Literature Unit and New Resource

Have you become addicted to Pinterest yet?  I've been enjoying looking at crafts, crochet patterns, and recipes, but, guess what I found today?  An "Education" section!  Oh my do I love finding new, fun, ideas for learning with Faith!  So here I am to share just a couple that I found in the few minutes I had to spend looking.  I foresee hours of surfing fun in my future!

I love literature.  I love reading it, teaching it, and doing fun activities with it.  Our next books are going to be "The Snowy Day" by Jack Ezra Keats and "The Jacket I Wear in the Snow" by Shirley Neitzel.  

Follow this link for a fun activity:  "The Snowy Day"

You can also find a "Wintery Fun" math and literacy themed unit.  

Or, if you want to be overwhelmed...click here!

Stay tuned for pictures of our Wintery Fun activities.  Amazon, here I come!

The Snowy Day

Winter is here....make the best of it! :)

Curriculum Low Down

Before I share about our wonderful day on Wednesday I thought that I should share the curriculum that I (we) are currently using.  I say we because I have a wonderful daycare/home school provider who has been a tremendous help and really relieves some of the burden.  This is what we do...

Artistic Pursuits Grades K-3 Book 1.

Faith is an artist! Seriously, she LOVES art.  Most everything we do incorporates art and the foundations came from this book.  This book says Grades K-3.  We have enjoyed almost the entire book this summer.  If you have an artistic child, this book is wonderful.














The Story of the World Vol. 1 Ancient Times (Activity book is a must for a kinesthetic (hands on) learner)

After reading "The Well Trained Mind", I decided that I would like to follow the classical approach as much as possible.  Since this is way to extensive to get into here, I will just recommend this book along with The Story of the World Series.  You will see very quickly what an awesome curriculum this is and how much we enjoy learning about history.

Exploring Creation With Astronomy

This is a wonderful book full of activities.  Apologia has an entire series and I plan to use them straight through our journey. 

 













We are doing Math and Reading/Writing with our wonderful day care provider so I will cover those in a future post.  These by far are the favorites for us both at the moment.  This post will give you good background info for my next post about our wonderful "first" day.  Hope this helps in your curriculum search. :)