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  1. We did Sonlight's kindergarten science last year, uses mostly Usborne books. I bought a core, but you can purchase science separately from Sonlight or Bookshark. Science was probably the most favorite thing we did during Kindergarten, and the kit of supplies makes it fairly easy to do an experiment each week. If I had to pull all the strange materials together, we'd never do a science demo.
  2. We did level 1 in Kindergarten in about 6 months. Towards the end I added more reading practice with ALS books, which we continued in level 2. We take more than a day to do every lesson except for the ones where they read a story. Fluency sheets I split into 2 or 3 days, plus however long it took to do the lesson preceding it. At the end of K, we are halfway through level 2. It will probably slow down a little since my plan for 1st is to alternate it with AAS1.
  3. Sounding them out is normal. We do 3 days for fluency sheets, will finish AAR1 this week (to get an idea of how far we are in it). Don't skip them. At the end of level 1, some of the lessons involve reading 2 stories in the readers, which I break up into 2 days. I felt like we needed a little extra reading practice, so I bought an American Language Series reader and she reads a couple pages out of it a day. I have her read aloud to me before I do read alouds for her.
  4. Sonlight core A - history, read alouds, and science - not their LA and I don't like Core A's Bible AAR 1 (need to buy AAR 2 before Christmas) MUS primer (it is also almost finished, and I'm debating switching math) Zaner Bloser Handwriting K/1st, alternating with Lakeshore Learning's My First Writing Prompts Journal CC Reading Eggs/ Math Seeds for fun Dance and swimming lessons I have Bede's story of me we'll start in January.
  5. LOVE All about reading. I got the deluxe kit (came with a bag and card box?) from rainbow resource. Do the fluency sheets if you get it. They are a bear, and take forever. I break it up into multiple days work and use rewards to get through, but it helps so much. I am buying extra low level readers though. We also do readingeggs.com. I want to say I did a 30 day trial of it before I bought it. I use it as backup, when I'm having a crazy day with the littles, she can self direct with reading eggs as opposed to AAR that is instructor heavy.
  6. We did K-4 last year. I had done a year of Letter of the week from confessions of a homeschooler, so she knew letters and sounds going into K4. For K-4, we did (very loose schedule) All About Reading 1 and Readingeggs.com Math U See Primer, Singapore Earlybirds A (I didn't like earlybirds, DD loved it) Classical Conversations We still have some work to do in AAR and MUS. We'll pick back up with them in the fall.
  7. We did CC last year and will do it again this year. My daughter was 4 1/2 last year in August, knew her letters. CC was great for the sense of community, but I don't think she got much out of the actual memory work (I'm holding my breath to be proved wrong). You've visited right? So you see the board where they have all the week's memory work written out and the kids say it/ repeat it / sing it / whatever a bunch of times. That isn't really easy for a non-reader. If they don't hear the teacher speak clearly, or aren't fully paying attention (because that never happens right?) they can't look at the board for a visual clue on what to say b/c they can't read the board. I have read in multiple places though, and this is what we tried to do, to let the first year of CC just kind of wash over you, don't try too much extra at home at first and progress with it as you feel you want to. I don't plan on doing much this year except I got the timeline cards to play with. Until they can read, focus on reading and math. I'm doing a mountain of stuff for kindergarten, probably too much. We are 3/4 of the way through All about Reading 1, so I'll finish that and do 2. I just bought Sonlight Core A b/c we read a LOT. We are halfway through Math U See Primer, but she's not in love, so I bought horizons K to see if that will go over better (the girl loves a full color worksheet for some reason). We are doing science for fun, and I bought Bede's Story of Me because it looked fun.
  8. I found some suggestions in another thread. Of the ones they listed, the leading contenders for us I think are either Horizons or Right Start.
  9. We are working on the Math U See primer. I like it, and I want to teach math this way, but I'm looking for something else to go with it. We used Singapore's Earlybirds A, but I didn't love it. It had entire sections on weight and capacity that we mostly just skipped. My daughter liked the brightly colored worksheets. She enjoys worksheets a lot. I really like self contained stuff, where I don't have to pull together a lot of materials to do a demonstration, which is what the weight/capacity stuff in Earlybirds ended up being. Any suggestions?
  10. This was a cute book. http://www.amazon.com/Me-Too-Preschool-CJ-Heck/dp/0983932034
  11. We use Zaner Bloser's handwriting book. She just started it, so I'm not sure how great it will go. So far, she's enjoying it. We are doing manuscript right now. I know a lot of people start with cursive, and I didn't. Now she's asking to write "fancy" so I'm debating trying both. You can make your own sheets on ZB's website for free. http://www.zaner-bloser.com/media/zb/zaner-bloser/FontsOnline_Sampler/FontsOnline_Sampler/index.html
  12. We've enjoyed Math U See Primer, All About Reading level 1, and reading eggs. We are about halfway through the first two. The AAR fluency sheets are getting tedious.
  13. I don't think the BFIAR manual is necessary. Get on pintrest and search the book title and you'll find activities for those books. I only like about 30% of the BFIAR book list, and we are a very book heavy house. I never really considered doing a full boxed curriculum. All we are really concerned about right now is phonics and some early math. I do a lot of read alouds, but I don't really consider that as "school", more of just our family culture that everyone reads.
  14. I've bought a bunch of board games and puzzles at consignment sales. The only thing I've bought new as far as games go were card games, Old Maid and Go Fish. Our public library has a rather poor collection. I don't have as great of luck with books at consignment sales, but I look. People keep the good ones and sell the others. My kids have an amazon list for books that is longer than their personal wishlists for toys and other items. I spend a lot on books. I'll buy used hardback books on amazon before I buy the new paperback, since my littles are really tough on books.
  15. We just started AAR, but it seems pretty complete. I think I'm going to do a few pintrest activities for sight words, just for fun. I've got the first set of BOB readers, a set of Abeka readers, and some other random first readers to try.
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