This lab kit is designed to accompany Apologia's Exploring Creation with Math Grade 1 curriculum. You can purchase the curriculum here. Exploring Creation with Mathematics, Level 1, is a hands-on, interactive math curriculum. Filled with activities, projects, and games that help students comprehend lessons, students will see the connections between math, science, business, art, our world, and our universe. Most importantly, students will begin to comprehend how mathematics gives us a glimpse of our Creator. Curriculum Overview This course is an introduction to elementary math. Level 1 mathematics ensures that your student has a functional knowledge of addition, subtraction, place value, measurement, data and graphing, and basic geometry. The Exploring Creation with Mathematics Series utilizes a mastery approach. Topics are connected using a built-in review with the skills practice sections, while the hands-on projects introduce and reinforce concepts and make learning stick! The author moves your student through the material following a specific progression and 4-step approach. Each lesson begins with a tangible presentation, then moves through an illustrated presentation of the concept, followed by an abstract presentation, and finishes with an application activity. Each of these projects and lessons apply math in a way that connects it to your student’s life. In this course your student will find: Seeing Our Creator devotionals connect math concepts your child learns to God and His creation A suggested daily schedule, with thoughtful, systematic pacing through concepts Skills practice, with exciting, easy-to-set-up games, ensuring your child is prepared for new levels Hands-on activities, games, and projects using the provided activity sheets and household products aid your child in making tangible connections to the abstract concepts learned Colorful, age-appropriate lesson layouts and page design make learning more inviting for your student Options and suggestions for customizing a lesson to meet your child’s needs Supply lists, answers to the problems, teaching tips, and suggestions for taking an activity further Lesson Plans and Materials This course is designed to be done 4 days a week for 28 weeks, and each lesson takes 30 to 45 minutes. A suggested daily schedule is included with this course so your student easily understands what is expected of them each day, while also providing flexibility to meet the needs of your student and family. To be able to fully use this course, some common household and math manipulative items will be needed, and that is where we come in! We designed this kit to make the curriculum open and go. Everything is individually boxed and bagged so the parents and teachers have zero prep-work involved! Having homeschooled 7 children ourselves, we know how valuable time is, and we hope these kits are a blessing to your family as you enjoy growing and learning together!
