Candra Georgi: My Father's World Kindergarten

This was my first year [officially] homeschooling and I chose My Father's World curriculum after asking my friends & visiting a homeschool conference sale. I mainly chose this material because it takes a Charlotte Mason approach to learning [exploring outdoors, lots of reading, Godly character focus, emphasis on experience rather than textbooks, etc]. In the end, we really enjoyed it, learned a lot, and plan to use it for our other children.

To see a sample weeks lesson, My Father's World provides one here.

Pros:

-It's inexpensive comparatively

-I find it very easy to navigate around the teacher's manual

-I like the unit study idea [taking a subject per week to mediate on]

-I like how it's adaptable to different age groups so I can involve my younger children

-Provides a great suggested reading list in the appendix

-It takes about 60-90 minutes per day [just right for the age I think]

-Incorporates crafts, science projects, and reading comprehension ideas/games

-Worksheets are useful & helpful [one or less a day]

-Comes with lots of materials to reinforce [like flashcards, games, etc]

-Always points back to Christ

Cons:

-The math [for my child at least] was not quite as advanced as I had hoped [that was 1st edition, I hear they have improved it]

-Sometimes the lessons lacked enough craft ideas, but thank God for Pinterest to fill in those gaps

-The original version did not have a schedule, so I made one, but now there is one
-It's broken down into 26 lessons of 6 days, plus creation to attempt to reach the 180 days requirement, but I didn't like to study, for example, S is for Sun Monday-Monday, and then M is for Moon, Tuesday-Tuesday, etc, so I just cut out day 6 and divided the work by 5 days and so we just did one unit study per week Monday-Friday. If that makes sense. It ended up making us finish early too. Just added time to each of our 5 school days.

My favorite blogs I referred to during this time were:

Training Them Up [great week to week examples] [great preparing for mfw k]

MFW Official Forum [click here]

MFW Blog Hop [click here and look for bloggers who blogged on K]

Mama Jenn [great printables]

My additional post on some extra supplements & supplies I purchased to use this year.

Below is a weekly post of each unit. I tried to list the subject, character mediation, scriptures, books we read, crafts we referred to, and any other important information that might help you along your journey throughout it. I become pregnant half way through the year and was sick for several months...if you notice some weeks less exciting than others. I plan to add to these posts as we revisit these units with other children.