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| Please ignore the mess in the background. Here is a rare picture of all 3 kids at the table for school-time! |
Our third official year of homeschooling begins June
4th. But, this year will be much
different than the previous two years. This year I will not only school our
oldest (2nd grade), but also our two Middles (ages 3 & 2).
WOW!!! Can I tell you how nervous I am? Yet I’m also so excited to see them
learn and grow!! I didn’t get to school our oldest at this young age, so I’m
bursting with excitement, joy, and overwhelming anxiety all at the same time!
Anxiety you ask? Yep! I have it all planned out on
paper and even a rough schedule outlined so we can mostly stay on task. This
year will really stretch me, because I am an on-time, task oriented, Type A
personality and well…that doesn’t compute with my Middles. So, it should be
interesting, fun and a wonderful year of learning for everyone!
I wanted to share with you our preschool curriculum
choices for our upcoming school year. The links I am providing in no way give
me commission or any compensation. It’s merely to give you a reference. I did
not necessarily purchase my products from the site I link to. I researched and
found the least expensive option and ordered/bought from there. I’ll share more
about that at the end of this post, so stay tuned!!! Next week I’ll share how
we structure our school days.
Okay, so our choices for Preschool are obviously less
than those for our 2nd grader. But, somehow that makes this task
much more daunting! Nevertheless, I have finally decided on the following
choices.
BrainyBaby Series: Last year my
grandmother bought the entire Brainy Baby system for about a quarter of the
original price!! And I plan to use every last bit of it with my Middles! We
will use it to introduce our shapes, colors, numbers, letters and music this
year. I also have Spanish, Sign Language and Art, but that will have to wait
another year or so. I’m not that
ambitious!!
ABeka: I will use this
curriculum for our Numbers and Letters. We will do one Number per month and one
Letter per week for Mister Mouse. Miss Priss will probably just color along and
get some of it, but I don’t expect her to get it all. She just turned two, so
it could get interesting! But, I do want her to know her numbers for sure, so
that’s what we’ll mainly focus on this year with her.
I will also use the A Beka curriculum for most of our Arts and Crafts projects. They
have some fun, creative and easy ideas that I’d like to take advantage of.
Bible: I don’t have a particular curriculum to use in this area. I like to
read the Bible stories to them and find pictures they can color or activities
we can do to reinforce what God’s word says. We will do this Bible reading time
with Mister Bull as part of our Family Bible time during our school day.
As most Homeschooling Mom’s will tell you, it is so
wonderful to be able to find and print so many FREE and wonderful papers online now!! I use these papers as fillers and
supplementals to our other curriculum.
Here are a few of my favorite spots to find them:
Kidszone (easy
to find, sorted by grade or topic)
BiblePrintables (some great printables on this site. Easy to find too!)
All Kids Network (a fabulous resource for crafts, worksheets & activities!)
All Kids Network (a fabulous resource for crafts, worksheets & activities!)
Some blogs I subscribe to also have stores where they
offer their own curriculum. I’ve been very pleased with the ones I’ve
purchased from:
(be sure and check out her Freebies tab too!)
So, that’s our curriculum for Preschool! What’s your
favorite Preschool curriculum? I would love to hear what you are using or have
used in the past. Or do you just do your own thing?
Now, I promised you I would fill you in on all my
curriculum deals. Honestly, it takes quite a bit of effort to find the best
deals, but believe me…it pays off!!! Here’s where I search for my deals.
(a
subsidiary of Ebay)
Individual Manufacturers (A Beka, RightStart)
Mardel - Yes, the Christian book store!! They have 2
semi-annual Homeschool/Education Sales and I watch for others throughout the
year! In fact, I got our Apologia curriculum 30% off this year!!! YAY!!
Bibliomania (a local Homeschool re-sale/consignment
shop. I don’t find too much here for what I need, but sometimes my teacher’s
manuals and our A Beka readers for
cheap!)
So, there ya have it!! I take several weeks usually
to search out the above websites and stores and factor in upcoming sales,
coupons, discounts, shipping, etc. before making my final orders. Like I said,
it can be a lengthy process, but it’s well worth it for the money I save!
Feel free to share in the comments or leave a link
back to your own post!! I love reading
all your tips and ideas! I am always open to researching for new curriculum to
see if it would work for us! We learn by sharing!! Thanks for stopping by!
Blessings,
Annette
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2 comments:
My favorite preschool curriculum is Heart of Dakota's Little Hands to Heaven.
http://www.heartofdakota.com/little-hands.php
I'm also going to use some of this curriculum (I won it at a FB party, so I thought I might as well try it; it looks pretty good).
A to Z Toddler and Preschool Curriculum by Toddler Bites
http://www.currclick.com/product/32459/A-to-Z-Toddler-and-Preschool-Curriculum?manufacturers_id=322&it=1
Thanks for the links, Sarah!! I'm going to definitely check them out!! I think for now I'll stick with what I've got, since I already have it. But these are worth a look for the future! I'm a curriculum junkie, so I've gotta be careful though!
Blessings,
Annette
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