What comes with Daily Lesson Plans?
Today, I’m answering a question from a homeschooling mom asking about what comes with our Daily Lesson Plans.
Here’s the question:
I want to make sure that I understand ordering options correctly. The 1st grade daily lesson plans don’t include the lists of books, the teacher manuals, or the k-2 unit study program tools, right? What comes with the daily lesson plans? I guess what I am really trying to ask is, side-by-side, what are the exact differences between the Daily Plans and the Unit Study Programs? Thank you for your time. M.
My short answer is that the Unit Study Tools are programs that provide you with the Unit Study Framework. You’ll get:
Our Unit Study Tools are unstructured programs. That means that we give you the tools you need to put together your own customized units.
We teach you how to use history and science books to teach integrated history, science, and language arts. And all using the best of the best children’s literature! Conveniently, our book suggestions are divided by time period and topic. Read more about using our Unit Study Tools here.
Related: Unit Study Tools or Daily Lesson Plans? Which is best for your family?
Our Daily Lesson Plans are a done-for-you curriculum.
Alternatively, our Daily Lesson Plans are a completely done-for-you curriculum. We provide Daily Plans for one year of homeschooling, integrating history, science, language, and fine arts.
This is a structured program that gives you:
As well, we give you teaching instructions, answer keys, and weblinks to supplemental information.
Basically, you’ll just have to add the books. (Also, you’ll need a math program and foreign language, if you want it.)
The Bottom Line
So, back to answering M.’s question — you don’t get the lengthy book lists, Teacher’s Manual, etc. in the Daily Lesson plans.
Because you don’t need them!
You’ll already have all the curricula for history, science, language arts, and fine arts that you need for one year.
If you need to know the basics of homeschooling, you can decide to add a Teacher’s Manual to your order. We have a lower grades Manual that covers K-5th grades, and an upper grades Manual that covers 6-12th grades.
Both manuals help you:
Additionally, the upper grades Manual has special sections about teaching high school! Particularly, about tracking high school credits (with forms and examples) and writing high school essays.
questions about our Daily Lesson Plans after downloading the sample week? please use the Contact Page link at the top of this page. we’d love to hear from you.
Happy planning!
