Thinking about our School Year

Last week when we went shopping the library was having their annual book sale, it’s by donation. I stopped to look and picked out a nice box of children’s books!

Some of them are for the Before Five in A Row and Five In A Row program we use. I was so excited about that! I also found some nice history storybooks.

We happened to be back in town a few days later and they were still having the sale. So I just had to peek again. I found another book to go with the B4FIAR and some nice children’s farming books! I’m planning to do a farming unit this fall with the kids.

The International Plowing Match will be in our area and we are planning an all-day field trip there.

Dh is really looking forward to that too. I also picked up some wonderful animal videos for the kids and some documentaries for us. Dh also picked out an encyclopedia set on natural history.

I’m hoping to get to a homeschool bookstore this weekend. My shopping list has been gone over and over. I’m still tweaking it. So far I’m thinking of getting this:

• Christian Liberty Nature Readers 1 & 2

• Bob Books #1

• Leading Little ones to God

• Canadian Colouring book

• FIAR Christian supplement

• Before FIAR

• Canada My Country

• Ecoutez! Parlez! (beginner French)

Our plans this year are:

2-year-old.

I’m going to use B4FIAR with her at a slow pace.  Should be fun!

4-year-old PreK

• Teach Your Child to Read 100 Easy Lessons

• Bob Books

• B4FIAR

• FIAR

• Leading Little Ones To God

6-year-old, grade 1

• FIAR

• Math U See Beta

• SOTW 1 (we started this last year and put it on hold for a bit)

• God’s Design for Science, The plant kingdom and the human body

• Leading Little Ones To God

• Canada My Country

• Nature Study

• Copy Work

• CL Nature Readers

DD6 and 4 will also be starting on some handcrafts, keep working on crochet and maybe simple sewing.