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I have finally finished getting this printable first grade curriculum ready for you to download.  I believe in sharing the fruits of my labor and want any parent who cannot afford curriculum be able to home school their child.  It will cost you some printer ink and paper, that’s all!!!

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I have utilized some other FREE downloadable pages from starfall.com.  I have used this online site way back 20 years ago when they first started and offered cases of their items for free.  Now you have to pay for them to have them shipped, but you can download and print them for free as well.

This is the site

http://more.starfall.com/info/downloads.php

Print off the following items:

Block Print Writing Journal I

all the cut up books

For myself, I used black and white colors as to save on ink.  My children enjoyed coloring them in themselves.

Then I did some filler work.  I bought at the discount store a book of mazes, dot to dots, and hidden pictures.  They cost me 50 cents each.  I then went to this site and printed of some mazes.  I gave them 2 extra filler pages each day.

I did the easy mazes for ages 4-6.  I chose two books and printed them off.

Mazes, Free Printables, Easy to Hard

This is enough school to do 3 days a week and covers all that your  first grader needs to know.  I just finished testing my first grader and it covered the same items.

Sept 12 days, Oct 12 days, Nove 12, Dec 9, Jan 12, Feb 12, March 15, April 15, and May 6 days.  This equals 107 days of school.  But there is much work to do in one day, you can easily split it up between a few days.

I am keeping this short, lots going on over here in our little corner of North Carolina and I will be sharing soon.  But I wanted to get this out for those of you that are preparing for next year.   I will post soon how I organize it all together.

Be blessed.

If you are a homeschooling mom you are probably like me, where you might skip over a few things over the years and then by the time your child enters middle school you wonder if you taught them everything they are supposed to know.

For myself, we teach at different levels for each child.  What one grasps easily another may struggle.  We glide over things that are difficult and fly through the easier things.  I have found most math textbooks are way too repetitive and pointless.  I know, but that is just me.  After teaching my older ones, I realize what really needs to stick and what you just “need to know.”  That is why I revamp and write my own.

This elementary Math curriculum covers everything required from 1st grade up to 5th grade.  It is repetitive in  the “important” things and teaches the “less important” things.

I will be having my 5th grader do this as well as my 2nd and 3rd grader.  The 2nd and 3rd grader will work at a slower pace but my 5th grader will work at a faster level.

Use it for the 5th grader who needs a good review or use it as a challenge for our younger grades.  Use it for a couple of years, since it covers up through 5th grade.

If you need a rough estimate of where each grade level begins and ends—as you know you review every grade level as you get older, but here is the breakdown:

1st grade goes up through page 30;  2nd grade ends on page 80;  3rd ends on 120;  4th ends around 140;  and the rest is 5th and lots of review.

Again this is a FREE printable PDF file.  Print it off and give your child 1-2 pages each day of school.  They will learn much and it won’t cost you more than paper and ink.

Enjoy and be blessed.

click here for the download.