Monday, June 19, 2017

Curriculum Plans for 2017-2018

It's that time again to start planning for the next homeschool year.  I love that as time goes on we can continue to add new things and explore new curriculum and ideas while also keeping with things that we love!  Here are our plans for the 2017-2018 school year.

First of all, the biggest change is that we are joining a Catholic Schoolhouse co-op!  I have looked at this program for years and always loved the concept of it, but always got nervous when it was time to take the leap.  But this year, we leaped and we couldn't be more excited.  As each new school year approaches I like to take time to pray and reflect about my needs and preferences as the mother and teacher and then our children's needs and preferences.  These were a few things I wanted to focus on as priorities this next year:
  • Continuing to prioritize faith based learning and a relationship with God (attending daily Mass, family and individualized prayer time, praying the Rosary more together, etc)
  • Foster and increase a love for learning
  • Finding a way to promote more in depth the "extra" subjects beyond Reading, Writing and Arithmetic (music, art, science, history) more consistently each week
  • Promoting and fostering positive friendships consistently for each child
  • Allowing for our children to gain role models and respect elders outside of me as their mother and teacher
When thinking about and focusing on these priorities I realized that a Catholic Schoolhouse co - op promotes each of these!  We will meet one day a week for 4 hours with a wonderful group of Catholic homeschooling families in our community where each of our children will be in different "classrooms" (including our 1/ 1/2 year old in the nursery).  They will learn about history, art, music, religion, math, Latin and memory work each week from different instructors.  This coming year we will be doing Tour 1 which is American History.


In the past we have enrolled or strongly used Seton for our work at home, but with this big change of adding Catholic Schoolhouse we are also making ANOTHER big change.  We decided to switch to focusing on Catholic Heritage Curricula as our main core at home.  We have used a lot of their products in the past and love them, but a huge reason we chose to make this change is because their curriculum follows a four day week (instead of 5 days with Seton).  So now on the days that we do our Catholic Schoolhouse Curriculum we can focus on that for 4 hours and then be done for the day and not feel like we are getting behind.  So, here are our plans for the 2017-2018 school year!

Ryan (7 1/2 years old) 2nd/3rd Grade

Mathematics:
Religion:

English/Spelling:
Reading:

Geography:
Handwriting:
Science:
History:

Latin:

Art/Music/Enrichment:

Connor (5 1/2 years old) 1st/2nd Grade


Mathematics:
Religion: 
  • Faith and Life Series:  Our Heavenly Father
    • He did Seton's 1st grade Religion book last year, but we choose to do CHC's 1st grade religion curriculum this year because we are not yet preparing him to receive his First Reconciliation and First Communion this next year.
  • Catholic Mosiac
  • Catechesis of the Good Shepard: Level 2

English/Spelling
Reading:
  • Memoria Press Story Time Treasures
    • Billy and Blaze
    • Blaze and the Forest Fire
    • The Story About Ping
    • Keep the Lights Burning, Abby
    • Stone Soup
    • The Little House
    • Miss Rumphius
  • Independent Reading

Geography:
  • Maps, Charts and Graphs B
Handwriting:
Science:
History:

Latin:
 

Art/Music/Enrichment:
  • Weekly Art Lessons with Catholic Schoolhouse
  • Weekly Piano Lessons
  • Memoria Press Kindergarten Enrichment
    • He did the 1st grade enrichment along with his older brother last year.  This next year I am going to teach the Kindergarten and 2nd grade, so he can follow with either and / or both of them.
Luke (4 years old) Pre School / Kindergarten


Mathematics:
Religion:

English/Phonics/Handwriting:
Reading:
Art/Music/Enrichment:
  • Weekly Art Lessons at Catholic Schoolhouse
  • Making Music Praying Twice at Catholic Schoolhouse
  • Memoria Press Kindergarten Enrichment
Peter ( 1 1/2) - Tot School

Reading Stories, Cuddling, Playtime and hopefully taking a nap once a day for us to have some time to focus on more structured lesson time!

See what we have done in the years past at our Homeschooling Page!




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