What Do I Get In A Curriculum?

Each curriculum includes two basic approaches: discussions and worksheets.

Each is your choice. If you choose discussion, there is a special sheet for your child to write their name and date on. Then, as you discuss a new word or idea, your child checks off that item. This is still dated documentation of a discussion you had.

So when you look down the list, and you see "Discussion Sheet". This is still something your child fills out. Think of it as a simplified worksheet. It's also documentation.

If you choose a worksheet because you want your child to have some writing practice, that's fine too. There are lots, and lots of worksheets as well.

Don't think you or your child has to do ALL OF IT. You don't! You can pick and choose. Do as little or as much as you like. You can even do some now, and some days later, or even weeks later.

If it's a topic you want your child to go deeper in, then there's lots of curriculum for that too.

Just remember, YOU are the PARENT, and your JUDGEMENT as to what's right for you and your child at the time is the RIGHT THING.

Each Curriculum Includes at least the following items:

Parents Guide New Vocabulary Discussion Sheet New Vocabulary Worksheets New Concepts Discussion Sheets New Concepts Worksheets Pre-Reading Parents Guide Pre-Reading Establish Purpose Discussion Sheets Pre-Reading Establish Purpose Worksheets Multiple Chart Of Retention Worksheets

Pre-Reading Analysis Worksheets Power Reading Parent’s Guide Power Note Taking Worksheets Final Evaluation Worksheets Vocab Word Flash Cards Active-Idea-Hunt worksheets Create-A-Cartoon worksheets Sketch-An-Idea worksheets Create a Scavenger Hunt Instructions and Worksheets

Create a License Plate Template Crazy Story Instructions and Worksheet 3 Crossword Puzzles 3 Decoder Challenge Puzzles 3 Missing Word Challenges 3 Word Searches 3 Spelling Scrambles And much, much more!

*NOTE: All worksheets, puzzles and challenges includes parents guides/answer sheets.

These are basically sheets that you fill out with your child’s name and date showing what your child did and accomplished. These are designed to be official looking, and serve as documentation. Of course we never recommend providing your state more information than is required.  But whether your state requires them or not, you have them! That’s the point. You have documentation of what your child did, when, what they learned, what they covered, etc. It’s a self-documenting system. If the errant grandparent shows up and wonders what you’ve been doing, you can pull out a pile of papers, and say, “here!”.

These range from sheets that your child actually fills out to answer questions, down to discussion questions that you can simply check off once you talked about the answers with your child. You are going to get A LOT. Don’t worry, you don’t have to use them all. You can use as little or as much as you and your child like. You can spread them out over time, put them all together into one lesson, or whatever you like. Hey, you are the parent, we trust your judgement over all else. Always. But whatever your choose, you have lots and lots to choose from. Just know that no one expects you to use all of it. It’s just available to you.

The curriculum you find here does not cover every single topic, but they do have an obvious focus on reading and comprehension. So you can use this curriculum along with whatever you are normally using. If your curriculum is lacking, or light on a subject, you can also find items here to help out. If you want a little Ecology covered, we've got that. Want some living history on the Revolutionary War, we've got that too.

The curriculum you find here does not cover every single topic, but they do have an obvious focus on reading and comprehension. So you can use this curriculum along with whatever you are normally using. If your curriculum is lacking, or light on a subject, you can also find items here to help out. If you want a little Ecology covered, we've got that. Want some living history on the Revolutionary War, we've got that too.

First, we started with known, main-line publishers. This insures almost every library system carries those books. We worked with librarians to find out the best information to give them when requesting a book. You will see it like this:

Library Request Info:
Babe Ruth Saves Baseball
Murphy, Frank
Random House, 2005

The first line is the book title, followed by the author (last name first) then publisher. Since call numbers actually change from library to library, call numbers weren't reliable. That information is the best.

Your best tactic is to select several titles you want to do. Then give the list to your local librarian. Books they have on the shelf you will get. If not, ask your library to "Request The Book" for you. The request goes into the whole library system through your county, and sometimes State-wide. Then within a week or so, the book is brought to you and put on hold at your local library. Pretty cool huh. We do it ALL THE TIME.