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2012-2013 Curriculum and Resources

Updated 8/5/12: The Not Back to School Blog Hop is going on over at iHomeschool Network. I’m joining in and linking this up. Check it out!

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I have curriculum swimming in my brain right now! I can’t get it all straight in my head until I get it all straight on paper… good ol’ paper and pen! I’ve spent the last few days nailing down the loose ends and making a plan.

We still have a few things from last year that we can keep using this year — Writing Strands 3 (though I’ll add an additional resource for Princess for more challenge,) Our Mother Tongue Grammar (this is a pretty deep resource,) and our You Can Paint Like the Masters book. Also, we’re continuing with the resources we already know and love – Apologia Science & Worldview, Mystery of History, Teaching Textbooks and Horizons Math.

We’re also going to be adding some more Notebooking in, using the Notebooking Publisher and Notebooking Pages. I’m excited to dig in and start using our new resource, the Young Readers curriculum from Heritage History, a good source of living books for both history and reading.

Last but not least I’ll be adding in a few freebies I’ve collected and some inexpensive Scholastic downloadables to flesh out some thin spots. All of the Scholastic workbooks below I downloaded for one dollar each during one of their mega sales! A friend gave me Grammar Town and Grammar Island. Global Mania, Progressive Phonics and the McGuffey Primer can all be found online for free.

Free and super cheap books I came home with from the homeschool book swap a couple of weeks ago.

I think it’s all coming together pretty well. =)

Group:

Who Am I? (And What Am I Doing Here?)~ Apologia
The Young Peacemaker
Zoology 3, Land Animals ~ Apologia
Mystery of History, Volume 2~ Bright Ideas Press (Because we ended up spending two years on volume 1), Heritage History (for supplemental literature) and books from our Mystery of History reading list
Global Mania, our Geography related books
Writing Strands Level 3 , Our Mother Tongue, Grammar Town/Island, Joe Bright and the Seven Genre Dudes
You Can Paint Like the Masters, Famous Artists Unit Study, World’s Greatest Composers Study, Shakespeare for the Ears

Princess (7th/8th)

Teaching Textbooks Pre-Algebra or Algebra (after a placement test)
Expository Writing, Figuratively Speaking, Vocabulary Packets: Prefixes & Suffixes
General Science ~ Apologia
Whatever Happened to Penny Candy?
50 Great States Read & Solve Crossword Puzzles

Drama Queen (4th-ish)

Horizons 4th or 5th Grade Math ~ Alpha Omega (We’ll see after placement tests.)
Funny Fairy Tale Grammar, Funny Fairy Tale Proofreading
Marvelous Map Activities

Little Prince (1st)

The Mom

Well Planned Day Lesson Planner
Educating the WholeHearted Child
The Ultimate Guide to Homeschooling Teens
Notebooking Success
Design Your Own Language Arts Curriculum

I still need to buy our Who Am I?, a junior journal and lab kit for the Zoology, our Mystery of History 2, math for all 3, the language arts workbooks for Princess, her General Science, Whatever Happened to Penny Candy — and books, books and more books from our various reading lists. I need to get busy, huh?

(P.S. Check out my used curriculum and other things for sale.)

What about you — how is your curriculum planning coming along? Do you know what you need, do you have it yet?

(Reminder: It’s okay to link up posts you’ve already written for your own blog or someone else’s back to school carnival as long as it’s on topic. Thanks!) All the linkies are open through the end of August. To find all the posts in this series, click here.

18 Responses to "2012-2013 Curriculum and Resources"

Our Homeschool Curriculum: Grade 9 says:

July 16, 2012 at 1:38 pm

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Our 2012-2013 Curriculum | Are We There Yet? says:

July 16, 2012 at 4:46 pm

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Amy @ Are We There Yet? says:

July 16, 2012 at 4:49 pm

We are using Notebooking Publisher too. I am excited about it, but a little nervous (which is silly, I know). Love your list!
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1. Amber says:
  
  July 20, 2012 at 4:52 pm
  
  I am both excited and nervous about using Notebooking Publisher, too. We’re in the same boat. =p
  
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Judy @ Contented at Home says:

July 17, 2012 at 8:27 pm

I love, love, LOVE homeschool planning! Most of our materials have already arrived–only a few things left to order.
I noticed that you used Mystery of History I last year. Do you also have a resource list for that book, like you do for book II?

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1. Amber says:
  
  July 20, 2012 at 4:51 pm
  
  I have a resource for the 2nd semester. I need to add the first semester to it because it gets searched quite frequently. =p
  
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  1. Judy @ Contented at Home says:
    
    July 20, 2012 at 8:57 pm
    
    Found it with your handy dandy search bar–thanks a bunch!
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School Books For the Grade 7 student | says:

July 19, 2012 at 5:01 pm

[...] What books are you using in your homeschool this year? This post is linked to Back to (Home)School at Classic Housewife [...]

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Victoria@Snailpacetransformations says:

July 19, 2012 at 5:02 pm

Thanks for providing this hop! I love looking at what books other families are using to educate children the same ages as my own.
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1. Amber says:
  
  July 20, 2012 at 4:48 pm
  
  Thanks, Victoria! I do, too. I’m pretty sure of what I want but now we’re entering junior high and soon high school so there’s always something to be learned from observing other homeschool moms, right? =)
  
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lisa says:

July 23, 2012 at 7:37 am

I see you have multi age children. This is my 3rd year homeschooling my 10 year old but 1st year with my 6 year old who is in 1st grade. I have all my curriculum, we use workboxes but I am nervous about sharing my time. Please share how do you do it? Thanks!

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1. Amber says:
  
  July 28, 2012 at 9:42 pm
  
  Sharing my time is the hardest! We converted our workboxes to workcharts a few years ago. We do several things together as a group (that helps with that time,) and after the group subjects I work on individual subjects with each child beginning with the youngest and moving up. The others are supposed to work independently until it’s their turn, they can skip things they need help with and work on other items on their chart for the day. The oldest one needs the least amount of help, and can get the most amount of work done while waiting for her turn. (They’re not supposed to interrupt either.) It works!
  Sometimes, like right now while we’re only doing math over the summer, I sit down between both girls and I give a lesson to one and then the other and then am available for help with both as they need it — but they’re still not allowed to interrupt! They have to skip a problem and move to the next one if they can. That part is important for staying sane. =p
  
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School Books For the 5th Grade Student | says:

July 27, 2012 at 5:32 am

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Sandra Modersohn says:

August 5, 2012 at 11:20 pm

thanks so much for sharing your curriculum choices! ANd for linking up to the Not Back To School Blog Hop That’s where I found you. I hopey ou get a chance to come see me at my place:
http://www.littlelearninglovies.com/wordpress/2012/08/05/not-back-to-school-blog-hopcurriculum-week/ See you there!
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Colleen Kessler says:

August 5, 2012 at 11:35 pm

Hi Amber,

I am SO glad I’m not the only one who uses curriculum for longer than it’s meant! We’re starting our second year with both Mystery of History 1 & Galloping the Globe. I joke that *maybe* this will be the year that we finally finish all of what we start out with.

Have a great year!
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Stef Layton - Educating Laytons says:

August 6, 2012 at 2:13 pm

I love you – just because you write “4th-ish”
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Christine says:

August 6, 2012 at 7:28 pm

I loved Whatever Happened to Penny Candy and we’re doing the follow up book this year, Whatever Happened to Justice. Looks like you’ve got your work cut out for you, but in a good way!
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Sarah @ My Joy-Filled Life says:

August 8, 2012 at 12:41 pm

This will be our first year using MOH and I’m very excited to dive into it!

We also use Apologia for science and will be studying Botany this year.

If you are interested in connecting with other Apologia users, check out the Apologia Blog Roll that I host here:

http://myjoy-filledlife.blogspot.com/2012/07/apologia-blog-role-2012-2013.html

Blessings!

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