementary series is for K-6th. Jonathan is on the young side but really wants to learn about space. We’re going to take our time with it. My goal is introduction and fun, not mastery at this age.
How early can you start apologia?it looks so good?
Love the choices! Enjoy your year!
welcome to homeschooling! i found your blog thru the HOTM blog hop. your comment about stretching the curriculum for an additional year suggests to me that you know your child well and have a good grasp on things–kudos! i wish you and your family much joy in this new adventure.
I follow his pace. He’s an advanced 4 year old pushing me for more most of the time.
I enjoyed reading about your curriculum choices. Hope you have a great year!
Stopping by from the blog hop! We use the pathway readers as well, although we just use them as backup readers without the workbooks. I’m so glad I stopped by here because I was trying to find something else to do with my kindergartener this year to enhance the Little Pim french videos that we will be starting and I didn’t even KNOW that Hooked on Phonics had French stuff! I’m going to check it out now!
HoP French is reasonably priced. Computer games, flashcards, little readers. It’s nice.
Following you from the Not Back-to-School Hop. We are also going to be doing Apologia Astronomy this year.
Come back and let me know how you’re using Astronomy throughout the year. Your link doesn’t go anywhere, so I can’t find you.
My son won’t start kindergarten till next year but I am afraid of what I have signed myself up for. The pressure is building seeing as this is my test year to see if I can homeschool. How did you know when it was time to start more formal schooling?
Jonathan is starting a year early for the NC age cut -off for public school. This is where I lean a little more classical – I don’t expect him to master everything at this age. Reading and beginning math skills are most important academically. Of course, Bible stories and scripture memory are also big things to me. Jonathan came out of daycare a year ago so he was already used to have an “academic” time each day. I just continued that. I alternate between stretching him a little and letting him cruise for a while. And when he asks for more, I give him more – even if that means doing math with daddy at 10pm, as he is right now.
You know your kids best. Don’t be afraid to try new things; don’t be discouraged when something you try doesn’t work.
What a GREAT line up!
Good luck with your homeschool year. Sounds like you’ve got a great plan going.
Looks like a great school year! have fun!
This will our first year with Math Mammoth after a switch, too. So far I like it, but time will tell how my oldest likes it.
Have a great year!
We’re started Addition 1 a few days ago. Jonathan is loving it!
We use Spell to Write to Read. We also use Apologia Astronomy. I used the Astronomy last year with my daughter and I will be using it again this year for my son. We didn’t do all the activities in the book but we did some of them. They were fun. I will be doing some over again with my son and adding on a few more to get some variety!
It looks like you will have a great year! Blessings!
We are loving Astronomy so far. Thanks for stopping by to see our curriculum.