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2012-2013

Jonathan {age 5-6 in 1st Grade}

History / Geography / Literature:

  • Finish selected Sonlight Core A books: The Family Under the Bridge.
  • Study Ancient History – from the beginning of time to the fall of Rome.
  • Selected books from Sonlight Core B, The Well-Trained Mind, Ambleside Online, Timeline of Classics, Read for the Heart, etc

Reference Books

  • Story of the World Volume 1 and Activity Book
  • Timeline Figures from Confessions of a Homeschooler
  • Usborne Internet-linked Encylcopedia of World History

History

  • Boy of the Pyramids
  • Tut's Mummy Lost and Found (Reader)
  • A Cry from Egypt (Pre-release copy from Great Waters Press)
  • Hittite Warrior
  • D'Aulaires' Book of Greek Myths
  • A Children's Homer
  • Trojan Horse (Reader)
  • Little Pear
  • The Bronze Bow
  • Detectives in Togas
  • Cleopatra
  • Pompeii: Buried Alive (Reader)

Fiction

  • Charlotte's Web
  • Mr. Popper's Penguins
  • The Wheel on the School
  • The Year of Miss Agnes
  • Henry Huggins
  • Mountain Born
  • Understood Betsy
  • Sarah Plain and Tall

Math: Math Mammoth Light Blue Grade 2 and Misc Blue Series Level 2 Books as needed.

Science: Continue Apologia's Exploring Creation with Astronomy

Language Arts:

  • Spell to Write & Read spelling lists
  • Pathway Readers and Workbooks -Continue 2nd Grade level
  • WriteShop Primary Book A
  • Applied Grammar

Bible and World View / Theology:

  • Continue Apologia's Who is God?
  • Grapevine Bible Studies
  • Continue reading through Egermeier's Bible Story Book
  • What's in the Bible? DVDs

Foreign Language: Hooked on Phonics French

and whatever else we find to add in all the way!

Jacob {Toddler, Age 1-2}

Lots of reading with mommy and toys. Start adding in some tot school activities.

 

2011-2012

Jonathan {age 4-5 in Kindergarten}

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: Sonlight LA 1 and Readers 1 (Summer 2011), 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?
  • Grapevine Studies

Foreign Language: Hooked on Phonics French

and whatever else we find to add in all the way!

Jacob {baby}

Lots of reading with mommy and toys.  Later in the school year, we might add some fun activity ideas from various blogs I've been reading.

 

2010-2011

Jonathan {age 3-4 in Pre-K}

History / Geography / Literature: Sonlight P3/4 (Summer 2010), Sonlight P4/5

Reading and Phonics: Spell to Write & Read plus Pathway Readers and Workbooks (1st Grade)

Math: Saxon Math K –> First 30 lessons, then switched to Math Mammoth

Foreign Language: Hooked on Phonics French

and whatever else we find to add in all the way!

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