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.