I cannot believe it is that time of year again!! For us, we school year round and our school year 2010/2011 is coming to an END!! The beginning of June marks a new year for us!! I can hardly believe it! And, I have to say, this past year has been one of our BEST years yet!! We just really got in a groove, even after a few months of trying to figure out adding in a 3rd student. We had lots of successes and you will notice that the things we loved most about last year will be continuing into the next year!! I am so thankful for the wonderful school year we have just completed!!
Our biggest successes and joys from this past year were Teaching Textbooks for math, science & spanish with 2 other families, getting a “groove” with 3 students, lots of memory work and making some good headway in language arts!!
For the coming year, you will see the biggest change is that we will not be doing unit studies as our “main thing.” GASP! Our school year will revolve around our history program, we will be trying this out and hopefully it will go well! I will say that I am planning to ADD IN unit studies (and Five in a Row titles) wherever they fit with our history program! We will also be reading books from the Beautiful Feet book list for American History along with our main text.
As we start our year, for the summer we will be doing a USA Geography course!! Here are the resources and plans for our summer fun!
Hannah – 4th/5th grade
Bible stories, devotions daily
Math – Teaching Textbooks 4, then 5 (about halfway through year)
Language Arts – Rod and Staff 3, then 4 (about halfway through year)
IEW for writing – slowly starting work on keyword outline now with only Hannah
Memory Work – Scriptures and Linguistic Development by Andrew Pudewa
Spanish – La Clase Divertida, Level 2
Science – Exploring Creation With Astronomy 
(with 2 other families meeting 1x per week)
(with 2 other families meeting 1x per week)History – A Living History of Our World by Angela O’Dell
Spelling Wisdom Level 1 (we are through lesson 10 at this point already)
English from the Roots Up
– finish Volume 1
– finish Volume 1Lots of reading! 🙂
Emily – 3rd/4th grade
Bible stories, devotions daily
Math – Teaching Textbooks 4, then 5 (about halfway through year)
Language Arts – Rod and Staff 3, then 4 (about halfway through year)
Memory Work – Scriptures and Linguistic Development by Andrew Pudewa
Spanish – La Clase Divertida, Level 2
Science – Exploring Creation With Astronomy (with 2 other families meeting 1x per week)
(with 2 other families meeting 1x per week)History – A Living History of Our World by Angela O’Dell
Spelling Wisdom Level 1 (we are through lesson 10 at this point already)
English from the Roots Up– finish Volume 1
– finish Volume 1lots of reading 🙂
Caleb – 1st grade
Bible stories, devotions daily
Math – Bob Jones Math 1 Student Worktext (3rd ed.)
Language Arts – Explode the Code Book 2
Reading – Bob Books, Set 1: Beginning Readers
Science – Exploring Creation With Astronomywith the girls
Science – Exploring Creation With Astronomy
with the girlsHandwriting – on our own, no curriculum
Other – he will be reading books with the girls and I as we go through American History, I will be adding in picture books for his benefit, I’m sure the girls will enjoy them too! 🙂
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Sounds wonderful!!! Good Luck!!
Sounds wonderful!
Looks great! Have you ever posted a schedule? I would love to see how your homeschool day runs! I’m trying to figure out a schedule with 5 kids, two of which are 1 and 3! Our schedule seems to flow around the 1 year old which isn’t working very well!
Enjoy kicking off your new school year! Thanks for taking the time to share what your family is learning together. I often come away with an idea I can use in our homeschool. Thanks!
Sounds fantastic!! You are so inspiring! We’re gearing up for our first year. I’ll be getting all of our curriculum next week. Can’t wait!