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Sunday, August 18, 2013

Our 2013-2014 - 1st Grade Curriculum

It’s been a busy summer and I’m glad I started our planning early in the summer so I had everything ordered and ready before school started.  I feel really good about our choices for this year and I’m looking forward to an exciting year of learning with my 1st graders!


Here's my plan for our 1st Grade Curriculum...
  • Bible: Grapevine Studies – Old Testament, AWANA Sparks
  • Phonics/Language: A Beka Language 1 & A Beka Letters & Sounds 1
  • Reading: Abeka Readers, Library Books
  • Writing: A Reason for Handwriting – A, Writer’s Workshop
  • Spelling: All About Spelling – Level 1
  • Math: Math U See - Alpha
  • History: Story of the World – Volume 1 (Ancient Civilization)
  • Art:  How to Teach Art to Children, Misc. Art Projects, Co-op Classes
  • Language: American Sign Language
  • Science: - Library, Documentaries, Co-op Classes

Calendar Time & Bible: Like last year I plan to start our day with the pledge, calendar time and singing. We'll then go into our virtue of the week and continue to rotate through these all year so they really get instilled in the girls. We'll practice our verse for Sparks and do the lesson together over M-W and then we’ll do our Grapevine lessons Mon/Th/Fr.  The girls are SO excited about this curriculum!

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Phonics/Language/Reading: For our Phonics and Language lessons we’ll be going through A Beka’s Language 1 & Letters & Sounds 1. I also got a set of A Beka 1st grade readers 2nd hand and I have a set of A Beka readers from when I learned to read back in the 80’s. We’ll continue to do daily read aloud’s and get library books for reading as well. The girls have been reading through them over the summer and have really enjoyed them.

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Writing/Spelling: For writing this year we’ll work on our handwriting with A Reason for Handwriting book A. We’ll also be doing a writers workshop weekly where the girls write a story and then revise and publish it throughout the week. We’re so excited to start All About Spelling Level 1 this year for our spelling curriculum.

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Math: We’re continuing on with Math U See Alpha this year. The girls did great with Primer last year and we’re excited to start a new year. 

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History: We’re starting Story of the World Volume 1 this year which will be spent in Ancient Civilization. I’ve heard great things about it and I’m excited to see how they like it. We’ll probably do some of the recommended projects that go along with the lessons. 

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Art: For our Art we’ll more than likely do a variety of projects throughout the year as well as do art through our Co-op in the Spring. 

Language: Since their Uncle Josh is deaf we’ll continue on with. They already know the alphabet and a variety of vocab, but we’ll make it a tad more formal this year and start putting sentences together and having basic conversations. I have a bunch of old ASL textbooks that we’ll mix and match to fit our needs. 

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Science: The girls love science and are super into documentaries. All summer we’ve watched a ton of documentaries including the BBC’s Planet Earth, Discovery Channel’s North America and a whole variety of Shark Week episodes. I plan to continue checking out books from the library that interest them as well as watch documentaries and then possibly do a Science class with our Co-op. 

Linking up with iHomeschool Network for the "Not" Back-to-School Blog Hop Curriculum Week! 


1 comment:

  1. I really like the looks of those readers! We like All about Spelling, it is part of our Primary Arts of Language Writing program.

    Looks like a great year!

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