our third homeschool year!
We have officially plunged into our third homeschool year (if you count preschool years this will be our fifth!). It's truly become just an extension of parenthood in our home and it has been absolute joy having these little men at home with me each day.
As I was planning ahead this past spring for the following school year a sweet online friend, Jane from Salty Tribe, announced she had a curriculum in the works that would truly be a lifestyle curriculum. I hesitate to even call it a curriculum, it's truly one of the best resources I have found for homeschool mamas. It flows with your day, no boxed curriculum, textbooks (unless you want) and is minimalistic and well thought out.
I was so excited when I began to look through the samplers she gave and immediately jumped in when she announced pre-orders were open! It is a beautiful mix of charlotte mason/unschooling/lifestyle homeschooling. So here is what we are using this year for each of the little men:
Benjamin (3rd grade)
Ray's intellectual arithmetic
pen pal monthly writing
McGuffey second reader with TGATB level 3 readers
Literature: Stone Fox (audio), My Side of the Mountain, On to Oregon
Piano Lessons and Handknitting
cursive practice
Awana
Ian (1st grade)
Ray's primary arithmetic
pen pal monthly writing
McGuffey first reader with TGATB level 1 reader
Literature: Little House Series (audio), Stuart Little, Boxcar Children
Piano Lessons and Handknitting
handwriting
Awana
We have many read alouds throughout the week, so this is where our history will naturally come into play this year. The flow of our days looks super casual, relaxed and natural - no announcement of "school time", we just flow into our day with lessons in the morning.
For science, we have a monthly subscription to kiwi and tinker crate which the boys love and we are also going to work through Exploring Nature with Children weekly and also a little bit with our local Wild + Free group!
This is the supply list I followed when shopping for school this year. Many of the items for art we already had on hand. I picked our math curriculum and that is it, you are set! We also follow this hymn of the month.
You can follow along with our days over on IG and if you are ever curious about anything homeschooling- message me!
As I was planning ahead this past spring for the following school year a sweet online friend, Jane from Salty Tribe, announced she had a curriculum in the works that would truly be a lifestyle curriculum. I hesitate to even call it a curriculum, it's truly one of the best resources I have found for homeschool mamas. It flows with your day, no boxed curriculum, textbooks (unless you want) and is minimalistic and well thought out.
I was so excited when I began to look through the samplers she gave and immediately jumped in when she announced pre-orders were open! It is a beautiful mix of charlotte mason/unschooling/lifestyle homeschooling. So here is what we are using this year for each of the little men:
Benjamin (3rd grade)
Ray's intellectual arithmetic
pen pal monthly writing
McGuffey second reader with TGATB level 3 readers
Literature: Stone Fox (audio), My Side of the Mountain, On to Oregon
Piano Lessons and Handknitting
cursive practice
Awana
Ian (1st grade)
Ray's primary arithmetic
pen pal monthly writing
McGuffey first reader with TGATB level 1 reader
Literature: Little House Series (audio), Stuart Little, Boxcar Children
Piano Lessons and Handknitting
handwriting
Awana
We have many read alouds throughout the week, so this is where our history will naturally come into play this year. The flow of our days looks super casual, relaxed and natural - no announcement of "school time", we just flow into our day with lessons in the morning.
For science, we have a monthly subscription to kiwi and tinker crate which the boys love and we are also going to work through Exploring Nature with Children weekly and also a little bit with our local Wild + Free group!
This is the supply list I followed when shopping for school this year. Many of the items for art we already had on hand. I picked our math curriculum and that is it, you are set! We also follow this hymn of the month.
You can follow along with our days over on IG and if you are ever curious about anything homeschooling- message me!
