Subjects 2014-2015

A look at last year:

Here's a link to last year's subjects.

Overall, I was very happy with all the subjects and the publishers I used last year. I sure did miss going to the national homeschooling conference and getting them almost all there for last year! It took me forever to price and order them all separately from curriculum book warehouses or directly from the publishers, if they didn't sell elsewhere, for this upcoming school year! 

A look at the changes for this year:

• Cian and Grace did great doing the same History last year and Cian kept up fine. We are doing that again and switching to a Catholic publisher: Catholic Heritage Curriculum for History.
• I am switching their Religion AGAIN! I liked the Image of God series, but want something more in depth for Grace and something less parent-led for Cian. I am keeping Image of God for Zoe and Ellie.
• We will be adding a Bible course in addition to Religion.
• We switched to real piano and voice lessons last year instead of the Piano Is Easy series.
• I WON Supercharged Science and am excited to try it this upcoming school year!
• I'm adding a Health Curriculum.
• Book reports didn't happen last year. We do better with a set curriculum so we are adding Into The Heart of Reading by Heart of Dakota. I also love that it will have the kids venture into all types of books. I'm most excited about adding this!
• I'm switching Grace to Teaching Textbooks for Math. We liked the Math Mammoth, but I think Grace will enjoy the computer teaching her math instead of her mom. She tested into 6th grade math.

Here are their subjects for 2014-2015:

Grace - 5th grade:

Religion - Catholic Connections & Student Workbook by St. Mary's Press

Bible- The Catholic Children's Bible & Workbook by St. Mary's Press
Math-  Teaching Textbooks 6
Grammar- Daily Grams 5
Grammar- Editor In Chief A1

Spelling - Building Spelling Skills 5
Reading- Drawn Into the Heart of Reading Level 4/5
Reading Comprehension- Reading Detective A1 
Reading Comprehension- Stories of Saints 1 (CHC)

Writing- The Creative Writer
Writing- 1001 Writing Projects for Students

Science- Supercharged Science: Forces and Motion 1
Science- Science Detective A1
History- Our United States of America: Catholic Social Studies

Geography- Map Skills D (CHC's that accompanies the above social studies text)
Geography- Cantering the Country

Health- Developing Good Health (abeka) 
Health- Health 5 for Young Catholics (Seton)
Spanish- La Clase Divertida 2
Critical Thinking- Building Thinking Skills CD
Critical Thinking- Red Herring Mysteries
Art- local art class
PE- Tumbling & various dance classes
Music- Voice lessons

Cian - 3rd grade:

Religion- Faith in Life Grade 3: Our Life with Jesus
Religion- Gospel Trekkers book series

Bible- The Catholic Children's Bible & Workbook by St. Mary's Press
Math- Singapore Primary Math 3A & 3B

Grammar- Easy Grammar 3
Reading- Drawn Into the Heart of Reading Level 2/3
Reading Comprehension- Reading Detective CD Grades 3-4 

Reading Comprehension- Reading 3 for Young Catholics (Comprehension) 

Spelling- Building Spelling Skills 3

Writing- Complete Writing Lessons for Primary Grades

Journaling/Writing- Daily Writing Prompts
Handwriting- D'Nealian Handwriting Cursive ABC Book (Grades 2-4)

Science- Supercharged Science: Forces and Motion 1
Science- Science Detective (Grades 3-4)

History- Our United States of America: Catholic Social Studies

Geography- Map Skills D (CHC's that accompanies the above social studies text)
Geography- Cantering the Country

Health- Health, Safety & Manners 3 (abeka)
Health- Health 3 for Young Catholics
Spanish- La Clase Divertida 2

Critical Thinking- Building Thinking Skills CD

Critical Thinking- Red Herring Mysteries

Art- local art class

PE- Tumbling class, Tap dance class, soccer
Music- piano lessons

Zoe - Kindergarten:

Religion- Image of God- Grade K

Bible- The Catholic Children's Bible 

Math- Horizons Math K

Phonics & Reading- McRuffy Kindergarten

Handwriting- McRuffy Kindergarten

Journaling- Daily Writing Prompts TBD

History- Our United States of America: Catholic Social Studies (listening only, no workbook)

Geography- United States of America Sticker book during Cantering the Country

Spanish- La Clase Divertida 2
Art- Seasonal Art Projects

PE- Tumbling, various dance classes
Music- piano lessons

Ellison - 3-year-old Preschool

Religion- Image of God - Preschool A
Bible- The Catholic Children's Bible
Geography- United States of America Sticker book during Cantering the Country
Letter of the Week Preschool Curriculum from confessionsofahomeschooler.com
Art- seasonal art projects
PE- (hopefully) tumbling, dance class
Music- Boomwhackers
also:
Kumon Let's Sticker and Paste
Kumon Let's Cut Paper