Curriculum for Next Year

Well it is time again to start researching and deciding on what to teach the kids next year.  Here is what I have come up with so far.

Baby Girl

Phonics- Sing Spell Read and Write has a Letter Program and I am going to start her on that next year.  I am hoping she learns to recognize the letter and possibly the letter sounds.

Buddy

Math- Saxon K (we are starting this year and if we finish I will either go with Saxon 1 or Math U See, still researching that).

Phonics and Writing- Sing Spell Read and Write  I love the curriculum and it should be fun. We also have Ring Around the Phonics which I think will be a great tool.

Lit (Baby Girl and Buddy)- We will be reading, acting out and discussing classic fairy tales.

Fairy

Math- Teaching Textbooks 3

Princess

Math- Teaching Textbooks 4 or 5.  I want to test her close to the end of the year to see which would be the best fit.

Writing, Spelling and Lit will be the same for both Fairy and Princess.

Writing- IEW Intensive A

Spelling- All about Spelling Level 3

Lit- We will be reading The Chronicles of Narnia together and discussing it along with a few projects.

History and Science will be covered for all 4 children together.

I do not have my curriculum picked out yet for these yet.  I know in History we want to study American History and in Science I think we are going to do life science.  Still lots of research for these two things.

But I have a plan and some time.

Oh I forgot we are starting Bible lessons to add on to our other curriculum.  We are starting at
cullen's abc's Bible Study

I know it will be to easy for the older girls but hope it will help them learn more about our Lord.

Our New Year and a fun New Game

Well life got crazy busy before Christmas and is just now slowing down.  My husband has fewer doctors appointments and so no we will hopefully be home more often to school here instead of on the road. 

I was blessed with a Saxon Math for Buddy as well as a Sing, Spell, Read and Write for him and Baby Girl.  We just have to get the workbooks.  I think they are going to enjoy the games and will learn even more. 

We were also blessed with an awesome Phonics game that we are using till the books come in.  It is called Ring Around the Phonics.  I was picked by the maker, Ms. Roma Cox, as one of 3 homeschool moms to get one for free.  She asked that we give honest feedback on her page and because we have had so much fun I decided on my own to post here about it as well.

We got the game in time for Buddy to open it for Christmas and we played a bit Christmas day.  It was fun.

In the pictures above Buddy and Baby Girl were playing Ring Around the Phonics with their cousin Bumble Bee.  I have not asked her mom is I could post pictures of her here so I cut her out of the pictures.  There are green cards for actions they do, they are doing jumping jacks here, and blue cards where they answer questions about their phone number, address, what they want to be and many others.  As they go around the board they have to get the letter sounds right.  There are also books that come with the game and I have the children who are reading read a page before they can do the blue or green cards.  It is a four player game, but I played it with my co-op class with 5 students and they had a blast and wanted to play again.

You can find Ring Around the Phonics at http://www.ringaroundthephonics.com/.