Back to School After Eid

Well we are back to school work today. Last week was a bit hectic so while we did some schooling we didn't get too much done academically. Although I do think our Arabic skill benefited quite a bit.
Tuesday was Eid and yesterday we also took the day off from school work for recuperation purposes.

So far to day we are in a pretty relaxed mode. We started an hour ago and began with our official math book. It has manipulatives that you punch out of the back of the book which is always fun. The lesson was basically just review of Kindergarten level math.
Currently he is making his invention from his English lesson. It goes with the book Tools by Ann Morris. It talks about tools giving examples from around the world. My Little Man drew a picture of a tool of his own invention and is now creating it using legos.
I would still like to cover Islamic studies, Arabic and science. As well as practice spelling and writing, both handwriting and composition. Like I said we are going about it very relaxed so if we don't get to them today I wont fret.

Addition facts

By the way we are currently working on addition facts, and again thrift store finds save the day! I  picked up Addition (ISBN 0-7696-4451-1) It has a CD with useful, but obnoxious songs to help the student.  The cover, really covers all the contents.
I also have the subtraction one. I paid a dollar a piece for them. It seems to be paying off, I ask him before he begins if he want to listen to the CD. He has +0 down and just about has +1, has a hard time remembering the name of 12.  I think in another week he will probably be more than ready for +3.  He has just been giving the answers orally. 

English Curriculum

So until some other amazing thing comes along, which tends to happen but I dobt it will beat these choices, I decided we will use Scott Foresman Reading 2nd grade for the first 16 weeks, and then Harcourt Collects for the second 16 weeks. And since we homeschool year round to a greater or lesser extent I the remain 20 "official" days are easy to add in.

SF Reading includes, phonics, comprehension, writing, grammar, spelling, vocabulary, web quests and test taking skills (I am not to worried about the test taking skill parts because while we probably will do the state tests occasionally we may not as they are optional.)

H Collections includes comprehension, grammar, spelling, writing, web quests, and phonics.

 As far as penmanship goes, this is a septate issue.

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!

I found something wonderful!

This is a book I got at a used book store today. It is similar to Ray's Arithmetic or First Lessons in Arithmetic but uses modern language. It was published in 1934 and is titled How We Use Numbers: The Triangle Arithmetics A Second Grade Number Book. It was published by The John C. Winston Company Philadelphia. I am pretty sure this is a k-1st grade book. The first page has a picture of 3 children and a pig in a pen.

It reads

Ned, Betty and Dorothy

Ned is nine years old.

Betty is seven years old.

Little Dorothy is only four.

The children love their home on the farm.

They make pets of all the farm animals.

(This was very easy for my son to read. We talked about the picture then went to the next page.)
On page 2 there is a picture of a a girl tossing a ball in the air in front of a lovely house.
It reads:

Tossing a Ball

Betty can toss and catch her ball ten times

without missing.

She counts:

one two three four five six

  1      2       3       4      5    6

seven eight nine ten

    7       8        9    10

How many times can you toss and catch

your ball without missing?

Try to bounce your ball ten times without

missing.

How far can you count?

This is the cover

You can see what it is like. Very simple, straight forward and allows him to act very independently. It covers counting to 1000, writing numbers, making sets, addition and subtraction, greater than/less than skip counting, time, money,2 digit addition and subtraction, place value, measurement and more. There is a lot of built in review and many many hands on activities.

A randomly selected page

Another page

A review page

The back

His scratch is from a cat.

Passwords for various text books and links

http://www.docstoc.com/docs/document-preview.aspx?doc_id=82095303
http://www.docstoc.com/docs/document-preview.aspx?doc_id=82095304
http://www.docstoc.com/docs/document-preview.aspx?doc_id=82095381
http://www.docstoc.com/docs/document-preview.aspx?doc_id=82095505

English
	Languages of Literature Grade 6	http://www.classzone.com/books/language_of_lit_gr06/index.cfm?state=MD
	Languages of Literature Grade 7	http://www.classzone.com/books/language_of_lit_gr07/index.cfm?state=MD
	Languages of Literature Grade 8	http://www.classzone.com/books/language_of_lit_gr08/index.cfm?state=MD
Health
	Teen Health Course 1	http://glencoe.mcgraw-hill.com/sites/0078697603/student_view0/
	Teen Heath Course 2	http://glencoe.mcgraw-hill.com/sites/0078697611/student_view0/
	Teen Health Course 3	http://glencoe.mcgraw-hill.com/sites/007869762x/student_view0/
Spanish
	Realidades 1 Web Code jck-0001	http://www.phschool.com
	Realidades 2 Web code jdk-0001	http://www.phschool.com
	Realidades 3 Web code jek-0001	http://www.phschool.com
French
	Discovering French Bleu 1	http://www.classzone.com/cz/books/french_1/book_home.htm
	Discovering French Blanc 2	http://www.classzone.com/cz/books/french_2/book_home.htm
World Studies
	A Message of Ancient Days World Studies 6	http://www.eduplace.com/ss/hmss/6/index.html
	Across the Centuries World Studies 7	http://www.eduplace.com/ss/hmss/7/index.html
	Creating America World Studies 8	http://www.classzone.com/books/cas05/index.cfm?state=MD
Math
	Math 6	http://www.glencoe.com/sec/math/mac/mac01/course1/
	Math 7	http://www.glencoe.com/sec/math/mac/mac01/course3/
	IM	http://glencoe.mcgraw-hill.com/sites/0078738180/student_view0
	Algebra 1	http://www.glencoe.com/sec/math/algebra/algebra1/algebra1_05/
	Algebra 2	http://www.classzone.com/books/algebra_2/index.cfm?state=MD
	Geometry	http://go.hrw.com/gopages/ma/geo.html

Links to Free Math Books (1st grade)

I am on the great journey of selecting math curriculum. I know that I could buy something, or I could just kinda do an ad-hoc kind of thing but I want to do neither. I want it free, not counting the cost of printing and manipulatives. I want it to be very interested to my son and preferably scripted or at least very heavily outlined. I am not very comfortable with math and I want my son to love it and do well with it. (The opposite of me.)
There are actually quite a few options out there. We could use a very old fashioned text book like First Lessons in Arithmetic published originally by Brothers and Company. The Grammar of Math is a site that a private school teacher has made video lessons and supplemental materials to accompany the book. I think she uses the book in her class room. There are other similar books that I like. For example First Lessons in Numbers, Oral and Written by Benjamin Greenleaf, A.M. The problem with it is that it does not cover geometry or algebra. I covers measurement and somewhat covers money. There are other books that do cover these areas but the money part is out dated. Pictures of money from when I was a child are out dated so one can imagine.
There is the MEP program. It looks a little in appearance but it seems to be primarily activity based and would take quite a bit of preparation. They use it in Hungary and the UK. A similar program is CSMP.
And of course there is the typical school books. I will just list them rather than give much info as they are all kind of similar anyway.

• Go Math Florida TE (Intended for children that are either up to 2 years behind their peers or more than 2 years behind their peers.) This is the TE. Here is an index of many other resources that go with it. Take your time and explore.
• Go Math Florida Student edition. 
• Think Math TE
• Think Math Student addition
• Math Expressions
• Math Expressions TE A cool thing about this one is that you can access a lot of resources that go with each lesson by clicking the resources button. Tests and everything.
• HSP Math NC I don't like how this one id displayed, but NC is known for the best schools in the US.
• HSP Math NC TE It seems to be very similar to the Harcourt book we had.
• CA Mathematics McGraw ID camath01 password redwood Has a student handbook. This is a site that has mini lessons and games to accompany the book.  D6FFE73DD6 is the code to link and had the text book with audio available and occasionally links to the games page under the resource button.
• NCERT Mathmagic is made by a government agency in India I believe. Scroll down to Class 1, which is for 6 to 7 year olds.
• Georgia Math ID fcsfirst password fcsmath 
• Math Connects D6FFE73DD is the code. F765640977 or AEF03A3C25 for 2nd, A838535E8A or DA4F562186 for 3rd, CB77A58EB7 or E3488CCEF0 4th, A7B8EC5CE9 or E3F898A3AB 5th, A8FBM1C38F or F066E2B8F1 6th, A84CFF6287 7th.
• HM Georgia Math ID 1classdekalb Password dekalbstudent1 you can change the grade by changing the number

Science Curriculum Choice

I am almost certain we will use Scott Foresman curriculum again for science. Everything is laid out for you as the teacher, I found basically all the goodies and texts online free and we are familiar with the format.
He can do it fairly independently, despite being a public school text book. He really like to do the Before You Read page prior to each lesson, which is a true/false questionnaire that helps him start to think about the subject at hand.
Apparently the math a few years ago wasn't very good but I haven't looked at their math yet.

I don't know how to directly post files to the page so when I find the links I mentioned I'll post them In the mean time if you have a bit of free time you can find the curriculum online free. Try searching for Georgia and Scott Foresman.

Links for Free Curriculum or Text Books For 1st Grade

So here is a list of links that could be useful for other young families.  BTW North Carolina is supposed to have the best schools in the country so I use their standards and pacing for guides.

• Used homeschool curriculum, and homeschool groups, events, and activities 
• Home - Rainbow Resource Center, Inc.  
• SCM Curriculum Guide – Simply Charlotte Mason 
• BCP Glossary Lesson Pathways Browse Categories 
• Free Homeschool Curriculum and Educational Resources - Homeschool Buyers Co-op 
• Curriculum Based Programs, Interpretation and Education, National Park Service, U.S. Department of the Interior 
• TJEd Online.com: Your online resource for education, training and support for A Thomas Jefferson Education 
• Old Fashioned Education Freely Educate LeapingFromTheBox - Homeschooling and Unschooling Information and Educational Resources 
• كتب مباحث الصفوف الأساسية والثانوية 
• Classic Curriculum Scope and Sequence Grades 1 - 12 
• Pass Words For Georgia Text Books in Fulton
• Text Books 
• Ideal Muslimah and other books
• The Presidents Challenge (fitness) 
• Dictation lessons in drawing for primary grades
• Object Lessons 
• Pearson - Prentice Hall Social Studies 
• Grade 2 Science
• http://activities.macmillanmh.com/science/ca/grade2/index.html 2nd Grade Science
• FOSSweb - Air and Weather 
• http://msnucleus.org/curriculum/curriculum.html Free k-12 science curriculum!
• http://science.education.nih.gov/customers.nsf/ESDental.htm Dental unit for little ones
• Technology Curriculum k-6 
• The arithmetical primer. Underhill's new table-book; or, Tables of arithmetic made easier. By D. C. Underhill ... 
• 19th Century Schoolbooks Collection 
• First lessons in arithmetic on the inductive pl... 
• The Grammar of Math: First lessons of Arithmetic  This site has videos and many other resources to go with the previous link 
• California Mathematics - Grade 1 - Chapter 1
• http://ceure.buffalostate.edu/~csmp/  CSMP complete curriculum for math
• http://www.sfreading.com/ Has grammar book, and various other materials
• Language Arts: State Resources take some time and explore this one
• The gradual primer, or, Primary school enunciator: The child's first step, taken in the right place, Part I
• McGuffey's eclectic primer 
• The new Franklin primer and first reader
• For reading Assessment 
• Starfall's Learn to Read with phonics 
• http://www.harcourtschool.com/menus/harcourt_brace_spelling.html
• http://www.homespellingwords.com/1st-Grade-Spelling-Words.htm 
• Mrs. Perkins' Dolch Words
• http://www.k12reader.com/first-grade-spelling-words/ 
• http://treasures.macmillanmh.com/national/teachers/building-reading-writing-skills/supplementary-grammar-writing-activities
• http://treasures.macmillanmh.com/national/teachers/building-reading-writing-skills/supplementary-grammar-writing-activities 
• spelling assessment
• First lessons in language, or, Elements of English grammar
• The Grammar of English McGuff 
• McGraw-Hill | Grammar & Writing Activities »
• Zaner-Bloser Handwriting Products - Grade 1 - Zaner-Bloser Teachers' Store  free page maker
• Islamic Copywork
• Arabic primer 
• arabic primer audio
• Comprehensive List of Madinah Arabic Resources 
• Learn arbic: lesson 1
• Learn Quran 
• TJ Blog MY FAVORITE SITE IN THE WORLD! 
• The site Talibiddeen JR