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This is our 8th year using the My Father's World curriculum and I still love it. We will have a 3rd grader, 5th grader, and a 7th grader using the 1850 to Modern Times materials. HISTORY We will continue from last year's study. This year, we will learn about the happenings in the world and the U.S from 1850 to now. We will also continue the state study and the president study. These are the examples of state sheets and president sheets I made for the kids. We will listen to Story of the World (The kids and I have enjoyed Jim Weiss' reading for the past books, so we will continue this year). We will also do activities and worksheets from the Activity Book. Lil Sis will do some worksheets from this book instead of the activities from the Story of the World. These are the read-alouds we will be doing.  (for the older two) (for Lil Sis) GEOGRAPHY We will learn the location of states and capitals. I have a feeling the S

Bible We will finish the memorization of James even though school is "done". I hope to do reviews in the summer. History These last weeks we do research on New York State Study. We used the State Study Book and learnt about research, bibliography, paraphrasing, and quotations. Then the kids did their research online as well as from some books from the library. Big Sis' State Report Big Bro's State Report We read Bound for Oregon. This is a good read-aloud book. Big Sis continued reading her books of the "Little House Series". She found this book in the library which she thought was really interesting. Language The kids continued to do Rod and Staff English (and will continue to finish up in the summer). The older ones did not do spelling for these last weeks but Lil Sis continued with Spelling by Sight and Structure. Science No Science Art We did not do art. Book Basket Books we read for le

Our last month in Preschool. Such a sad notion for me. We are ending with Fairy Tales. Jack and the Beanstalk The books we read. We even did an online interactive version which was really fun! We planted "magic beans" and are still waiting for them to grow! (but alas, they did not.) :( This drawing of the giant was so fun! The Elves and the Shoemaker This video we watched was interesting. Three Little Pigs Sequencing Cards This app for the story is fun! (I think it's not available anymore) We made the story props Baby Sis LOVES to play with the props Little Red Riding Hood Rapunzel Dollar store hair. She LOVES it. Sleeping Beauty We read some books on abcmouse and also played some educational games on ipad. And this girl graduates from Pre-Kindergarten! Pinterest Board for all t