Not Back to School Blog Hop: Curriculum Week

I am participating in Heart of the Matters "Not Back to School Blog Hop: Curriculum Week". This will be our 1st "official" year to homeschool and I chose curriculum from several different publishers. Everyone recommended that we go with a "boxed curriculum" to keep things simple but my children do not fit a box mold and neither do I. The kids will be in 1st grade and below is the curriculum I chose. It seems like a lot but since they are all in the same grade, most of it will be done together as a group.

MATH
Math U See - Alpha

PHONICS/READING
Saxon Phonics 1
Daily independent and group reading from personal library and local library

LANGUAGE
First Language Lessons
Supplemented with language games and materials from my old teaching supplies

SPELLING/VOCAB
Horizons Spelling and Vocab. grade 1

HANDWRITING
Handwriting Without Tears (finish K book and begin 1st grade)

SCIENCE
Our Fathers World
Supplemented with books from my personal library & experiments from:
Mudpies to Magnets
1-2-3 Science
Everybody Has a Body
Bubble, Rainbow, and Worms

HISTORY
Abeka - My America & My World
Wall maps
Readers and biographies from my personal library and the local library

BIBLE
Leading Little Ones to God
Bible
Bible memory and flashcards

MUSIC
Story of the Orchestra and CD
Classics for Kids website

ART
Draw, Write, Now! Series
Study one artist a month

P.E.
Girls - soccer
Clay- Boy Scouts
All- play dates with friends

ELECTIVES
Aesop's Fables
Primarily Logic
Jesus Loves Me Sign Language
Teach Them Spanish
(These will be done mostly on Fridays or at night with Daddy)