Question about designing homeschool curriculum for K
Posted: Sat Oct 22, 2011 5:13 pm
Hello, This is my first post, and I have a huge question! I hope to learn alot from this website since I don't have any experience:) First a little background, then my question. This is our first year homeschooling our eldest who is 5. We have not done any formal schooling and he has not been in any day care, preschool or Kindergarten. We have decided to make our own curriculum instead of buying prepackaged curriculum as we really like the freedom that approach offers. I have no experience teaching and my husband and I have researched many recommended choices for curriculum used for Kindergarten. We also have the book Home Learning year by year. Our plan is to start with a reading program that is very flexible, then after 6 months or so, add in other subjects.
My question is this- how many resources do you use with each subject?
The book Home Learning has so many suggestions that I don't know which ones to use or how many to use.
We are planning on using the distar based approach to reading with Teach your child to learn in 100 easy lessons; but other than that what should we use? We want a very well rounded curriculum, so we need help with finding resources that work well with this text as well as using different approaches to apply the same concept. I hope that makes sense:)
So for example, we will use the book, then we would like to have some ideas for crafts or activities that are hands-on, then also some worksheets, or even some other text that uses multi sensory methods. Any suggestions would be helpful. We want to get enough pulled together so that it is not boring, but we don't want to use too much either. Thanks for any input!!
My question is this- how many resources do you use with each subject?
The book Home Learning has so many suggestions that I don't know which ones to use or how many to use.
We are planning on using the distar based approach to reading with Teach your child to learn in 100 easy lessons; but other than that what should we use? We want a very well rounded curriculum, so we need help with finding resources that work well with this text as well as using different approaches to apply the same concept. I hope that makes sense:)
So for example, we will use the book, then we would like to have some ideas for crafts or activities that are hands-on, then also some worksheets, or even some other text that uses multi sensory methods. Any suggestions would be helpful. We want to get enough pulled together so that it is not boring, but we don't want to use too much either. Thanks for any input!!