Not-Back-to-School Blog Hop: Our VERY ECLECTIC Curriculum: 6th, 3rd, 2nd, and Preschool Levels

I am writing two posts

this year

to talk about the curriculum 

we are using for our

2013-2014

homeschool year.

In this post, 

I am mostly sharing what each of my kiddos

is using individually.

In the next post,

I discussed how we are doing

our group subjects-
You can read more about
that by clicking HERE....

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First up

is Jungle Girl's curriculum.

She is in 6th grade this year,

which is "Middle School" level

in East Tennessee.

Here is what we are beginning her year with:

Bible

As a family,

we are continuing our study of the 

book of Luke,

using The Dig and

Good Morning Girls

"Loving Like Jesus" Bible Study Resources.

Individually,
she continues to go through her
Rock-N-Happy: The Devotional 
by Yancy

When she finishes this,
we will look for a new devotional for her
to go through.

I really want her to learn more
than just Bible facts and stories-
I want her to learn to develop a quiet time
with Jesus
and deepen her relationship with him.

This is why I choose to handle Bible
in the manner that I do...

Math

She is learning all about fractions this year

with Math-U-See's

Epsilon.

Reading

Jungle Girl will complete several lapbook/notebook studies 

based on novels which will be tied to our

History units.

(I will discuss more about this in my next curriculum post...)

We are beginning the year with a study on Native Americans,

so she is currently reading

Sing Down the Moon

and completing a lapbook on Pocahontas. 

Copywork

Copywork is how she is currently getting in her spelling,

language arts, and cursive writing lessons.

We are using the book

The Wisdom of Narnia

for her copywork right now...

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Here is the curriculum we are using for

Baby Girl this year,

who is currently in 3rd grade...

Bible

For her personal devotional time,
she has been reading
Shelia Walsh's
God's Little Princess Devotional Bible.

Math

Baby Girl is almost through

Math-U-See's Beta book,
and then she will go right into multiplication
with the Gamma book.

Reading and Language Arts

Just like Jungle Girl,
Baby Girl is completing lapbook studies
that go along with our History this year.

She is beginning by reading all of the
American Girl
Josefina books...

...and filling in the lapbook found at Homeschool Share.

Spelling

We need to get this ordered,

and once we do,

she will start up her Spelling lessons again with

All About Spelling Level 3.

Cursive

Maybe this is one day going to be a lost art form,

but I am still teaching it to my kiddos,

using

Peterson Directed Handwriting.

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Here is the curriculum

for Little Wild Man,

who is now in 2nd grade...

Bible

He is not doing any personal devotion yet,

since he is not a strong reader yet-

he will just do the Bible study I mentioned before...

Math

Little Wild Man just started Math-U-See's

Beta this year,

so I suspect this will be his only math book for the year.

Read and Spelling

After he finishes up

All About Spelling Level 1 and

All About Reading Level 1,

which should be soon,

he will be heading into level 2

for the rest of the year.

Copywork

For Little Wild Man's Language Arts
and handwriting practice,
he is continuing to write different nursery rhymes.

He also needs some extra work
on his lowercase letters,
so I found...

...THESE fun worksheets

which I would like him to complete this year.

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Now,

for the preschoolers I babysit in my home,

we are using the...

...Animal ABC's

from

1+1+1=1.

(In case you are curious how I babysit other little ones

while I homeschool my own,

you can read THIS post I just wrote about it...)

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Oh,

and I do NOT want to forget to talk about our

Fine Arts supplements!

Music

...we will be using the FANTABULOUS Mary Prather's

SQUILT curriculum,

as well as trying to learn to play the recorder

with a little 

Recorder Karate.

Art

We will be doing a lot of arts and crafts

with our History/Science units,

but I would also like to teach the kiddos

some more about different techniques using...

...art inches,

which are explained very nicely by Gail

over on

That Artist Woman.

In my next post,

I will explain more in depth

what we are doing for History and Science this year-

I am very excited about it!

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