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Bob Jones Kindergarten and 1st grade - opinions needed
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Question:
Our family has decided to start home schooling our children, and we
were looking for some input on the Bob Jones home schooling curriculum.
Answer:
-Most of the regulars would suggest that you do kindergarten without any
curriculum, except a phonics curriculum if your child is ready to learn
to read.
Do a google search of this website for the word 'kindergarten,' (but
watch out for Grandpa Koca's sig) and you will find lots of great ideas
for things you can do without a curriculum.
Any time the subject of kindergarten comes up, I ask the poster to check
out this link:
http://triviumpursuit.com/articles/ten_to_do_before_ten.htm
- I've used BJU since second grade for my daughter and love
it. I don't know about their earlier grades though. Their site is
http://www.bjup.com .
-Welcome to the group and the wonderful world of Homeschooling!
We have used Bob Jones math since our second year of homeschooling, and are
quite happy with it, but that has been our only Bob Jones curriculum use.
The younger grades have easy to understand tear out workbooks, the older
grades have (resuable!) textbooks.
Really, for the younger ones - you'll hear this again and again from most of
this group - let them PLAY and learn from that, and read to them, read to
them, and read to them. They will absorb an incredible amount of
information as you read (books from the science and history section of the
library are WONDERFUL!) to them, they will learn to love to read themselves
this way, their attention spans are lengthened, you get to cuddle with your
kids. Some things we did when our kids were that age that was wonderful
education, and not much like "school" at all was - making home made play
dough (science, art); leaf rubbings, bug and flower identification,
countless hours of blocks and legos, helping in the kitchen, etc. Life in
general, as you went about it when they were 3 and 4, is SO easy to gently
metamorph into "school," without anyone (parents or kids!) being traumatized
by it!
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