Homeschool Blessings
1st/2nd Grade Curriculum
Charlotte Mason Style Education:
I choose our curriculum based on an eclectic mix of Charlotte Mason ideas and book lists. I have chosen the literature for this upcoming year based on the following lists plus some of my own preferences and tastes.
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The Literature I have chosen for this year consists of the following titles:
The Drinking Gourd
Keep the Lights Burning, Abbie - by Peter & Connie Roop
The Littles
The Boxcar Children
The Velveteen Rabbit
Mr. Popper's Penguins
Heidi
Cricket in Times Square
Favorite Poems of Childhood
Language & Thinking by Ruth Beechick (Poems)
Follow My Leader
Dr. Doolittle
Rikki Tikki Tavi
Misty of Chincoteague
The Red Fairy Book
The Blue Fairy Book
The Jungle Book
Lassie
Pollyanna - (for my girls)
A Bear Called Paddington
Li Lun, Lad of Courage
Mrs. Piggle -Wiggle
The Mouse & The Motorcycle - *One of my FAVORITES from childhood - I'm so excited about it - we may finish this one in the next few weeks rather than waiting *
The Big Wave
Little Lord Faunleroy (my son)
A Little Princess - (for my girls. I've heard RAVE reviews for this book)
Peter Pan
http://www.amblesideonline.org/
Home School Curriculum - Your complete home school curriculum program resource.
The Tanglewood School - free complete classical homeschooling curriculum merged with the delightful teaching of Charlotte Mason.
The Literature I have chosen for this year consists of the following titles:
The Drinking Gourd
Keep the Lights Burning, Abbie - by Peter & Connie Roop
The Littles
The Boxcar Children
The Velveteen Rabbit
Mr. Popper's Penguins
Heidi
Cricket in Times Square
Favorite Poems of Childhood
Language & Thinking by Ruth Beechick (Poems)
Follow My Leader
Dr. Doolittle
Rikki Tikki Tavi
Misty of Chincoteague
The Red Fairy Book
The Blue Fairy Book
The Jungle Book
Lassie
Pollyanna - (for my girls)
A Bear Called Paddington
Li Lun, Lad of Courage
Mrs. Piggle -Wiggle
The Mouse & The Motorcycle - *One of my FAVORITES from childhood - I'm so excited about it - we may finish this one in the next few weeks rather than waiting *
The Big Wave
Little Lord Faunleroy (my son)
A Little Princess - (for my girls. I've heard RAVE reviews for this book)
Peter Pan
These are just some that we are looking at right now. I have twin 5 yo's and a 6.5 yo. We are going to do Social Studies, Science, and most of the Literature together. I will adapt the narrations and copywork to their age but most of our reading will be handled as a family. They each gleen thier own information from what we read. I believe this is the path the Lord has shown me in educating my children. Working and worshipping together as a family throughout our day.
Science/ Nature Study
One of the first things I add to our nature study schedule is the "Outdoor Hour" challenge that we recieve weekly from Barb- Harmony Art Mom. We schedule this for one day a week using Anna Botsford Comstock's, "Handbook of Nature Study" You can find the FREE online version of this book here. Or purchase it here from amazon.Our nature studies (which is science now) are so much more interesting and valuable as a family. Sometimes even the 4 yo's pick up things that my 6 yo and even I miss. We ALWAYS seem to learn something from each other!
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