Ben is going to finish his world geography unit next week and then we’ll really get into his Kinder curriculum in December after our Thanksgiving trip. I’m planning on stretching this core from now until Aug of 2016 when he will be under compulsory education as a 1st grader. It won’t be hard to stretch because we have quite a few sequels or books by other authors of books that we will be reading this year. We’ll be doing Sonlight Core A bible and history, LA1, science, and Horizons K math. We will probably not have too much difficulty at this level (Ben seems to pick up math concepts on his own) and will continue straight on into Horizons 1 when we are finished. We’ll probably do the next level of our handwriting program also, maybe this summer.
Every now and then the kids will talk about some experiment or book that Hannah read and then they will say that Ben’s going to be doing it soon. It’s exciting to hear how much he remembers. 🙂
Below are the lists of the books and workbooks we’ll be using. I’m really excited to go through this core again as it is a really nice overview of a whole lot of topics and creates the ‘skeleton’ for our more in depth history studies in the coming years.
Sonlight Core A for Bible and History:
Core A Tips – CD
Core A Instructor’s Guide
A Grain of Rice
Beezus and Ramona
Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs
Dolphin Adventure
Dolphin Treasure
Egermeier’s Bible Story Book
Five True Dog Stories
Here’s a Penny
I Heard Good News Today
In Grandma’s Attic
James Herriot’s Treasury for Children
Johnny Appleseed
Johnny Appleseed: The Story of a Legend
Least of All
Little House in the Big Woods
Living Long Ago
Mary on Horseback
My Father’s Dragon
No Children, No Pets
Richard Scarry’s Please and Thank You Book
Sing the Word: From A to Z – CD
The Arnold Lobel Book of Mother Goose
The Boxcar Children
The Complete Adventures of Curious George
The House at Pooh Corner
The Hundred Dresses
The Light at Tern Rock
The Llama Who Had No Pajama
The Story About Ping
The Story of Dr. Dolittle
Twenty and Ten
Usborne Internet-Linked Children’s Encyclopedia
Wild Places
World/USA Markable Map with Markers
Book of Time
Timeline Figures A
Sonlight Language Arts 1:
LA1 Instructors Guide
A Big Ball of String
Put Me in the Zoo
The Best Trick
A Fly Went By
Green Eggs and Ham
I Can Read It Book 1
I Can Read It Book 2
I Can Read It Book 3
I Can Read It! Word Lists
Little Bear
One Fish, Two Fish…
The Bravest Dog Ever
The Cat in the Hat
Explode the Code 1
Explode the Code 2
Explode the Code 3
Sonlight Science A:
Science IG
Weather
How Flowers Grow
Isaac Newton and the Laws of Motion
Science Activities, Vol. 2
Discover & Do Level K DVD
Under the Sea
Caterpillars and Butterflies
Eggs and Chicks
Tadpoles and Frogs
Non-Consumable Science Supplies Kit
Science Supplies Kit A
Math:
Horizons Math K
MathTacular®
Keep up the great work!
~Luke
Thanks Luke!