Woodwater Farmhouse

Today I am coming to you from our homeschool room.  I wanted to chat a minute about a wonderful new curriculum we started using from  BJU Press .  Our Sammie, third grade, recently started Adventures in Reading 3A from BJU Press.  SHE LOVES IT!   My goals for Sammie were to foster the joy of reading and look at stories through a biblical worldview.  Although there are many more goals that BJU Press has for this curriculum such as: encourage fluency teach vocabulary in context enhance comprehension There is more than enough extra teaching information in the Teachers Key.   I am finding myself not even utilizing all the information they give you in the workbook.  We have only been doing the pages that apply to the stories we are reading. They give you extra pages for skills.  I have yet to use the Teacher's Toolkit CD that comes with this curriculum.  That kit contains many aids to assis...

Today I am coming to you from our homeschool room.  I wanted to chat a minute about a wonderful new currciulum we started using from BJU Press . Our school year starts October 1st and we school all year round.  For New York State, I have to have my IHIP (In Home Instructin Plan) in to the school district by July 1st.  It's tough sometimes to know exactly what curriculum I will be using for the next school year since we have not finished the current one at that time. This year I was just not coming up with much in way of what I was looking for. I had Science on hold for now.  UNTIL.....   I was blessed in October to attend a homeschooling, blogging conference called 2:1.  One of the sponsors of this conference is BJU Press . In our swag bags there was a book and workbook from them that just so happened to be Science 4!  It was a gift from God - we had found our Science Curriculum!   From the time I had gotten home f...