Homeschool Journal

This year I have had the privilege of homeschooling my daughters. One is in preschool and the other is in pre-kindergarten. It has been a lot of fun, and a learning experience for me as well as them!

Discovering their 5 senses.

We started the year by by buying curriculum through Sonlight. We purchased the Kindergarten Multi-Subject Package.  This package is designed for kids age 5 through 7. It came with an enormous amount of books and teaching curriculum. Truth be told I was completely overwhelmed!

Even though we had a 3 and 4 year-old we decided to get the Kindergarten curriculum so that we could use it for more than one year. We also felt that our oldest was ready for the reading, math and handwriting at the Kindergarten level.

It took me a really long time to sort through all the curriculum, and to get a feel for how the teacher's manual was organized. Then I had to pair down the subjects... a lot! This involved a lot of prayer and a lot of chocolate!

And like most journeys, the path we ended up taking was very different from what I thought it would be. But, we are happy, and it is going great!

Here is what we ended up with:
The Kindergarten Package came with:
Horizon's Math- K
Handwriting Without Tears 
The Sonlight Reading Curriculum with the Grade K Readers

We have been using only these three elements for our Pre-Kindergartner. As we suspected, they were just right for her. However, the rest of the curriculum was too advanced and had to be set aside for next year. We will definitely get more than one year out of our purchase.

Then came the surprise. We ended up borrowing the My Father's World Kindergarten Curriculum. We have loved this. We have used that curriculum for our Science, Bible, Letter and weekly theme. This has flowed nicely into our weekly themed book basket we started last year. This was also very easy to use with both girls and they can fully participate at each of their levels.

Rose, our Preschooler has her own set of age appropriate workbooks... more on that later.