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Showing posts with label history. Show all posts
Showing posts with label history. Show all posts

Sunday, June 26, 2011

The Next Step/I have decided what we will use in each subject!

So here is the big list:
  • English
    • reading: Scott Foresman Reading, Harcourt Collections
    • writing: 6 Traits of Writing 1st Grade, Scott Foresman Reading, Harcourt Collections
    • grammer: Scott Foresman Reading, Harcourt Collections
    • spelling/phonics: Scott Foresman Reading, Harcourt Collections
  • Penmanship
    • English: Spencerian Penmanship
    • Arabic: Iqrah Reader, and various printables
  • Science: Scott Foresman Science 2nd grade
  •  Social Studies
    • History: Our Prophet, and Our Country
    • Civics: Our Country
    • Geography: Our Country and Al Ummah
    • Culture: See IS and Geography
    • Economics: Our Country
  • Mathematics: How We Use Number, and Mathematics in Action
  • Islamic Studies
    • Salat: My Salat Companion (TJ)
    • Quran: Juz 30
    • Aqeedah: Most resources from TJ (Talibideen JR)
  • Arabic:
    • Reading: Madina Arabic Reader book 1
    • Writing: Madina Arabic Reader book 1, Iqrah Reader 1st grade
    • Oral: Madina Arabic Reader book 1, Iqrah Reader 1st grade
  • Health:
    • cooking/nutrition: weekly meal prep,
    • other: Harcourt Health, and various other individual resources for each topic

Social Studies Curriculum Choices

So as that SS concepts tend to be far above a 1st grader I am not terribly worried about this subject at this point. I am breaking it down like this, history, geography, civics, culture, and economics.
For history we will study seerah. I am thinking we will use a kids book published by Darusalam and a little workbook type booklet that I can't think of the name of at the moment. For geography, civics, and economics we will use Houghton Mifflin Social Studies Our Country. Very simple, and has audio with it. Culture will be incorporated in seerah and the text book.
If he has a hard time with any concept, I doubt it, it will be easy to supplement with the many resources i have found. 

Thursday, June 23, 2011

New goodies from the thrift store!

I picked up Mathematic in Action grade 1!  It is the pupil edition. (Just recently realized edition and is spelled with an "e" >< boy I feel dumb, lol.) It is of course an older publication but it really doesn't take much to tweek it into more advanced standards.
I also got Addison-Wesley Mathematics grade 2, The American Nation student text book. So now I am set to go as far as American history. (We won't be covering that for a bit yet inshallah.)
I got a nice calculator for school work as well.
I have so much fun doing this kind of stuff!