Large Family Homeschool Curriculum Choices 2018-2019

It’s time to start sharing curriculum! Today I am sharing our 2018-2019 large family homeschool curriculum choices. These are the subjects we do “one room schoolhouse style.” All of my children who are able participate with us when it comes to all of these subjects. We are using My Father’s World as sort of our spine, but I’m adding in lots of other things that I am so excited about!

Multi Grade Homeschool Curriculum Picks

Bible Curriculum

We are using the Bible curriculum included in MFW. So we will be studying and memorizing verses from the book of Matthew. We will read from Hero Tales, as well as Window on the World. 

I will continue reading from our Bible story book for my little guys.

Geography Curriculum

Our main focus this year is on learning about new countries and cultures. We will use MFW to do that, as well as Beautiful Feet Books. 

Here’s a list of the books we will read and study from My Father’s World ECC:

• Flags of the World Ultimate Sticker Book
• Exploring World Geography
• God Speaks Numanggang
• Children’s Atlas of God’s World
• Classroom Atlas, 13th Edition
• Wall Map of the World
• Maps and Globes
• Geography from A to Z
• A Trip Around the World
• Another Trip Around the World

We are adding in the Beautiful Feet Books Around the World with Picture Books Part 1 study. This study includes so many wonderful books!

• Maps
• Anno’s China
• The Story About Ping
• Grandfather’s Journey
• The Tale of the Mandarin Ducks
• Crow Boy
• The Lotus Seed
• Once a Mouse…
• Hush! A Thai Lullaby
• The Story of Little Babaji
• The Emperor’s Egg
• Mirror
• The Day of Ahmed’s Secret
• Wangari Matthai The Woman Who Planted Millions of Trees
• Emmanuel’s Dream

Science Curriculum

I am using the science from MFW, so we will focus on animals and ecosystems with Properties of Ecosystems and The Living World Encyclopedia from Usborne.

I’m adding some unit studies from The Good and the Beautiful. We will use the Safety unit study, as well as the Arthropods unit study.

Art Curriculum

We will do some projects from Global Art, and I forgot to mention it in the video, but we love doing the chalk pastel lessons from You Are an Artist. I will likely add in a few of those lessons. I’m also considering watercolor lessons. If you know of any good ones, let me know!

Music Curriculum

We will use Wee Sing Around the World as a family.

Our Morning Basket Charlotte Mason Enrichment Choices

Our morning basket is our favorite part of the homeschool day. This year I am following the Ambsleside Online rotation for our artist study, composer study, hymn study, folksongs, and poetry.

So, here’s a look at that:

Term 1 Enrichment Studies

Artist – John Constable

Composer – Carl Maria von Weber

Hymns – Children of the Heavenly Father, Like a River Glorious, All Hail the Power

Folksongs – Cockles and Mussels, Freight Train, The Green Grass Grew All Around

Poet – Walter De La Mare

We will also read A Midsummer Night’s Dream from the book Tales from Shakespeare. 

Family Read-Alouds

Together we will read:

Mr. Popper’s Penguins

The Wind in the Willows

Missionary Stories from MFW

(And I haven’t decided on the others yet)

Stay tuned for our individual curriculum picks next week and check out the YouTube video below!