12/10/2023 0 Comments Master books my story![]() While I’m excited to start learning about the human body in our science curriculum, I knew my little nature lover would want more. Exploring Nature With Children from Raising Little Shoots. I already have a few of my own activities to add (like My First Anatomy game, Human Heart Anatomy, and Skeleton Anatomy), and I look forward to gathering other resources to build on what we learn. During Squeaks’ first grade year, we’ll cover the human body section of the book once a week. We did the entire animal life section for Kindergarten and it was great! The lessons are short, Bible based, and super easy to expand on with related YouTube videos, fun library books, or crafts. While the scope and sequence of this book recommends doing it five days a week, I chose to only do one day a week last year and it worked out perfectly. Let’s move on to the first grade subjects we will rotate through once a week. I think Squeaks is really going to enjoy it. And just like all of Master Books curriculum, it’s taught from a Biblical world view, which I greatly appreciate. It looks like a few people have had issues since I purchased.Īnyhow, I’m excited to try My Story for first grade! It starts with family, then your community, and works all the way up to world geography and information on different cultures. I recommend reading the reviews on the book it you’re considering it. I had to do quite a bit of modification to some of the activities to make them work for Squeaks attention span. It was a very disjointed and ineffective curriculum. I attempted a beginner social studies/history curriculum last year with Bede’s History of Me, and it didn’t last long. My Story and the World Around Me is a lower elementary social studies course that introduces students to history, politics, sociology, economics, and geography, while providing an understanding of God’s world and the cultures of the countries. ![]() My Story and the World Around Me 1 from Master Books. Since I trust Master Books, I have high hopes and looking through the book so far, we won’t be disappointed. However, for first grade, I wanted something that would specifically add in spelling, grammar, and phonics skills. I would simply grab a few spelling words out of the selection from the weeks reading lesson and we would focus on practicing those along with the reading concepts. For Kindergarten I focused more on reading skills, so The Ordinary Parent’s Guide To Teaching Reading from A Well Trained Mind was perfect by itself. I purchased the bundle directly from Master Books so we would also have the suggested storybooks. This will be our first year using Master Books language arts curriculum. Get your EDITABLE Loop Schedule – Subject Format here! Language Lessons for a Living Education Level 1 from Master Books. Of course, if something really isn’t working, I’d most definitely switch, but after our experience so far it would take a lot to leave Master Books. Plus, a wise friend reminded me that switching curriculum too frequently can leave room for gaps in a child’s education. I’m so glad we stuck with it because Master Books is so gentle. However, as soon as we hit place value and telling time near the middle of the book, things got much more challenging for her. ![]() I’ll admit, near the beginning of the level 1 book I thought it might not be challenging enough for Squeaks (math obsessed!) and I considered switching to another curriculum for first grade. We loved Master Books math curriculum for Kindergarten (see all of our Kindergarten homeschool curriculum picks here). Math Lessons for a Living Education Level 2 from Master Books. We will be utilizing a loop schedule (just like we did for Kindergarten) so I’ll start with the core subjects that we will cover everyday. (Scroll to the bottom of this post to see a video flip-through of our first grade curriculum picks!) ![]() *mind blown* So without further ado, here are our first grade homeschool curriculum picks! So this post will focus just on our first grade homeschool picks for Squeaks. I have a few things in the works for him (that I will gladly share when finished) but it will be mostly learning through play and lots of reading. With Little Dude doing two years of preschool, not much will change for his routine. I cannot believe I’m writing about first grade homeschool curriculum right now! Squeaks’ Kindergarten year and Little Dude’s first year of preschool flew by! If you follow one of my links I earn a small commission at no extra cost to you. ![]()
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