Nov Week 4 - the new K program Part I

We managed to finish the Sonlight PreK program two weeks ago. There are only two books we have not finished:

1. The Complete Adventures of Peter Rabbit (under Read Aloud 2): We finished the first 3 stories and then accidentally left the book in my mom's house and kept forgetting to take it home...so we have to wait to finish the last story.


2. New Toes for Tia (Under Bible & Christian Stories 2): A wonderful true story from OMF. We finished the first 2 chapters and have not gotten around to reading the rest. It is a very small book and easy to carry out, so I have been trying to save it for when we were out somewhere (doc office, grandparent's house, restaurant, etc), but so far we have not got around to finishing it.

We started our new K program last week. It was wonderful. Always happy to start new things.

Compare to the Pre K, Sonlight K program IG (Instructor's Guide) is much better organized and more in-depth. It came with discussion questions before and after the reading for most of the books.

Sonlight K focus on History. I added in the Science. So for the year 2010, Den's main focus of study is going to be history and science. I think it is a perfect combination.

K program comes with Bible and Bible verse CD but somehow or rather, I did not order that. Hmmm.. So anyway, I searched through my collection and found the perfect solution:

For the bible this year, we are using The Word & Song Bible (Under Bible & Christian Stories). It comes with a 5-pack CD. The CD narrates all the 116 Bible stories in this Bible (at least one from each book of the Bible) and also sings the 75 songs (lyrics and music score printed in this Bible). It is an interesting change from last year's Bible reading.

For the first week of the K program, our Bible verse is :

"All have sinned and fallen short of the glory of God" ~ Romans 3:23

The bible verse for the K program is going to go from A to Z. So the first week starts with "A"ll and the second week is going to start with "B".

For Bible Reading, we covered Creation, Adam & Eve's Sin, and Noah's Ark.

Other than Bible reading, we also read a chapter each week from a Christian book called I heard Good News Today (Under Bible & Christian Stories). It is a book written to be read aloud by pastors, Sunday school teachers, parents, etc to the children. It has 96 short stories about mission work all around the world.

For week one we read about how an African boy Hosi accepted Christ and went back to his village to share the good news.

For read-aloud, we have 2 poem books:

1. The Real Mother Goose: ANOTHER MOTHER GOOSE! That's my first thought. We have been reading mother goose since Den was 2 years old. I was not looking forward to this one but Den loves it. She loves every mother goose book anyway. Compared to last year, we are reading at a faster pace. For PreK, it was one rhyme per day, in K, we read 2-4 rhymes per day.

2. In Pre-K, we have Animals Animals (Under Rhymes & Poem), and in K we have The Llama Who Had No Pajamas (Under Rhymes & Poem). We love this new book. It has 100 poems and so far we loved them very much. It is a great book to help kids to fall in love with poetry. To read one example of the poems, press here.

That's all for now. for the History and Science Lessons and Books, I will leave them for Part 2. I really need to go to sleep. :)

For review & info on Pre K books- http://www.squidoo.com/ahomeschoolingmomjornel (updated 23 Nov 2009) ; For K books - http://www.squidoo.com/booksforK (updated 23 Nov 2009)