Zachary's Curriculum

I have a few minutes before we leave to try out the van and since the kids are all sitting down and watching Passe-Partout, I am using the opportunity to share Zachary's curriculum. It ia just about all the same books I already used with Catherine and William. I did add a few things here and there.

In English, we use Sonlight's Core K.



I love that program and really enjoy being able to use it a third time with my third child. The books are just as fun to read the third time than the first. Although some have been read much more than three times.

For writing, Zachary will use this program:



The kids love writing letters with those big wood blocks. And the slate is used every single day, for simply writing down how many pages are left to do to writing sweet little messages to each other.

For math, he will go on with Sinpgapore Math. That program is amazing. I have added manipulatives with just about every page of the books and the kids enjoy learning with those. One day, I will share my list of each book here.



For French, Zachary will use the same program his older siblings used and loved:



This is not simply a program with activity books. No, each level has an activity book that comes with 10-20 games that goes with it. So, the child can *play* 30 minutes, have fun and learn before doing 5-6 pages. That program helped Catherine want to learn to read. Before that, she simply refused to.

And once we are done with Sonlight (it does not take a year to do the K program), Zachary will get to do Five in a Row 1:



I know it sounds like so much but it really is not. Zachary gets up before all the other kids to make sure he homeschool first. Yeah, that means that sometimes, I have to send him back to bed at 3am! lol

Oh, I forgot about all the computer programs we have, the games and other books. I guess I will try and post a week by week of the kids' learning starting next September. It will help me keep the portfolios up to date for the school.