Kickbuttmama's Home Education

I've been working non-stop for the last 6 weeks, but I've finally finished our curriculum for the coming year. We're again combining History, Geography, Science, art/music, Foreign Language and Mythology & Social Studies (this year we're doing Economics) and the kids will do math, language arts & Reading seperately.

I used several sources for our worksheets and lesson plans this year:

Spelling : Spelling Connections

Super Scolar and Hooked on ___ Grade workbooks ...I have more resources, I'll add them in later.

You can see the full curriculum here:

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DJ's 2010 Curriculum (from 2nd through 4th grade)

Xman's 2010 Curriculum (1st through 2nd grade)

Now that my boys are a little older I'm getting a bit more serious with their homeschooling. Here's the plan for the coming year...(starting August 2nd - as August 1 is a holiday)

Lesson Plans for each bullet can be found at the link : http://www.lessonplanspage.com

For most Printouts can be printed from http://www.enchantedlearning.com ; or www.dltk-teach (for art or holidays)

Resources: What Your First Grader Needs To Know (witten as "ppg" in the curriculum) and What Your Kindergartner Needs To Know (written as "pg" in the curriculum) lesson plan page can be used for each and back-up books are listed.

Daniel (7y/o)

Reading Comprehension:

• Collage, Rhyming in Poetry ppg18-32

• Using Quotation Marks

• Alphabetical order

• Syllables

• Tongue Twisters

• Who, What, Where, When, Why & How

• Sequencing

• Frog & Toad Book Series:

  • Blends

  • Digraphs

  • Story Maps

  • Emotions

• Reading Silently

• Story Development

• Letter Writing

• Journal Writing

• Reporting (outline, thesis, explanatory paragraph)

• Paragraph structure

• Using a Library

• Aesop's Fables ppg 33-98

• Drama ppg 99-103

• Sayings ppg 103-106

Grammar:

• Past/ Present / Future – Tenses

• -ing and -ed

• Re- and Un-

• -s and -es

• Contractions

• Verbs

  • “Caribbean Dream”

• Adjectives

  • “Carousel of Poetry”

  • “Go Away, Big Green Monster”

• Nouns

• Pronouns

• Adverbs

• Capital Letters

• Punctuation

• Phonograph

• Quantifiers

• Models of Inference

• Using the dictionary

• homonyms, synonyms, antonyms

• Enunciation, pronunciation

Spelling/Vocabulary:

• Spelling Workbook (2^nd Grade)

• 3^rd Grade Spelling & Vocabulary from www.aaaspell.com

Writing:

• Cursive Workbook

• Writing Workbook

• Numbers Workbook

• See Grammar, Comp & spelling

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Math: back up lessons can be found at www.aaaknow.com

• Grouping & Place Values

• Counting by 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 10 pg 217

• Addition ppg 246, 248-250

• Subtraction ppg 247, 250-251

• Addition Sentences

• Subtraction Sentences

• Different ways of making the same number

• Graphing ppg 243

• < > = ppg 241-242,251

• Estimation and Classification

• Fraction Pyramid

• “Inchworm and a half
  - measurements

• 2 Dimensional objects

• Symmetry

• Making change for a Dollar

• 1-digit multiplication by repeated addition

• Even, Odd Song

• Cardinal Numbers

• Basic Fractions ppg 243-244

• The Hundred Table ppg 254-255

• Counting, Reading & Writing to 1000

• Zero Place Holder

• Basic Multiplication and Division (using addition and subtraction)

• Multiplication Properties of 0 & 1

• Decimals

• Concept of Ratios

• Common & Metric Measurements (see Science)

• Number Patterns

• Ordinals

• Sets ppg 234

• Using a Number Line

• Solving Word Problems

Science:

• Rocks:

  • Rock Hardness Scale (lessonplanspage.com)

  • Weight & Balance of Rocks

  • Rock Cycle

• Trees

  • Tree Rings, “My Life As A Tree”

• Grouping & Classification

• Common Birds & Insects – Summer and Winter

• Seeds, Buds, Plants & Flowers pg 244-253

• Day & Night ppg 309

• Magnets & Forces (inc. Gravity) pg 271-274

• Dinosaurs

• Food Chain ppg 277-278

• Effects of Weather on the Earth

• Effects of Seasons on Living Things

• Simple Constellations

  • Exploring Space ppg 303-308

• Buoyancy

• Matter ppg 292-294

• Measurements ppg 294-299

• Electricity ppg 299-303

Health:

• Summer Safety Safari

• Food Pyramid & Basic Food Groups

• Dental & Body Hygiene

• Communicable Diseases

• Neighborhood Safety {Run, Yell, Tell by Diana Jones }

• Preventative Measures against disease ppg 290

• Basic First Aid

• The Human Body ppg 295-290

Religion:

• Celtic Pagan & The Triple Goddess

• Judaism ppg 127-139

• Christianity ppg 129-132

• Islam ppg 132-134

• Native American Religions 

Xander (4 y/o)

Learning To Read/ Phonics:

• Initial, Final Sounds

• Vowel Sounds

• Constant Sounds

• Rhyming Words pg 20-36

• Sequencing (Beginning, Middle & End)

• Setting

• Emotion

• “Good Night Moon”

  • Word Identifiers

  • Sequencing

• Choral Reading pg 41-108

• Fairy Tales / Fables pg 37-41

• Summarizing

• The Author, The Illustrator pg 49, 91

• Sayings pg 109-112

Site Words:

• www.aaaspell.com kindergarten lists

Writing:

• Letters

• Numbers

• Site Words

• Writing Journal

Math:

• Counting (to 100)

• Creating Patterns

• Extending patterns

• Adding

• Numbers Match

• < > =

• The Greedy Triangle – Geometric Shapes

• Ordinal - Cardinal

• Sets

• Number Line

• Problem Solving Strategies

• Basic Chart & Graphs pg 219

• Sorting pg 196-198

• 1 more or less pg 213

• comparisons pg 214, 232-233

• ½ and ½ pg 218

• measurements pg 228-232

Science:

• Rocks

• Rainbows: History & Colors

• Observation of everyday things:

  • pets – habits, food, etc

  • weather – seasons, temp, etc pg 256-262

• Common animals & plants

• Classifications of living things

• Farm Animals {Serious Farm by Time Egan }

• Like & Unlike plants

• The Sun & Solar System

• Light

• Colors

• Senses pg 266

• Continents pg 111-132

• Habitats

• Animal Needs pg 263-265

Health:

• Personal Hygiene pg 267

• Good Eating Habits

• Body parts

• Street Safety

• Cleanliness

Shared Lessons

Social Studies:

• Places in my community and their purpose

• Transportation in the community

• Suburban, rural & urban communities

• Who Does What in the community

• “We're Just Like Crayons” by Stephen Fite

• How do businesses work?

• “Carpenter, Carpenter, What Do You See?”

• Sheep Shearing to sweaters

• Families

• Family Tree

• “My Family is Forever”

• Work & Jobs

• Self-Respect & Awareness

Holidays around the world:

• Mardis Gras {http://teacherlink.ed.usu.edu/tlresources/units/Byrnes-celebrations/mardigra.html }

• Chinese New Year {Happy New Year Julie by Megan McDonald, Chinese New Year Dragon by Rachel Sing, My First Chinese New Year by Karen Katz}

• US National Holidays (www.enchantedlearning.com/)

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  • Earth Day

  • Flag Day

  • Veterans Day

  • Arbor Day

  • Memorial Day

  • Independence Day

  • Thanksgiving

  • Presidents Day

  • Martin Luther King, JR Day

  • Columbus Day

  • Patriot Day (Sept 11)

• National Days Around the World http://www.africa.upenn.edu/Country_Specific/Holidays.html

• Pagan Holidays – The Wheel of the Year

• Christmas, Yule, Kwanzaa, Hanukkah

Geography: http://www.historyforkids.org/

• Country a Month

  • Egypt (see History)

  • Mexico ppg 148

  • England, Ireland, Scotland & Wales **2 months

  • Canada

  • Europe {France, Italy, Germany, Amsterdam, etc) **2 months

  • China

  • Russia

  • Argentina

  • Australia

  • Brazil

• Graham Cracker Continents

  • Continents ppg 117 - 118

• How People Travel

• Islands, Peninsula's {“Where the Wild Things Are”, Abel's Island by William Steig}

• US Geography {The Question and Answer Encyclopedia: The USA by Nicola Barber, Facts about the 50 States by Sue Brandt}

  • What animals are there

  • Trade?

  • Foods

  • Famous People

  • Cookie for Each State (lpp)

Manipulative's (Clocks, Maps, etc)

• Map legends ppg 119-120

• Bird Eye view of Mapping {Maps & Mapping by Deborah Chancellor}

• “Mapping Penny's World” mapping their rooms

• “911”

• Fire Safety – Stop, Drop & Roll {Stop, Drop & Roll by Margery Cuyler}

• Setting up an Emergency Plan {Emergency! By Gail Evens}

• Calender Counting ppg261-262

• “Clocks and More” 5 minute interval time lesson ppg 262-265

• Values of Nickels and Pennies ppg 258

• Song for coin value pg 221-293

Government:

• “The True Story of the 3 Little Pigs” and the importance of voting

• History of voting rights {How the President is elected by Heather Lehr Wagner}

• Election Lesson {Vote! By Eileen Christelow, Voting & Elections by Dennis Fraden}

• National Symbols {Our National Symbols by Linda Carlson Johnson}

• Judicial Voting Lesson

• 3 Parts of National Government Lesson

• Democracy pg 145-146

• Presidents pg 147-152

• Civil Rights {If You Lived in the Time of Martin Luther King by Ellen Levine}

History:

• Compare the cultures of the Native Americans to the Pilgrims*

• The hardships of being a Pilgrim*

  • The Jamestown Colony ppg 152-154

  • The Puritans ppg 156-157

• Native American Rock Art {Native American Rock Art by Yvette La Pierre}

• Cave Paintings & Cavemen

• The Ice Age ppg 111-113

• Egypt ppg 113-125

• The Land Bridge ppg 135-137

• They Maya ppg 137-138

• The Aztecs ppg 139-143

• The Incan's ppg 142-143

• Discovering America {Spanish conquerors ppg 146-148, The English ppg 150-151}

• The 13 Colonies ppg 158-175

   

Biography:

• Abraham Lincoln

• George Washington

• Martin Luther King, Jr

• Christopher Columbus – Discovering America ppg 143-145, pg 138-141

• Edward Jenner ppg 314-316

• Louis Pasteur ppg 316

• Thomas Edison ppg 317

• Rachel Carson ppg 319

• George Washington pg 274

• Jane Goodall pg 275

• Wilbur & Orville Wright pg 277

Visual Art:

**Any History, Geography or Science lesson can have a craft!

• Monet by watercolors paintings

• Van Gogh

• Jackson Pollock

• Color and Paint pallets

• Art Elements in Western Theme Designs focusing on Variety

• Textured Rubbing's ppg 189-190

• Draw what you hear

• Color Blends ppg 182

• Get in Line ppg 184

• Shapes ppg 186

• Portraits ppg 191-195

• Murals ppg 197-198

Music:

• Instrument Families

• Orchestra ppg 205

• Mozart ppg 207

• Telling a story with music ppg 210-211

• Drama with music: Opera ppg 212

• Jazz ppg 215

• Rhythm, Harmony & Melody ppg 217

I've found that starting the 'School Day" with a question, helps to put both the boys and I in the right mindset....it can be hard to turn off the t.v., or put away the computer. See, PS's have bells and home-room, etc. We don't so I came up with my questions of the day, generally something they need to have in mind throughout the day. So, sometime's I'll tie the question in with out other topics of the day, but not always. For most of these, it's like a survey; sometimes it's what we saw most that day, sometimes they need to ask everyone they see. I put the ?? after those questions that are surveys to other people.

Here's a sampling of our questions of the Day:

1. Everyone's Favorite Holiday?? (Bar Graph. Choices: Yule/Alban Arthan/Christmas/Hannakkah , Brighid's Day/Imblog/Valentine's Day , Alban Eilir/Ostara/Easter , Beltaine , Alban Hefin/Litha , Lughnasadh/Lammas , Autumnal Equinox/Mabon/Foghar/Alban Elfed , Thanksgiving , Samhain/Hallowe'en , New Years)
2. Write a number less than 67
3. Write a number greater than 49
4. Write a number between 24 and 79
5. Do you see more Red or Green? (keeping a bar graph in their travel bags, they mark when the see a color)
6. Do you see more blue or yellow?
7. Which is not a Liquid? (milk, ice, soda, water) using a tally chart
8. Which is not a Liquid? (ocean, water, popsicle) using a tally chart
9. Favorite Fruits?? (Bar graph. Choices: orange, grapes, apple, banana)
10. Favorite Veggies?? (Bar Graph. Choices: cucumber, carrots, broccoli, squash)
11. Which Do you like: Reading or Math? (use a Venn Diagram to write their reasons why)
12. 51, 91, 61, Which of the following goes with this series? 7, 81 or 100
13. Estimate the number of people that could safetly fit in your car? (4, 6, 10, 25)
14. Write an estimation of how many hands wide our doorway is.
15. (give kids each 3 lengths of yarn) Draw a line equal to the longest length of yarn
16.  My Favorite Activity?? (Bar Graph. Choices: football, soccer, swimming, reading, art)
17. Does Gas Have Weight?
18. Will The Groundhog See it's Shadow?
19. What Coins Equal 10 Cents?
20. Draw A Heart About This Size. (estimation)
21. When Should You Brush Your Teeth? (venn diagram)
22. Which Coin Has a picture of Abe Lincoln on it?
23. Which coin has a picture of George Washington on it?
24. Which number combinations are equal to 8? (7+2, 6+2, 9+1)
25. Which column equals six (I put smily faces in columns of 1, 3, 6, 9)
26. Which Book would you like to use to decorate our Bulletin for the week? (offer 3 books, then ask every on in the family for a Bar Graph)
27. Which expression is equal to 5+4? 3+7, 2+8, 6+3?
28. What color shirts do you see more of? (bar graph. Coices: Red, yellow, blue, green, black, striped, design)
29. What state are we going to learn about today? (they put a sticker on our US Map)
30. Write your favorite number. What are the ones, tens, hundreds, etc.
31. What color leaves do you see out the window?
32. Daddy made a bridge connecting 2blocks to 3 blocks...which model shows his bridge?
33. Two bugs sat on a leaf, another bug sat on the leaf next door, which model shows this example?
34. Write the equation to show this sentence: One Tens plus Eight ones. (show both the number representation and a pictoral)