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By the Book
5.18.2008
Curricula for the upcoming year
As we continue finishing up this school year, I am starting to get all of our curricula collected for next year. Here is what K will be doing for her 1st grade year:
Math - Saxon 1
Bible - Alpha Omega LIFEPAC 1
Language Arts - McRuffy 1st Grade Phonics and Reading (also includes spelling and handwriting)
History - Story of the World Volume 1 - Ancient Times
Science - Lots of animal study and notebooking/lapbooking, followed by learning about the human body and plants later in the year
Music - Music for Little Mozarts, Alfred's Kid's Drum Course
Art - Lots of drawing from simple drawing books (starting with Diego and rainforest animals, of course!)
H's schoolwork will be as follows:
Math - Saxon K (Some of this will be review, as she has joined us for this quite a bit throughout this year)
Language Arts - McRuffy Kindergarten Phonics and Reading (also includes spelling and handwriting)
History - She will be sitting in on this with us, but will not need to do all of the activities that K does
Science - Again, she will be participating with us
Music - Music for Little Mozarts, Alfred's Kid's Drum Course
Of course, H's schedule for next year is contingent upon her abilities. I'm sure that she will not take to the reading right away, even though she has asked to learn to read. Given her learning style, I think some more educational play may be needed for a while still. I want to get the Hot Dots Phonics Fun program for her to play around with until she's ready for something more formal.
So, the next few months are for gathering curricula, looking over curricula, and preparing my lesson plans for the first couple weeks of school. Our target start date this year is going to be August 18th, so the countdown is on!
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5.24.2008 - That sounds fun!
1) Classical Kids: An Activity Guide to Life in Ancient Greece and Rome (A Kid's Guide series)
2) Ancient Science: 40 Time-Traveling, World-Exploring, History-Making Activities for Kids
You can probably get these from the library as I imagine they are fairly popular.
Another set of books we found to be pretty interesting and will use is a series of "news" books written about the past cultures. Each book is like a newspaper/magazine highlighting important events and aspects of the culture.
1) History News 3000 B.C. - 1100 B.C.: The Egyptian News (History News)
2) The Greek News
3) The Roman News
Some fun hands on kits and projects I have found to go along with various units in the year include:
1) Ancient Egypt Treasure Chest
2) Ancient China Treasure Chest
3) Mystic Egyptian Tomb Dig and Play
4) Lift the lid on Galdiators (might not appeal to little girls though lol)
Some ideas I am having for adding literatue/read alouds into the curriculum:
1) Tales from Shakespeare by Lamb introducing Julius Caesar, for instance, when we are studyign the romans
2) Detectives in Togas
3) The jungle book, just so stories, and the Olive Fairy Book when we do the unit on Ancient India
4) African Fairy Tales and folklore when we study ancient africa.
5) Aesop's fables when we do Greece and maybe a children's version of the oddessy. We will also read some myth tales (with a lengthy discussion on why they are myths!)
I hope this helps you get some more ideas in planning your year! Happy teaching :)