Since we are doing year-round school now grades are a little less clear-cut than normal.

So this is the curriculum I will be using for my twins that are in 1st-2nd grade.

RightStart Math Level C (we are actually still finishing up level B right now)

All About Spelling Level 1

For Handwriting, I am making my own worksheets for the twins.

They have been doing Handwriting Without Tears but they need more repetition and practice.

So I made my own worksheets that still follow the same approach as the program.

For Grammar, I am trying to work on a Montessori approach.

I bought these stencils and made the shapes out of felt.

I am hoping that this more hands-on approach will make it easier for them.

For History, I get picture books that are in the same time period the boys are learning.

I am using easy readers like Bob books and other phonics based books for the twins reading.

Science is similar to the boys, I just get books that cover the time period or place we are learning about.

I do try to get hands on things to go with it if possible though.

The boys are both in 6th grade.

The boy’s math is not pictured here because it is all online.

They do VideoText.com and Khan Acadamy for math.

We have been doing both of those since last year and like it so far.

They also do;

All About Spelling Level 6(we started at level 1 and still really like it).

I am having them work through Spectrum Language Arts workbook this year for grammar.

I suppliment their history with Draw and Write through history and World Empires, World Missions, World Wars Activity Book with History Revealed.

We use the Draw and Write through History more than the other.

This is what the inside of the two books look like.

The History Revealed book has activity and books suggestions.

I mean to use it more than I do.

I just don’t seem to get around to it.

I have really liked the Draw and Write through History series.

It is a little too advanced for the girls yet though.

I liked the series called Draw Write Now for them but only have one book so far.

This is the inside of the Language Arts book and Spelling book.

I found this book filled with fact sheets on World War 1 for a really good deal and have really liked it.

I usually find free quizzes or crosswords online for the boys but this was so cheap and easy I could not pass it up.

I have some of these Professor Noggins quiz games to help the boys review what they have learned.

This is an example of how many books I bought for our current study.

I rely heavily on library books for the boy’s History, Science, and Geography.

I also bought a few ebooks to go with our current study.

 

For handwriting practice, I have the boys do copywork from our current study.

For example, speeches from World War 1 or poetry from that time period.

I tie the different subjects together by timeline and keep track of it on a spreadsheet.

September	The Industrial Revolution , Cotton Gin	USA	French and Indian Wars, and American Revolution	The Runaway’s Revenge, The Chimney Sweep’s Ransom(ebooks). G.A Henty Novels	1700’s Mid-Late	Beethovan	US Supreme court
October	The Locomotive, Steam Engines		Napoleon, French Revolution, William Carey, Lewis and Clark	Alexandre Dumas		Beethovan
November	Steam Boat, Erie canal		War of 1812, Francis Scott Key, Peter Cartwright, William Carey	The Broken Blade and The Wintering ~The Sign of the Beaver, Mark Twain, Abandoned on the Wild Frontier, “William Wordsworth ” ,Cooper	Early 1800’s	Beethovan
December	James Audubon, Samuel F. B. Morse	Africa	Battle of the Alamo, David Livingston, Davy Crockett, Daniel Boone	Jules Verne	Mid 1800’s
January	Gold, Thomas Edison, Joseph Lister, Ferdinand Cohn, Microbes		California Gold Rush, Oregon Trail
February	Cells		Irish Potato Famine
March	Bacteria
April
May	Alfred Nobel(Dynamite), Louis Pasteur, Robert Koch, Viruses		Clara Barton, Pre-Civil War, Lincoln, Crimean War		Mid 1800’s
	Elevator, Transcontinental Railroad	Eastern USA, Mexico	Civil War, Clara Barton, Cinco de Mayo
	Gregor Mendel, Genetics	Western USA	Oregon Trail, Westward Expansion
June	Nikola Tesla, Bell, Electricty	Germany, France	Franco-Prussian War, the statue of liberty, Eiffel tower	The Young Franc Tireurs And Their Adventures in the Franco-Prussian War, Lamplighter	1870
	George Washington Carver, Marie Curie		William Booth, Van Gough, Paris Expo	Sherlock Holmes,	1880
August	Wright Brothers, Flying	Antarctica	Russo-Japanese War, Entente Cordiale, Leading up to WW1, Roosevelt, Panama Canal, Antarctic Exped.	Brighty	1900’s
September	Albert Einstein	Europe	WW1	The west point story(ebook), Spies of World War 1(ebook), one of ours (ebook). Sergeant York (ebook)	1914
			Amelia Earhart, The Great Depression,
	Atomic bomb		WW2, Winston Churchill, Chuck Yeager	Sound of Music, Winged Watchman(ebook), Lost Squardron	1939

 

This is what we covered over the last year.

It is constantly changing.

If I see something interesting I would like to cover than I find a place to add it in.

I like that I can just add in things we maybe missed to catch the next time around.

I don’t stick to a set schedule on how long each study will take.

It mostly depends on interest level and amount of materials to cover.