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AngelaM
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Hi...I have a 3rd grade boy, 1st grade girl, K girl and 3 and 1 yr old....I need some advice to begin this new style of teaching. this is my 2nd full year of homeschooling and my first in living books...can someone guide me on how to start?
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Winterpromise and Sonlight are both good packaged curriculums that incorporate a good amount of living books.
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I have a 5 yo kindergarten boy, an almost 4 yo kindergarten boy and a 20 month old and we are going to be using the Serendipity curriculum this year. Here' my plan for next year. Good luck!
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Cindy,
I looked at your plan and it looks great! I also have a kindergarten/preschooler. I had never heard of Our 24 Family Ways. It works well for that age group? Anything non-Catholic that I need to be concerned about if I use it?
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Another great program for younger years is Five in a Row. You can read about it here:
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Everything I was going to suggest, has been. Five in a Row for the youngers, and Sonlight (or WP) for the older....
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The goal is to keep them together as much as possible. Easier on mom, happier kids because they are working together.
I would use either Serendipity or FIAR (Catholic Mosaic would be wonderful to go along with either). Both can accomodate your age spread and both are wonderful and relatively inexpensive as well. Sonight will require more than one level so I'd not recommend that at this point.
Make a general plan for what you want to cover over 4 days (don't try to school 5 days a week...unnecessary), and keep it simple. Less is more with kids your age. Plan to be done with everything by 11:30 am. Only exception is read alouds in the afternoon, if you'd like. Make a list of books you want to read aloud (for instance, I am taking the Serendipity alphabet path and then adding in the FIAR books that go along with each letter) and keep it somewhere close. Just work through them in whatever order you've determined. Don't stress over getting behind.
Best advice I learned last week from a certain board member (you know who you are  ), go with what inspires you personally. If it looks joyful and you can't wait to get started, then you've found something that fits. No matter how good people say something is, if it doesn't look *fun* to you, it won't be when you try to do it.
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Another excellent resource -- not to make things more confusing! -- is Mater Amabilis. It's not a curriculum with specific lesson plans, but is a Catholic Charlotte-Mason program/syllabus with levels beginning at "Prep Level" (preschool/K) and still being added at the high-school level. Their book lists are beyond excellent (and all living books), and there's a wealth of information there about implementing a Charlotte Mason education from a Catholic perspective. There's also a very useful Teacher Training Forum dedicated to implementing the MA program.
We use MA very loosely -- mostly as a syllabus and a governing principle, if that makes any sense! But many, many of our favorite books have come from those lists. If you'd like an idea of what we do -- I have, currently, a high-schooler, a 5th-grader, a kindergartener and a preschooler -- stop by my homeschooling blog, Saint Daniel the Stylite Academy. My ages don't quite correspond to yours, but I hope I'm communicating how our family, at least, incorporates living books into our learning life.
Have fun -- sometimes the array of curriculum out there can be downright daunting, but as Books says, go with what makes you joyful!
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Thank you so much everyone for all your encouragement and info....I pray that this year will be fruitful. I am so grateful I amm starting a new approach...This is exactly what I have been looking and praying for.
Angela
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