Shepherd's 1st Grade Curriculum

1) Literature - Ambleside Online Year 1 Booklist.

-Bed time reading: Peter Pan by James Barrie, Charlotte's Web by E. B. White, Little House in the Big Woods by Laura Ingles Wilder, The Velveteen Rabbit, Pocohantas by Ingri D'Aulaire

-Day time reading: Just So Stories by Rudyard Kipling, Aesops Fables by Milo Winter, Grimm Brothers Fairy Tales, Parables From Nature by Margaret Gatty.

-Daily Poetry: A Child's Garden of Verses by , Gyo Fugikawa

2) Nature Study/Science - Ambleside Online Curriculum

-Burgess Bird Book for Children by Thornton Burgess

-Handbook of Nature Study by Anna Botsford Comstock

-Hours in the Great Outdoors

-Study Mammals - Term 1, Birds - Term 2, Wild Flowers - Term 3

3) Math

-Right Start Math Level B (began in Kindergarten/Year 0...complete in 1st Grade/Year 1)

-Right Start Math Level C

4)Bible/History - Simply Charlotte Mason Curriculum

-Genesis through Deuteronomy and Ancient Egypt

-Then and Now Bible Maps

The Children's Story Bible by Catherine Vos

5) Phonics

- All About Spelling Level II

-Copywork/Penmanship (this will be a combination of AAS II and scripture/poetry writing).

6) Habit training

-Laying down the Rails

7) Foreign Language

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Shepherd's Kindergarten Curriculum

2009-2010 School Year

1) Arithmetic

*Right Start Math Level A

*Right Start Math Level B

2) History/Science

*Winter Promise's Hideaways in History (K/1st Grade)

3) Language Arts

*Winter Promise's Fast Track Phonics (Advanced K) - 1st semester

*Winter Promise's 1st grade -2nd semester

We've been working on the pre-req's for the Fast Track program over the summer...just a little each day. I am expecting us to complete the Fast Track in December, and plan on starting the 1st grade program in the spring of 2010.

4) Art

*Artistic Pursuits (An introduction to visual arts.) This curriculum builds on the fundamentals he learned at Sharing Tree last year in Enrichment class. He has already begun learning about many different artists...Van Gogh, Henri Matisse, Eric Carle, ect. so I think this will be perfect for us this year!

5) Foreign Language

*100 First Words in Spanish

6) Bible

*Five in a Row (once a week morning bible study)

*CBS (community bible study) Homeschool program - study of Acts. His curriculum will follow along with mine and he will attend this class (along with other homeschool students ranging from kindergarten-3rd grade) every Thursday morning. It is a FABULOUS study and I'm so excited he'll get to participate!

*On top of that, we will be attending Wednesday night church and Sunday morning church services. There is also a bible curriculum that correlates with Hideaways in History, so he will be doing THAT portion of the bible study daily.

7) Physical Education

* Fall Baseball through OPAA (Orange Park Athletic Assocation)

*Winter Basketball through the Fleming Island YMCA.

*Spring Soccer through the Fleming Island YMCA.

8) Literature

Ambleside Online Year 0 Booklist.

We are so excited to embark on this new journey with Shepherd! I would have laughed if someone would have told me that I would be homeschooling in 2009 (on top of having a newborn!), but God works in mysterious ways and this is his plan for our family this year.

My plan is to teach Shepherd 4 days per week, and allow the 5th day for CBS (Community Bible Study) as well as running errands. We will also have regular play-dates and field trips with a local Fleming Island COOP, AND will be attending Chapel once monthly with this COOP.