{"id":757,"date":"2011-06-11T09:26:52","date_gmt":"2011-06-11T13:26:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ificandothisyoucan.com\/?page_id=757"},"modified":"2011-06-16T14:05:13","modified_gmt":"2011-06-16T18:05:13","slug":"curriculum-review-k","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.ificandothisyoucan.com\/?page_id=757","title":{"rendered":"Curriculum Review &#8211; K"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here is\u00a0a list of curriculum I used for my oldest son Ephraim for Kindergarten.\u00a0 Ephraim has Sensory Integration Disorder but gets better with it each day.\u00a0 He is an intense learner, a nerd you could say.\u00a0 I don&#8217;t have any problems with him sitting down to do his work.\u00a0 He does get extremely emotional when he can&#8217;t figure out something fairly quickly.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Ephraim finished the curriculum for the following subjects.\u00a0 I&#8217;ve given each a grade based on how it worked for me teaching it and Ephraim learning it.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">LANGUAGE ARTS<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Teach Your Child to Read In 100 Easy Lessons<\/strong> by Engelmann, Haddox and Bruner<\/p>\n<p>SCORE: A+<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-762\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ificandothisyoucan.com\/homeschooling\/kindergarten\/curriculum-review-k\/teach-your-child-to-read\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-762\" title=\"Teach Your Child to Read In 100 Easy Lessons\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ificandothisyoucan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/teach-your-child-to-read.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"196\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>When I first opened this book, I hesitated to use it because of all of the funny characters it used with each lesson.\u00a0 Nevertheless, I decided to try a few lessons to see if it would work.\u00a0 To my surprise, not only did it work on Ephraim, but it also worked on my 4-year old Caleb.\u00a0 Each lesson only took about 10 minutes to prepare and 15 minutes to teach.\u00a0 We completed all 100 lessons and Ephraim is a confident reader who can decode many words on his own now.\u00a0 This book is good stuff and will have your child reading by lesson 30.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">MATH<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Earlybird Kindergarten Mathematics Textbook B<\/strong> by Cavendish<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.singaporemath.com\">www.singaporemath.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>SCORE: A+<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-763\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ificandothisyoucan.com\/homeschooling\/kindergarten\/curriculum-review-k\/earlybird-mathematics\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-763\" title=\"Earlybird Kindergarten Mathematics Textbook B\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ificandothisyoucan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/earlybird-mathematics.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"196\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Ephraim was already ahead in math and so we skipped Textbook A and went right to Textbook B.\u00a0 This was the perfect level for Ephraim and he enjoyed learning each new concept.\u00a0 This textbook is in full color and loaded with pictures to help the child learn each concept.\u00a0 The only sections Ephraim struggled on were 17 (tens &amp; ones place) and 20 (money).\u00a0 If your child likes math, I highly recommend this curriculum.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">SOCIAL STUDIES<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Social Studies K<\/strong> by A Beka Book<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.abeka.com\">www.abeka.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>SCORE: B<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-764\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ificandothisyoucan.com\/homeschooling\/kindergarten\/curriculum-review-k\/social-studies\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-764\" title=\"Social Studies K - A Beka Book\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ificandothisyoucan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/social-studies.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"195\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This curriculum covered all the basics for<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Community Helpers<\/li>\n<li>America: Our Great Country<\/li>\n<li>Children of the World<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I give this a score of B because it has plenty of activities for the children to do but it lacks instruction and guidance or tips on how to teach each lesson.\u00a0 Ephraim now has a basic understanding of having pride in our country,\u00a0geography, and different cultures around the world.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">WRITING<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Beginning Alphabet &amp; Numbers by Crayola<\/p>\n<p>SCORE: B<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-765\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ificandothisyoucan.com\/homeschooling\/kindergarten\/curriculum-review-k\/crayola\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-765\" title=\"Beginning Alphabet &amp; Numbers - Crayola\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ificandothisyoucan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/crayola.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"160\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Practice makes perfect.\u00a0 This is a basic writing tablet to practice ABC&#8217;s and 123&#8217;s.\u00a0 The pages tear our easily for photocopies and the illustrations are in black and white which is much easier on the printer than the full-color writing tablets.\u00a0 I&#8217;ve purchased a lot of writing tablets but I always came back to this one when I really wanted Ephraim to sit down to do a lengthy practice to perfect his letters.\u00a0\u00a0My only disappointment with this tablet is the number section is very weak.\u00a0 But after practicing with all the letters, Ephraim could write the numbers fairly easily.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">SCIENCE<\/span><\/p>\n<p>I could not find a suitable curriculum for this area of study.\u00a0 I pretty much developed my own curriculum and studied things like:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Plants<\/li>\n<li>Weather*<\/li>\n<li>Space\/Solar System*<\/li>\n<li>Bugs\/Insects<\/li>\n<li>5 Senses<\/li>\n<li>Water<\/li>\n<li>Gardening*<\/li>\n<li>Animals<\/li>\n<li>My Body<\/li>\n<li>Snakes\/Alligators<\/li>\n<li>Birds of Prey*<\/li>\n<li>Fossils<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>We checked out books from the library on each topic and completed worksheets that I found on Scholastic Printables.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>*a field trip was taken to learn more about this subject.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">MUSIC<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Essential Elements 2000 for Strings &#8211; Violin Book\u00a01<\/strong> by Allen, Gillespie &amp; Hayes<\/p>\n<p>SCORE: A<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-773\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ificandothisyoucan.com\/homeschooling\/kindergarten\/curriculum-review-k\/violin-2\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-773\" title=\"Essential Elements 2000 for Strings\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ificandothisyoucan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/violin.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"200\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Ephraim did very well with this book.\u00a0 I think he is a little gifted with music so learning the notes and how to read music is easy for him.\u00a0 This book has great illustrations to teach the child how to hold the violin and the bow.\u00a0 The thing I like the most is the software and CD that come with the book for play-along sessions.\u00a0 Ephraim loved when he played his piece along with the CD.\u00a0 It made him focus more on getting the music and timing right.<\/p>\n<script src=\"http:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/all.js#xfbml=1\"><\/script> <fb:like href=\"https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ificandothisyoucan.com%2F%3Fpage_id%3D757\" show_faces=\"false\" style=\"margin:0px 0px 0px 0px;\"><\/fb:like>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here is\u00a0a list of curriculum I used for my oldest son Ephraim for Kindergarten.\u00a0 Ephraim has Sensory Integration Disorder but gets better with it each day.\u00a0 He is an intense learner, a nerd you could say.\u00a0 I don&#8217;t have any problems with him sitting down to do his work.\u00a0 He does get extremely emotional when [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":394,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-757","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ificandothisyoucan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/757","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ificandothisyoucan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ificandothisyoucan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ificandothisyoucan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ificandothisyoucan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=757"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/www.ificandothisyoucan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/757\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":772,"href":"https:\/\/www.ificandothisyoucan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/757\/revisions\/772"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ificandothisyoucan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/394"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ificandothisyoucan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}