What we are learning about in 2015

I am beyond excited for this year… really…. I am not sure who is more excited, me or the boys :)

back in 2010 when I was researching all about Homeschooling Curriculum I found Winter Promise Children around the World, and I fell in love with it. I wanted to do it that year but it is for grades 2nd-6th. So I waited, and this year we finally get to do it! The kids are really excited too. We are going to travel the world through books, activities and food. I hope we can travel for real one day, but this will have to do for now. Here is a link to their site, but they have really updated the program I have the old set. It has a lot more books the new one is more ebooks.

 Since we are learning about cultures and people all over the world, for science we are studying anatomy and the human body! The boys are soooo excited. They have been asking for a while now, and I am finally getting my act together and doing it! I used a wonderful blog HERE I used her plan as a skeleton for my plans I created. I also got some of the books she used too. There are a few more but these are the main ones. I am using these plus activities and short videos I found on pinterest.

 For our "Main" focus this year is on world geography and cultures. Here are some of the books we will be using. As we "visit" each place we go to the Library and get extra books just to read and look at to get more info on that place. In this program we will cover some world history, art, music, there is also a study of child labor and more.

 Here are some more books many of these tell history of how things are made, and also our geography books (well some of them)

 Here are some of the read a loud books we will be reading.

 For Language Arts….
K/1st - I am trying Queens Homeschooling program this year instead of Well Trained mind.
K/1st Delightful Reading Program, (from simply Charlotte mason) + reading tons of books : )
3rd Grade - Primary Language Lessons.
5th Intermediate Language Lessons
3rd/5th Drawing into the Heart of Reading program.
3rd/5th Writing - Story starters. - We will use this a little here and there as Ethan wants to be challenged in his creative writing.
Winston grammar - and Grammar tales books
Spelling we use - Modern Speller (free on line) or we also use Spelling Wisdom (not pictured)

 ART! - we have some art build in but I love it so we try to do more if we have time. No schedule we just read and Study what we want to from these books.

 Nature Study- the kids to do this on their own I do not schedule it, they have nature journals and they read these books on there own, and of course we go on nature walks too.

 For Math we continue on with Math-U-See I am totally happy with it.
K/1st -Alpha
3rd - Gamma
5th Epsilon
We also do fun games and activities from pinterest, and I LOVE reading books on the subject I am addicted to these fun math start books they can add up in price though, so I love when I can pick them up at used books sales for a steal! We are also enjoying Life of Fred books

Preschool-
I have no pictures for that but we are just playing games, doing puzzles and activities that I am finding on Pinterest. For the Ryan I did an alphabet Tree and activities to go along with that and I will be starting that sometime this year with him as well.

Other things….

Spanish- The boys really want to learn Spanish, and Will is wanting to head that up this year, and I am excited. We are also going to try to pick up sign language again this year. It fell to the side last year.


Habit Training- Laying Down the Rails and other CM books and activities on Pinterest
We also have some fun charts, and calendars to help keep us organized and developing good habits. More to come later on that.

Stress Free for Kids program HERE is a link- we have done only two lessons so far and I LOVE it!
my kids really enjoy the stores and activities and it is really really important Skill to learn to deal with stress, controlling anger, and other emotional things. I also add my own things to it too. I would LOVE to teach this in a co-op someday, and I called and asked the company if I could and they said yes!

For PE we have a home school group we are playing with. I also got this really fun Yoga game- kids love it Dallin is super cute, and loves doing Yoga, though out the say he will just Strike a pose and say "Mom look I am doing Yoga!" HERE is a link I also got a FREE down load of a home school at home PE program.

We have a whole closet full of there games, activities, poetry books games and more that the kids do as well. But this is our Learning Curriculum for this year.