Curriculum 2012-2013

I always love to see what other homeschoolers are using each year, so here's my post just incase you enjoy browsing these sorts of posts like I do! 

This year, we will have:
Drew - 6th grade
Gavin - 5th grade
Morgan - 2nd grade
Annika - preschool

**Note:  This year will be like no other for us = 7 kids, including a newborn, so we may/may not even come close to getting through all of this... it's just what we have planned.  Plus, I usually over buy.** 

Preschool
The Jesus Storybook Bible (We all love this one, we're reading through it again...)
The Complete Adventures of Peter Rabbit
A Poke in the I (poetry)
Lost in the Woods
20th Century Children's Book Treasury
HarperCollins Treasury of Picture Book Classics
Teddy Bear Counting (and Teddy Bear counters not pictured)
Ladybug Letters
Sequence Letters game
Dr. Suess's ABC
Preschool Workbooks set of 4 (developed by an Amish family for their children)
Richard Scarry's Getting Ready for School workbook
Usborne Sticker Books:  Getting Dressed & 1 2 3

 Family Read-Alouds
Paddle to the Sea
Minn of the Mississippi
Understood Betsy
The Children of Noisy Village
Winnie the Pooh collection (unabridged audio)
Little Britches
Toliver's Secret
Ereth's Birthday
Owls in the Family
Mr. Popper's Penguins

Personal Reading for the Boys (1/2 Drew, 1/2 Gavin)
Mr. Revere and I
Kite Fighters
The Great and Terrible Quest
Johnny Tremain
Plain Girl
The Golden Goblet
Ali and the Golden Eagle
Secret of the Andes
All Sail Set
From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler
Shades of Gray
The Terrible Wave
The Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson
All-of-a-Kind-Family
Little Pear
George Washington Carver
Freedom Train
Sing Down the Moon
Hero Over Here
The Seventeenth Swap
The Wonderful Flight to the Mushroom Planet
The Strange Intruder
The Year of the Panda
The Mysterious Benedict Society
Treasures of the Snow
The Good Master
Listening for Lions
The Black Pearl
The Great Turkey Walk
Turn Homward, Hannalee
Bruchko

History/Geography

with the Girls:

America: A Patriotic Primer

Hail to the Chief: The American Presidency

Our 50 States

The Scrambled States of America

Beginning Geography (a continuation of what we started last year)

A Child's History of the World  (I read this a couple years back with the boys, a great read!)

for the Boys:

Switched on Schoolhouse, History/Geography Grade 6

Read Aloud Fun with the Girls
The Milly-Molly-Mandy Storybook & Comprehension Guide
My Big Book of 5-Minute Devotions
Little House in the Big Woods & Comprehension Guide
The Little House Cookbook
Laura Ingalls Wilder Country
My Little House Crafts Book
My Book of Little House Paper Dolls
On the Loose with Dr. Suess
Your Favorite Suess Treasury

Math
Horizons 2  (Morgan)
Teaching Textbooks 5  (Gavin)
Teaching Textbooks 6  (Drew)

Science
Apologia - Exploring Creation with Zoology 1  (all)
Apologia - Notebooking Journal (boys)
Apologia - Junior Notebooking Journal (Morgan)
Zoology 1 Lab Kit  (not pictured)
One Small Square Series (girls)

Reading/Writing with the Girls
Primary Arts of Language: Reading
Primarty Arts of Language: Writing

Writing for the Boys



Write Source 6

Cursive Writing Practice:  Inspiring Quotes

Pictures in Cursive:  books C and D  (Queen Homeschool)

Thematic Copywork Lessons - 4 different titles  (Queen Homeschool)

Winter Promise Language Arts:  Alien Spelling Word Attack,  First Contact, Fifth Grade Paragraph Writing



More Language Arts for the Girls

for Annika:

Printing with Pictures Primer

Explode the Code, books B and C

for Morgan:

I'm a Writer! 

Copywork for Little Girls

Copywork for Animal Lovers

Printing with Pictures, books A and B