Our All Together Curriculum Choices

Its curriculum choice time!  This year we will be doing a few subjects all together.  We will also be branching out from our previous curriculum that we have used for the past few years.  I am excited about these new choices and have high hopes that it will be a great fit for our family.

Along with the changes this year we will also be doing a co-op that my kids are really excited about.  Our co-op classes will be Science, Art, Music, Spanish, and a Lego Club.  Zach will also get to participate in this co-op, and he will be doing Science, Art, and a general preschool readiness class.

For History this year we will be using The Mystery of History.  I had considered this for last year but decided to stick with My Fathers World.  But since we are doing a co-op this year that includes Science I really wanted to branch out.   I love the way The Mystery of History teaches history in a chronological order.  When I was a kid I did not make the connection that the history that I was learning in school was happening at the same time that the Bible was being written!  How amazing that I get to teach this to my kids!  My hope is that they can make that connection a lot sooner than I did!  I am also hoping that I will learn a bit this year as well. I purchased the textbook, the audio CD's, timeline figures, and the reproducible download for use along with Volume 1.

Science this year will be Apologia's Astronomy.  For co-op we were able to pick which one we wanted to do, and they will all three be working through this one.  Since we had studied animals the past few years we chose to do space this year.  We have never used Apologia before but it has been on my radar for a few years and I am so excited to actually get to use it this year.






We also chose to do Apologia's Worldview curriculum for our Bible studies this year.  We will be using Who is God?  I bought the textbook, note booking journal, the Jr. Journal and the coloring book to use this year.  The coloring book will be for Zach, not sure how he will like it but I thought that he would need something to work in along with the older boys.




I will also be sharing our 5th Grade, 2nd Grade and Pre-K 4 homeschooling choices, so stay tuned to see what we will be using for those.

UPDATE:

Sorry I forgot to add what our read aloud books would be!  Whoops!!

We will be doing a reading list to go along with our Mystery of History Volume 1 studies.  Those will include:

• The Golden Goblet
• The Cat of Bubastes
• Hittite Warrior
• The Children's Homer
• God King
• Aesop's Fables
• Victory on the Walls
• The Young Carthaginian
• The Bronze Bow

Most of these we own, some will be checked out from the library, and the others I have on my Kindle.

We also really enjoyed reading the Christian Hero's Then and Now books last year, so I picked some that I thought we would enjoy reading this year.  These are the ones that we will be reading this year:

• Jim Elliot
• C.S. Lewis
• Dietrich Bonhoeffer
• Eric Liddell
• Francis Asbury
• Brother Andrew
• Hudson Taylor

I might be a bit ambitious that we can finish all of these, but with some planning I have the schedule all made out and hopefully we will accomplish it!

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