Ch-ch-changes for 1st Grade

We are making some changes in our homeschool for Samuel’s first grade year.  He has been begging to study more about world cultures.  He is fascinated with all things Egyptian, Greek, Roman, Japanese, Chinese, etc. anything that is different culturally than us.  Since part of the reason we homeschool is to individualize his education, we are taking a year off from Heart of Dakota and are going to be doing Sonlight’s Core A – Intro to World Cultures instead.  We had our box day a couple days ago and Samuel was so excited to see all the books he would be using.  We haven’t been able to keep him out of them! 

Here are a few pics from our Box Day:

To sum it up, here’s all the curriculum we’ll be using for 1st Grade:

Sonlight Core A – Intro to World Cultures

Sonlight LA & Readers 2 – Included in this we will be continuing with Explode the Code and A Reason for Handwriting

Sonlight Science A - Samuel is asking for more experiments, and Adam wants him to have more science than what he was getting in HOD.  Adam looked at the samples, and at the guide and books now that we have them and wants us to stick with this.  Since he’s the resident scientist, I trust his judgment.

Saxon Math 1 – Samuel was having a hard time with Singapore Math because there wasn’t enough practice on a concept and he wasn’t able to fully grasp it before moving on to something else.  I think this will work better for him.

La Clase Divertida 1 – I meant to get started with this last year, but we never were able to fit it in.  Hopefully we will fit it in this year.

Samuel will also be taking 3 classes at our co-op – Health, Music & Movement, and a science class covering Insects & Light (1 each semester)

So, we are looking forward to an exciting year.  Depending on how this year goes, we will either go back to HOD next year and pick up with Beyond Little Hearts for His Glory (Samuel is on the younger side of the guides so he will still fit in) or we will continue with Sonlight.