I am finally back on the blog! I have been so busy the past two years working hard to build content over at Catholic Sistas's Homeschooling Series that I had abandoned this blog. Sorry about that. I did try to keep in touch through the Facebook page and Pinterest pins but I know it is not the same. After much thought, I have decided to continue blogging about our new found love for Catholic Schoolhouse, a Catholic Classical approach to education. It is lovely, think of the one room school house but in your home and Catholic!
I blogged about our decision to use Catholic Schoolhouse at Home last month over at Catholic Sistas under Raising Saints.
This year we will be using Year 2 which involves Creation until the 1500's. I am very excited to share my book selection for this year to come.
This is the Year 2: Creation to 1500s Tour Guide. This guide is a 24 week detailed guide to teaching History, Geography, Religion, Latin, Math, Language Arts, Fine Arts, The Orchestra and Art.
Here are the additional materials I am using to help me teach all four children
ages 5, 7, 9, and 10 together.:
The CSH History Cards are fantastic. On one side there is a picture of a historical event, on the back is the title and a gist of the event. While you can just teach from this I like to add activities and resource books for further investigation.
My textbook spine for History this year will be
Founders of Freedom from the Land of Our Lady series. I am using Kolbe Academy's Answer key as well.
I use the History Pockets on our notebooking composition books. :) There is clearly much more in these books than what we will actually use.
This book has activities for the children to make and do. I am using
Classical Kids as a resource for lesson planning.
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Ancient Egyptians and their Neighbors: An Activity Guide
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Additional Resources:
This is the Science (HANDS ON) Guide for year 2. I love this guide because I do not really love Science BUT my children do and it helps me pretend like I do - hahaha! Well I should say I do like to read about Science (as a Reading Specialist I better like that huh?) but the hands on part I am normally horrible on. Since we started using CSH, we do hands on science! YAY!
Here are some of the resources I will be using for this coming year:
Another amazing product by CSH, Their Art Guide for Year 2, which follows what we will be learning in History! Perfection!
Here are some additional resources for Art:
In addition to the individual Religion lessons, we will be using these books to compliment the Memory Verses/Songs that go with the CSH program:
Aside from using Catholic Schoolhouse at home, we are adding a Math, Writing, Reading, Religion, Grammar, and Spanish text to our schooling. I will present them to you one by one by grade:
My fifth grader will be working closely with my fourth grader with some exceptions. He is using Living through God's Gifts for religion, American Cardinal Reader Book Five for Reading, all the other books are the same as his sister, except that in Math he will be further ahead than her in this book....as well as the Intermediate Language lessons because he stated these last year. They do share books so they have to coordinate using them at different times of the school day.
My fourth grader's books, she is using Intermediate Language Lessons for Grammar, Ray's New Intellectual Arithmetic for Math, American Cardinal Reader Book Four for reading, Living for God for a religion and Learn Spanish with Grace for Spanish. She also uses All about Spelling (not pictured)
This is the set my second grader is using. For Grammar he is doing Primary Language lessons, for reading he is using American Cardinal Readers Book Two, for Math he is using Ray's New Primary Arithmetic with the Classical Curriculum workbooks which there are four but I bought only the first two and come mid year I will buy the next two. For Spanish he and my first grader are using the Coquito Classico books found on Amazon. For religion he uses Living by God's Law in preparation for FHC.
Ok this is my first grader's books. For Spanish he will work with my second grader using the Coquito book, for Math he too is using Ray's primary Arithmetic but using the Series One work books. For Grammar he is using Voyages in English 1 and 2, for Reading I use American Cardinal Readers Book One to read to him, and for Phonics he is using Little Angel Readers A-D, for a Religion he is using Living in God's Love. He is using All About Spelling 1 for spelling.
Using Catechism in Rhyme, I have written a 100 page handwriting, copy work, and dictation book for my children to use. I also have it available for sale, if you are interested,
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