I am very excited about what we are doing next year! I hope it leaves much more time to explore the kiddos' interests. Last year, we did the whole literature based thing. It was great but extremely time consuming. I found that we couldn't read the books the kids wanted to read, because we were struggling to get our 5 chapters of ancient history/literature reading in every day. This is 1st Grade folks! Anyway, forward to 2nd Grade and we add a Kindergartner too.
Kindergarten-
Teach Your Child to Read in 100 Easy Lessons (My fav. book for reading!) We are already on lesson 39. $22 New - Bought for Cole
Get Set for the Code (Handwriting, Phonics) $3 - used first few pages were written on.
BJU Press Math K5 - $23 New
2nd Grade-
Bible- A Bible :)
Read. Read. Read some more.
Character: Keepers Of the Faith $6 New
BJU Press Spelling 2 - $21 New
BJU Press English 2- $23 New
BJU Press Math 2 - $23 New
Enjoying God's World (Abeka Science) Free
Our America (Abeka) Free
We plan to read-aloud lots of American history books that we have at home or will borrow from the library. Although, this year I will jump ahead and share with the kids that we made up with England. I kind of left that out when we studied the Revolutionary War 2 years ago and the kids were horrified to learn that Bear Grylls is British.
FYI: BJU Press is aligned with Common Core.
After selling some of last years curriculum, I actually made $$! Yes, you could homeschool 2 kids for under $150. After registering with our umbrella school, we are still under $220. I probably spent that driving Cole to pre-school.
Money aside, I know that even at my worst, God has given these babies to teach. They will learn just as much or even more from my mistakes. I pray that I can be just a sliver of what God intended me to be for them.
