I am pretty excited about this coming school year. Harry will be in Primary 4/2nd grade and Kathy will be in Primary 2/ Kindergarden. I have been looking at the curriculum for a long time. Instead of taking a traditional textbook approach we are using the curriculum from Simply Charlotte Mason along with supplements from Ambleside Online. I found out about the CM method when I had begun pre-K work with Harry. Maybe one of these days I'll take the time to go more into why and how I was drawn to this method.
We are starting with the Ancient Greece course since we did ancient Egypt last year with another book. I was drawn to the Simply Charlotte Mason curriculum because they offer their books as ebooks. Living overseas, I did not want to have to pay for those shipping costs! I love my Kindle and the books work really well. Any books that weren't specifically SCM, and would be better to have in print, I was able to order from amazon uk.
For Language Arts we will continue with copywork, poetry from AO Year 2, and literature selections from SCM and AO. Kathy will begin reading this year using the Abeka phonics books and she'll also start learning cursive.
I was able to find a really fun looking maths curriculum for Harry that is Scottish. Kathy will just do printed worksheets.
While I was homeschooled some when I was younger and even helped teach my younger siblings, the CM method is still new to me and it will be fun to see how it works for us.
The plan is to begin next week and maybe I'll share a little about our homeschool day occasionally.
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