Aug. 31, 2007 - First Grade Plans
Here are the different books/programs that we are planning on using this year:
Catholic Heritage Curriculum (CHC) First Grade which includes:
-Faith and Life 1, Bible History using Children's Bible, Catholic Children's Treasure Box and other Faith based activities
-Memory Gems for each week
-Social Studies: Character Building / Virtue cards for each week
-Random Science Suggestions that we may do
-Read Aloud Suggestions for us to possibly follow
-Art with a Purpose: Art Pac 1
-Handwriting: Writing Can Help Book 1 and later book B
-Spelling
-Math-U-See: Alpha (to start with) and also MCP Book A (some pages) (they use this in our CHC plans so I thought I'd just get the book and do pages to present math in a different way now and then)
-Phonics: Explode the code and Reading AtoZ stuff along with using WinterPromise's phonics cards since he used those to learn the sounds
-Reading and Writing etc: pulled together by me, yikes - might end up getting "English for the Thoughtful Child" or something at some point
-WinterPromise Animal Worlds (and may go ahead and get World Around Me Science stuff too and spread the 2 out together since that is what ds is interested in at this point are more science experiment type things)
-History for Little Pilgrims (to use loosely to give a simple intro to history to ds - I plan on leaving out some stuff) along with Bible Story books and library books if I see ones that fit appropriately - might start some sort of timeline or timeline notebook
-The Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra
-Various Picture study resources from Library (like the Come Look with Me books)
-Map Skills book
Comments
Aug. 31, 2007 - Untitled Comment
Posted by noahsmom
is History for little pilgrims by Christian Liberty? and if so do you mind if I ask what you would skip?
I know the part about patrick in ireland did it for me
I know the difference on the green and orange thing...was told by some people from Ireland.
Sep. 1, 2007 - Untitled Comment
Posted by Prncsstefy
Sounds like a great year!
But oh my goodness, I'm so excited that you are pregnant! Praise our heavenly Father!!! That is so wonderful! Praying for a nice, healthy prenancy. I'll have to read back and see when you're due.
Ironically, after 7 years of trying, I am finally pregant too. LOL Unfortunately my hubby will be in Iraq when it's born but as long as he comes home, we'll deal. I'm totally jealous about about the heartbeat and sonogram. Major trouble with the military healthcare so I haven't seen a doctor yet. You can read all about that fun on my blog.
But I am so THRILLED for you and your family!!!! God is faithful!
Sep. 1, 2007 - History for Little Pilgrims
Posted by Onduli
Yes, this is by CLP...... and I like how it starts off explaining the story of history etc.... but do not plan on using it towards the end with American History etc.... would rather do more of a WinterPromise approach etc.... plus, I'm Catholic and it is certainly not Catholic.
Mainly I do not want to do textbook approaches to things - but needed a starting point for myself to have a spine to start with history beginning with creation :) We will really be reading more from the Bible story books etc.
I'm not sure what you mean by Patrick and the green / orange ?
