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. 

Updates Over the Past Three Years

So it's been three years since I last posted. And much has changed since 2015. We're still a military homeschooling family. Princess is getting ready to start second grade, Butterfly is starting kindergarten, and Busy (one of the many changes) is 6 months old and trying to keep up.

So obviously Busy is new. She was a surprise, but very welcome, addition to our family last winter. It's been an experience learning to homeschool with an infant added into the mix, but I'm figuring it out and I'm hopeful for a productive year for all three of our girls.

We are also no longer living in Nevada. This past summer, we PCSed (aka moved) to Virginia. It's been hard leaving the village that we built for ourselves out west, but an exciting move since it puts us within about a half days drive of our family. And it made for an exciting family road trip across a desert, two mountain ranges, a prairie, and ten states. We're mostly settled into our new home, and trying to settle back into our normal routine. The biggest homeschool change we're finding (other than the new base doesn't have a co-op or other homeschool programs that we're used to) is having to register both Princess and Butterfly (Nevada I didn't have to register Princess until she turned seven last winter) with the local school district, testing Princess (Butterfly gets a pass this year since she won't be six before September 30, 2018), and then having to re-notify for both the older girl for next school year.

My hope is to actually keep the blog updated, and try to get in a post a week.