Back to school, back to life

Well, we will be getting back to school here at the GreenHouse in September. The Dearest Hubby and I are making the final choices for this years curriculum and I think we have chosen well.

At first we were headed down a different path of curricula but we decided to take that left turn at Albuquerque and piece it together instead. It has been a tough battle whittling it down to the ones below, there are some really great curricula out there to choose from! We had originally set our hearts on a boxed curricula and then God stepped in and pointed us to another path.
He is always right, so we decided not to be headstrong about it and quickly sent the boxed stuff back.

What are we using this year, you ask? Well it will be a conglomerate of different books, but it most have the same theme: Charlotte Mason's living books.

I started reading Charlotte Mason's books on education earlier this month and I agree with most of what is said, plus I see where my kids would really respond well to this type of learning style. One thing about homeschooling, you get to know your kids really well.

So this year we have:

For science; Exploring Creation with Astronomy by Jeanne Fullbright.

I have heard from several families and other sources that this is a great course! I really hope the kids are going to love it!

With all of the information and hands on experiments, I know this will keep the kids interested ALL year!
For those hands on experiments we are going to go with the Creation Sensation science kit;

to get us through all the experiments!
Also I got the lapbooks from Knowledge Box Central

Just in case we needed something else to do! Hahaha!

For grammar, I chose to add Simply Grammar;

While continuing to read The Grammar Land Story, which we got on a massive download last year. The kids really love this story and they are learning at the same time!

With my existing McGuffey Readers;

 For math, I will use for the girlchild Alpha Omega's Horizons;

This is what we used for her last year and it did such a wonderful job helping her to gain confidence in her math skills! She really needed the spiral method that is used with this curriculum.

For the boy, it will be Alpha Omega's LIFEPAC Math;

Using this one for two reasons; one, it was given to me at no cost and two, the boy was VERY bored with the Horizons spiral method, though he is solid in his math skills because of it. We wanted to try a mastery approach to see how he does. If it doesn't work, we will go back to Horizons.

For history, Dearest Hubby and I have looked and looked for curriculum and most fall short for the Historian. So in my quest to please the Sweet Historian aka Dearest Hubby, I came across the Grueber Narrative History Series. He seems pleased with the info so far and it is a go for the purchase!
So we will start at the begining and get this book first;

We will add to the series if it passes the Dearest Hubby's high standards.


For handwriting, I have chosen The Getty-Dubay Italic Handwriting Series;

Book C for the boy;

Book E for the girl;

I really like this style and I hope it will help Josh with his handwriting. Belle is very interested in calligraphy and this is very near that. Chancery cursive is a basic style used and this will help her learn it that much easier. Then she and I can sit down and do more detailed writing!

For bible, I have purchased Studying God's Word Book C for both kids to use, since it is a study in the Old Testament.

We will also supplement with a book I found at the resale shop Bible Readings for the Home circa 1943.

It seems like a great reference book to talk about scripture. It is also in great shape for its age! I love finding old books!!!



I also plan on various unit studies throughout the year. First off will be a unit on September 11th from In the Hands of A Child that I got from Currclick posted by Freely Educate;

Well those are the basics, I am still looking for a health curriculum that I like and I want to add art but it may have to wait for a few months.

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