Homeschool Curriculum 2010

Kindergarten

The "core" subjects that we do everyday are:

Bible: My ABC Bible Verses: Hiding God's Word in Little Hearts
Math: Horizons Math
Phonics/Reading: Phonics Pathways and Explode the Code
Handwriting: A Reason for Handwriting

The rest of our subjects we rotate each day (i.e. Science on Monday, Music on Tuesday, etc.):

Science: A collection of experiments and activities from the internet and various resources
Music: Nothing too formal in the beginning, but we may add Musikgarten curriculum as the year progresses.
Art: Various projects from the internet and various resources.
Geography: I wasn't planning on doing anything formal with this yet, but Cole got a globe for his birthday and he seems so interested in the details that this week I ordered Beginning Geography.

And, of course, we supplement with lots of books from the library, games, and my personal favorite, field trips! Our first one was to the Science Museum last week. (Wish I'd taken my camera!)


Preschool
I'm not doing anything too formal for Max, but I did want him to feel he had some special "school" time, and not feel left out of all the learning fun. So, besides including him whenever I can in Cole's work, I'm using some ideas I have found online, mostly from this site: Letter of the Week preparatory Curriculum. Also, I found some great books on Amazon that he loves to work on. We bought three:
Let's Cut Paper
Let's Color
Let's Sticker and Paste

And don't worry, I haven't forgotten about Seth! He's still in the wonderful world of morning naps and that's when we do most of our school work. It won't be long, though (sniff, sniff) before he'll be dropping that nap. Then he'll join in on more of the fun, too!

So that's it! At least for now. I'm sure I'll learn all kinds of things this year, and at the end of it I'll know all the things I should have done differently. But that's ok. I'm having fun in the process, and more importantly, the kids are too!