Curriculum For homeschooler is important aspect of teaching at home. It does not have to be expensive and yet teach your child all essential that she would learn otherwise at fine teaching institute in ideal world. Here are a few curriculum kits that I like, by asking homeschooling parents around.
The reason I like kit for curriculum is in one shot you get every subject that child is supposed to learn during that year and I do not have to go and buy other separate homeschooling materials. I may buy separate if that is something my child is interested and focus on learning about it. These curriculum choices for prefect for early education at home or supplementing with public school system, from preschool, kindergarten, 1st grade and 2nd grade.
Here are a few best selling curriculum sets.
Your Baby can Read: Early Development
This is one of the bestselling programs for young kids before age of 1. It comes with 5 DVDs. Long-term research shows that children who are taught to read by age four, read better than same-IQ, same-socioeconomic status children who are taught at ages 5 or 6. It shows and teaches babies, toddlers, and preschoolers written language during the window of opportunity for learning language. Promotes the learning of “natural phonics”! Includes remarkable footage of babies reading.
The program is good and shot naturally. What I like is that many things are repeated for reinforcing learning for little ones. It is mostly for child under 3 years or preschool ages.
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Early Education Curriculum: A Child’s Connection to the World
Early Education Curriculum: A Child’s Connection to the World, 4th edition, focuses on the process of planning and implementing curriculum across all content areas, for children from infancy to age 8. New research, perspectives in the field, and issues of new mandated standards are covered. This edition introduces a bind- in- book CD- Rom that contains new activity plans, lesson plans, assessment forms, curriculum webs, room arrangements, and puppet patterns, as well as a four- color insert on outdoor play.
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2010 HORIZONS AOP (Alpha Omega), PRESCHOOL, PRE K KINDERGARTEN HOMESCHOOLING CURRICULUM SET
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Great Source Every Day Counts: Teacher’s Guide Grade 1
I would recommend Everyday Counts to anyone who wants to teach a lot of math in a little time each day. I used the third grade edition when teaching in the school system and saw my students’ math scores soar. Now that I am homeschooling my Kindergarten son, I am very happy to have the option of offering this experience to him, too. I only bought the Teacher Edition, so I need to create some of the items from the kit, but no big deal. Also, some of the activities need to be modified a bit for use at home instead of in a class situation with 25 contributing students. For instance, instead of a class birthday graph, we’re graphing the birthdays of our family and friends. Same result.
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Sing, Spell, Read and Write : Kindergarten Level 1 Combo Kit
The Combo Kit is packed with enough language arts instructional material for two full years. Featuring age-appropriate lessons for the younger child, the kindergarten portion of this kit covers the first 15 steps of the 36-step Level 1 program. Two kindergarten student workbooks are included featuring larger print and fewer words per page. Topics covered include letter recognition, letter sounds, manuscript writing, and beginning reading. Boxed: 18″ x 12″ x 6″.
Sing, Spell, Read & Write is a learning-to-read curriculum that uses a 36-step program of carefully sequenced systematic, explicit phonics instruction to build fluent independent readers. The program has a proven, nationwide track record and the soundness of such an approach is strongly supported by current research on brain function, language acquisition, and reading.
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Math 1: Homeschool Kit (Homeschool Math Grade 1)
This math program provides a solid, basic foundation in math. I like the way that it integrates all different math skills throughout the year instead of isolating geometry, addition, subtraction, measurement, etc. by chapter. We have skipped lessons because they are too elementary for my seven year old.
The meeting book is nice to have for keeping up with calendar, weather, and number lines. The series provides review constantly so the child is expected to remember skills learned previously. We will continue to use Saxon Math next year. The concepts are presented in the most simplistic format, one small piece at a time. They are able to achieve mastery with one task before they move on to the next new concept. This does so much for their self-esteem and, I believe, builds in children a confidence in their math abilities that can last a lifetime.
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Manipulative Kit for Saxon Math K-3
We’ve enjoyed using the manipulatives set. My younger children love to sort the teddy bear counters and play with the pattern blocks. My issue is with the linking cubes as stated in the other reviews. We are currently using Saxon 1 and the manipulative we use the most are the linking cubes. My son and I have a very hard time putting them together. I stopped using them because they are so frustrating and make a lesson take forever with unsnapping and snapping the cubes. I’ve resorted to using the single cube blocks in my children’s Fisher-Price Trio Blocks set. If you have the trio blocks they are a great substitute for the difficult linking cubes.
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Hooked on Phonics: Learn to Read Kindergarten System
Hooked on Phonics Learn to Read-Kindergarten teaches kids ages 4 to 6 the basic skills needed to become confident readers now and in the future. Along with musical audio CDs and workbooks filled with activities and stories, the program includes a library of original books, flash cards, and reward stickers kids love. PLUS, there is an interactive CD-ROM filled with activities and games designed to make learning fun.
Hooked on Phonics Learn to Read-Kindergarten introduces:
* Letter sounds & short vowels
Contents include:
* 1 interactive CD-ROM with 28 fun learning games (PC and MAC compatible)
* 3 audio CDs to guide your child through the program
* 5 sets of flash cards to teach letter names, letter sounds, and sight words, and for Word Play games
* 1 workbook that includes fun activities and 17 great stories
* 24 original books to get your child reading
* 2 colorful progress posters with reward stickers
* Parent’s guide that’s easy to use
With Hooked on Phonics, you do not need to be an expert on Phonics because they teach you every step of the way ! and when i say they teach you every step of the way, i really meant every step of the way! Baby steps literally ! how to correctly pronounce the sounds and decode the words!
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