Jotham's Journey, Prudence and the Millers, 1 Peter, The King's Daughter
Our Curriculum:
Horizons Math Grade 4 and K,The Reading Lesson, Sequential Spelling, Lifepac Language Arts 4, Apologia Astronomy, Veritas Press New Testament/Greeks/Romans
Prima Latina, Contenders for the Faith and various Winters Promise books, Live Mocha Spanish, Plants Grown Up
I wanted to paste part of an email I just wrote,because I think it would benefit a lot of my readers :)
Curriculum is truly unnecessary until children are much older. We didn't start with formal curriculum until 3rd grade. I am really very relaxed in our homeschooling. And my children learn a TON.
At the ages your children are in, all you really need to do is instill a love of learning! Make it fun.
Point out the world around them. "Do you see that caterpillar? He is brown and fuzzy. Did you know God will turn him into a beautiful butterfly? Right now his to is to eat leaves and grow, but then he will go into a special home called a chrysalis, and when he comes out he will be a butterfly."
Read to them TONS. I personally am not a fan of a lot of the silly childrens' books, so when we go to the library we go to the non fiction section and gets tons of books on animals, plants etc.
Let them help in the kitchen. "First Mommy needs to add flour, 1.2.3 cups. We chose to use wheat flour because it is healthier for our bodies than white flour. White flour is made from wheat flour with the good stuff taken out. Then Mommy needs to add baking soda. Baking soda helps the cake get nice and fluffy. This is salt. It goes in next, would you like to taste some? Did you know the Bible says we are supposed to be the salt of the earth? What do you think that means?"
At around age 3 or 4 we start with ABC Bible verses. We do one verse a week, and learn the letter that goes with it using this book:
http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/angelnavywife/649679/
Andrew started memorizing verses at 2! He could barely talk but he remembered them!
We started with Prov 20, The hearing ear (point to ear) and the seeing eye (point to eye) the Lord has made them both, and similar easy verses he could understand the meaning of. And in the beginning God created the heavens and the Earth. Gen 1:1.
We always go through the Bible as well. Starting in Genesis. We use a children's Bible (the Read and Learn Bible for us) and read through the entire thing in order(though my children also hear me read from the regular Bible every night at bedtime as well, and we just started reading at meals too).
We use it as history. I let them make a timeline, and my 8 year old is still using his. Every event we learn about they draw a picture and I label it (Day 1 of creation, The Flood, Jacob, Joseph goes to Egypt, Jesus' triumphal entry etc). The I hole punch it and put it in a binder in the order it happened. Later as we learn about other events, we add those in too. When we learned about Joseph going into Egypt, we pointed out Israel on a map, and then Egypt, and traced our finger to it.
Hi Angel!
I really enjoy your blog. I was catching up on some reading here and really appreciate hearing from your heart behind the posts.... wouldn't it be wonderful to meet IRL one day? :)
I couldnt help but think, again -lol, while reading that I hope you will get a chance to post some of this at Mamaknowsbest.net. It would be such a lovely addition!
Blessings!
Elizabeth
aka fulltime mom
