Our Curriculum
Hi there! I know that everyone is always curious to see what other homeschoolers are using for their curriculum. I know that I am, so I wanted to share our curriculum choices with you as we go along.
2017 – 2018 School Year
1st Grade
Bible: Indescribable devotional / Apologia Who Is God? / Adventure Bible / God’s Wisdom for Little Boys
Language Arts: The Good and the Beautiful (free PDFs) / Explode the Code / Books from the Library / Audio books on Hoopla
Handwriting: A Reason for Handwriting / Draw Write Now
Math: Math Mammoth 1A & 1B / Fraction Equivalency Cubes / Pattern Blocks / Geared Clock
Science: DK First Human Body Encyclopedia / Squishy Human Body / Tinker Crate / Coding With Scratch
History: Story of the World / Usborne Book of World History / Time Traveler / Living Long Ago / 3D Castle Puzzle
Cultures and Geography: Childrens Atlas of God’s World / Passport to the World / Window on the World
2016 – 2017 School Year
Kindergarten
Bible: The Bible Study Guide For All Ages / Read & Learn Bible / Crossroads of Character / homemade timeline
Language Arts – Progressive Phonics (free) / Explode the Code / Practice readers from the library
Handwriting – A Reason for Handwriting
Math – Singapore Essential Math A & B / unifix cubes / Cuisinaire Rods / Abacus
Science – DK How Things Work Encyclopedia / Natural World / Intro to Engineering kit / Live Butterfly Garden kit (read my review here) / Snap Circuits kit / Fun with Magnets kit / Mind Blowing Science kit
*For the math abacus, we started off using a standard abacus, but I actually ended up disassembling it and rearranging the beads into groups of 5, similar to an AL abacus. I would recommend purchasing an AL abacus if possible, such as this one sold by RightStart math, which arranges the beads into groups of 5 and 10.