Yikes! This is way overdue, but we've had so much going on this year. I went back to work full-time for Automattic Inc., the company behind WordPress.com, Jetpack, WooCommerce and more. As expected, my contract with GameTruck was not renewed when they decided to go with an agency for their social …
5th Grade Curriculum 2016 – 2017
Language Arts Reading Interactive Reading Literature Notebook and Novel Notes for Any Fiction Book Discovering Fiction Student’s Book 2: A Reader of American Short Stories Build Your Library Grade 5: Various Novels, Short Stories, and Poems Spelling / Vocabulary All About …
Creating a Diverse Reading Curriculum for Any Grade
For some subjects, using a boxed curriculum works, but when it comes to teaching Reading, it can be very difficult to find one that includes diverse viewpoints. One of the things that I think about when planning my daughter's Reading course of the study is how to "color the canon" and provide a …
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4th Grade Curriculum 2015 – 2016
We've been schooling for six weeks already and I can't believe that I did not post what we are using yet. If you've been following along, you know that we changed how we are doing things again as last year was an epic failure! To start, I set our homeschooling goals, and then I organized our year. …
3rd Grade Curriculum 2014 – 2015
We're back at it, although later than I would have liked; I am still in planning mode. Rather than starting on August 16, like we've done in the past, we will be starting right after Labor Day. Last year we attempted to do six-weeks on and six-weeks off, but failed miserably. We started off strong, …
2nd Grade Curriculum and Planning
We are gearing up to start homeschooling again after a sporadic year of not meeting the goals I set for first grade. While we have settled in nicely here in Arizona, the move left us struggling to finish all of the lessons that we started last June. So, this year, taking into account that we are no …
First Grade Curriculum (REVISED)
We've made adjustments to our 1st grade curriculum over the last month. I wasn't quite sure how to work this year as we were moving and I thought we'd have more space and then, rather unexpectedly, my Mother-In-Law died and then we were not moving... It was a heck of a summer! Anyway, here is our …
Planning First Grade Curriculum 2012-2013
We started first grade on June 1 although we are still working our way through some Kindergarten-level things, specifically Reception Year of the MEP curriculum and All About Spelling Level 1. Here is our by-no-means comprehensive list of what we are using for First …
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Kindergarten in review
So we are finishing up on Kindergarten and it's been a very full year! Below you will find mini reviews about the resources that we used this year. What would I have done differently? Not over plan. I went crazy thinking that I would not have enough materials to cover the whole year, but my …
Back At It: UPDATED Kindergarten Curriculum 2011-2012
ETA: When you know better, do better! What you will find below the line is the WORST THING YOU CAN DO FOR YOUR KINDERGARTENER. No seriously; do not do what I did below. There is NO need for a curriculum at this age. There is NO need for a schedule at this age. There IS a need …
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Our Kindergarten TOOLS 2011 – 2012
READ THE UPDATE HERE After reading the awesome blog posts and curriculum summary over at Satori Smiles, I purchased The Well-Trained Mind: A Guide to Classical Education at Home (Third Edition) and devoured it in less than two days. I LOVE the classical approach to homeschooling but definitely …
