2018-2019 Curriculum Plans

So these are our current plans for this school year. Knowing us, some things may end up changing, but I'm hoping for a productive year since we're not starting a lot of new programs.


Princess: Second Grade

• Build Your Library Level 2 (we've used this literature based curriculum for the past two years) 
• First Language Lessons Level 2
• Pentime Handwriting Grade 2 Transition 
• All About Spelling Level 1 (This is new for us this year since the curriculum we started last year just wasn't a good fit for either Princess or me. Hoping to go through Level 1 fairly quickly.)
• Bookshark Level 2 Regular and Intermediate Readers (We got behind last year, so she's finishing the last handful of books from Regular before moving on to Intermediate.)
• Math U See Beta
• Oak Meadow Healthy Living From the Start (doing the Second Grade Lessons)
• Family Time Fitness (we lost our homeschool PE class she was doing at the Youth Center, so we're going to try PE at home since I got a good deal on it through Homeschool Buyer's Co-op)
• Teaching Music To Children
• Photography (this is something she's specifically asked to study, and I'm pulling from several resources starting with a Udemy kid's photography course.)
• Song School Latin 1
• Telling God's Story Year 1 (We started this last year, but got out of the habit because the girls were doing a daily Bible Study with my mom (including a handful of the lessons from this book. It's an amazing series, and I think probably the only progressive homeschool Bible curriculum I've seen. Definitely worth checking out for unfundamentalist Christian homeschoolers.) 
• Junior Ballet class (Princess has been dancing since she was three and a half, and we found a studio for her to transfer to here. They have a homeschool class at her level that meets during the day.)
• Brownies 

Butterfly: Kindergarten

• Moving Beyond the Page 4/5 (We started this last year, but she wasn't quite ready for formal school work at the beginning of the school year as a very young summer birthday 4 year old. We'll be starting with Week 10.)
• Sonlight Language Arts K (We tried Ordinary Parent's Guide to Teaching Reading that worked wonderfully for Princess last year. Butterfly has a very different personality combined with some of the same issues we had with Moving Beyond the Page last year. We're trying out Sonlight's full language art program this year, and hopefully it will be a better fit.)
• Pentime Handwriting Grade 1 Book 1 (They don't have a kindergarten level, but Grade 1 is divided into two separate books.)
• Math U See Primer
• Oak Meadow Healthy Living From the Start (doing the the kindergarten lessons)
• Teaching Music To Children (doing with Princess)
• Telling God's Story Year 1 (With Princess) 
• Gymnastics (She switched to tumbling after a year and a half of dance because she didn't "like doing what Mrs. 'Dance Teacher' says." Gymnastics has been a better fit for her, and she's excited to start back at a bigger gym this fall taking a class through a local Parks and Recreation program.)
• Daisies 
• Build Your Library Level 0 (We may possibly start this since both this level and the Moving Beyond the Page 4/5 are 30 week programs, and Butterfly should finish 4/5 well before the end of the school year.)

Busy

• Learning to walk, speak English, plus all the little bits and pieces she picks up.