Resources for August 31st through Sept 4th

Bible and world religions

HarperCollins study bible
Kids Book Of World Religions

Literature

The Hobbit
Plutarch's Lives volume 1 (using for copy work)

Reading and Phonics

AlphaPhonics for Nicko

Poetry

Matteo-Robert Frost Reader
Nicko-My Dog Might Be A Genius

Shakespeare

Shakespeare Can Be Fun! A Midsummer Night's Dream for kids

Geography

Texas-Sea To Shining Sea series (ours is not paperback but a hardback from the library)
Outline maps from Power Practice

History

A Young People's History of the United States

Foreign Language

French-Hop Skip and Sing French
Play and Learn French

Spanish-Play and Learn Spanish

Science

Wildlife Watching With Charles Eastman

Grammar/English

Rod and Staff English for matteo

Math

Math U See I use this for both boys

Almost all of these except for the outline maps, English and Math are on loan from the Library! Free is cool!

Our new homeschool blog

I wanted to keep track of our school year-and what better way than by using a blog. This year we have a new schedule, along with mixing the Charlotte Mason methos into our schooling where we can. For any new homeschoolers who would like to follow what we are doing-I am going to add my lesson plans soon. :)

Our Schedule:

7:30 -bible and world religions

7:40- Literature

8:10- Matteo creative writing mon and thur-handwriting and spelling on tues, wed and friday
Nicko-Reading and phonics

8:30- Poetry, on mon, wed and fri
Shakespeare on tues and thur

8:40-Geography on mon and wed
History on tues, thurs, and fri

9:00-French lesson (spanish is with their dad after dinner)

9:20-Art appreciate mon and thurs
Music appreciation tues and fri
Library on Wed

9:40-Science mon, tues, thur and fri
Library on wed

10:20-Preschool mon, tues, thurs and fri
Matteo and Nicko do copywork

10:50-Grammar instruction for Matteo

11:00-Grammar/English work for Matteo on mon, tues, thurs, fri
Nicko-math
Library on wed

11:20-Matteo, math on mon, tues, thurs, and fri.