Curriculum – Page 5 – Homeschool Aunt Chaos

Sy-la-dot is a newer curriculum that I just came across. It was created to help children with disabilities such as autism and dyslexia. This curriculum is in progress of being created or added to the site.

Math currently there is only level (K-2)

Cursive Program (2-3)

Typing Program currently there is only level (3)

There is also a Reading Program that can be purchased for about $60.

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McGuffey Eclectic Readers

April 17, 2025May 10, 2025 Dae-dae

Here are the PDF files for each of the books in order…

McGuffey’s Newly Revised Eclectic Reader, Volume 4, 1866

McGuffey’s Eclectic Reader, 1879, vol. 5

McGuffey’s Eclectic Primer, 1909

McGuffey’s New First Eclectic Reader: For Little Children, 1857

McGuffey’s New Second Eclectic Reader for Young Learners, 1939

McGuffey’s Third Eclectic Reader, Book 3, 1920

McGuffey’s New Fourth Eclectic Reader, Book 4, 1866

McGuffey’s New Fifth Eclectic Reader, Book 5, 1866

McGuffey’s Sixth Eclectic Reader, 1921

McGuffey’s High School Reader, 1889

McGuffey’s New Eclectic Spelling-book, 1865

McGuffey’s New Juvenile Speaker, 1860

I have developed notebooking pages for the McGuffey’s Eclectic Readers.

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Coming to a close…

May 28, 2023May 28, 2023 Dae-dae

Well this is our last week for the 2022-2023 homeschool year. Five whole days left! Then it will be summer break until July 10th when we once again begin. It seems like such a long time ago when we first started this journey, and now it seems to be just a blink of an eye some days.

I’ve been stressing myself out over next year’s curriculum and have come to the conclusion. That I need to branch out and take control by creating what my kiddos need instead of trying to bend curriculum schedules and materials for the boys. So in June I am doing a full overhaul of the curriculum and schedule.

Not only will I be rearranging our curriculum, well the only curriculum technically being used for next year will be for language arts and math. For the rest of the subjects, I will be using a mixture of old or vintage educational books along with newer up to date books as well to give the boys more well rounded lessons. I’ve done a lot of research working all this out. One thing I plan on implementing more of is the Charlotte Mason method of notebooking. We did it for a short time about a year ago. I’m hoping this coming year will be different as we use it for more than one subject.

Anyways look forward to the next post about what I will be using and some alternatives I have for backup.

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Let’s start planning…

May 6, 2023 Dae-dae

Ugh… Planning! There are roughly 228 days excluding weekends and holidays between July 10, 2023 and June 7, 2024. Minus the holidays we take off for which gives us about 210 to 215 days depending. Which gives me leeway to make 40 to 44 weeks of lessons. So that means I need to roughly print out about 30 double sided sheets of my week planner and 120 double sided of my day planner. Printing extra for wiggle room if needed. I don’t do monthly or yearly because that makes it way too complicated for 4 schedules. I’m going to be busy tomorrow 😏

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Curriculum Fails for 2022-2023 homeschool year

May 4, 2023May 4, 2023 Dae-dae

Well I’m not really sure I can call them fails, but more of they just didn’t work out for my kiddos.

Minecraft Math with Fun-school Journals

This one simply didn’t work out do to how long I had to divide game time in order for each kiddo to have a turn. Then while the others waited I tried to work on something else.

Unfortunately, my main focus was when they could have their game time. So this just was more of a distraction then anything else. Maybe it would work if you only have one kiddo instead of four.

Wild Math

While I loved the concept and thought it would be wonderful to try. It was hard to implement especially to four kiddos with various forms of learning disabilities and ADHD. It just wasn’t a good fit for them.

The Good and The Beautiful Math

Beautiful and well structured. We used it for the first half of the year before it was get way to advanced for their ability. I was going to just drop them a level and then start again this coming year. It unfortunately didn’t go as planned. So I had to try something different…

Grammar Galaxy

While it was a hit and works for my eldest, it fell flat with my other three. They loved the story, but the work was too confusing for them.

I hated to have to change and find something so late in the year, but I rather have them understand what they are doing then having them confused. So off researching I went…

Plain and not so plain

It should be called plain and simple! Lightly structured and easy to use. There was only two down falls I can say with this curriculum.

One is that it’s a loop curriculum that doesn’t focus on one thing before mastery. Which is fine if your kiddos learn better that way. Unfortunately, mine don’t so…

The other issue is as it progresses through especially in the upper grades, if you don’t know your language arts or math terminology it’s going to give you a headache 😅 No, seriously you just need to make sure you brush up with a YouTube video or something in order to help your kiddos understand the material.

Overall it was great in a pinch, but we will be changing for the upcoming year.

Curriculum wins will be coming up in a future post. So stay tuned…