Kindergarten things mostly for the 3 year old. Just bought Teach Your child to Read in 100 EZ lessons, and hope to start it today. We will also do math from IXL and a file folder game and simple counting, Science I made up but the first two weeks are about Rain, and Pond Animals, History is from www.lessonpathways.com
15 yr. old boy, Physical science-Apologia ( I like it a lot) English: grammar-Winston Grammar (yeah) and maybe some BJU later on Vocab-Vocabulary from Classic Roots (I love this) spelling-Spelling Power (yes, he still needs practice-but doing better) literature-we have a BJU book, but we will mostly be doing our own choice for reading Math-MUS and maybe some TT (I am a curriculum junkie and we have a lot of resources) Bible-daily reading and I did buy a book from A Beka (might use it) and we will also do some "living" out the Bible-visiting people who can't come to church, attending prayer services, etc. PE-Well I will be honest, we are not too disciplined in this area. One of my goals is to start a daily routine (for me and him) History--This is the subject I am most excited about. We are winging it. I bought a curriculum, but after some thought, I asked him if he wanted to do that or study his own choice of things. He chose to study his own stuff (who would have thought). This week he has been reading through a book about Daniel Boone. I have been reading about him also. The great thing is if you read about historical people you learn a lot about what was going on during their lives. We have a partial set of "History Of Us" and I am looking forward to buying the rest of the set. I also get to return the curriculum I bought and get back $89 minus shipping.
For ds (9) 4th Grade Ambleside Online: history, geography, science, literature, biographies, artist study, composer study, nature study. We're using the full curriculum with all the extras - and doing it secularly. Writing Strands 2: writing Simply Grammar: grammar Spelling Skills Gr. 4&5 (Harcourt): spelling Teaching Textbooks 5 then into Life of Fred Fractions: math Drawing with Children: art Minimus: Latin
7th grade girl Bible-A Bible for teen girls Abeka, poetry, spelling, vocabulary, literature All American History Vol 11 Apologia-General Science Easy Grammar Plus Math u See Zeta
DS#1 Story of The World: Volume 1 The Complete Book of Science (workbook, will supplement) Flash Kids Language Arts 4 (workbook) Saxon Math 5/4 Lesson Pathways Language Arts A Beka Art A A Beka Health 4 A Beka Spelling & Poetry 4 DS#2 Before Five in a Row Letter of The Week
We are doing the treadmill for PE. Vicki has lost 24lbs on it in 2 months. She has some female problems and had to lose iit. We are striving for her to about 70 in all. She calls the treadmill "The Death Trap."
I love answering this question! 5th grade dd is using: Bible: Picture Smart Bible (I just started selling this and we love it) Math: Teaching Textbooks LA: Easy Grammar Writing: Imitiation in Writing - Greek Mythology Spelling: Spelling Power (big orange book) Vocab: English from the Roots Up History: Mystery of History Vol 1 Science: Considering God's Creation Geography: The Ultimate Geography and Timeline Guide I just received some AWESOME worldiew curriculum by Brimwoodpress.com for review. I am gonna start selling it, but just looking at it so far, I LOVE it and want to try to incorporate it somehow at somepoint. The same goes with Add a Century Timeline. I really thought I was over doing it, but the way we have our schedule with not doing everything everyday is helping out and it is surprisingly not bad at all. We are doing great so far, although it has only been a week. My dd loves the writing curriculum. I am enjoying teaching her this year because I am learning stuff too!
12 year old Rod & Staff English 7 Chalkdust PreAlgebra Get A Clue (online vocabulary) Spelling Power Presidential Penmanship (Jr. High edition) Finishing Apologia Gen. Sci, starting Physical Sci after Christmas Finishing Abeka World History 7, Probably start Cultural Geo after Christmas IEW and Co-op Newspaper for writing Foundations in Personal Finance (taking at co-op) Critical Thinking/Debate (at co-op) Literature--We are just selecting literature to read/study...not from a particular list and she has a few literature analysis workbooks that we'll use here and there to review various lit terms. AWANA Trek program 10 year old Rod & Staff English 5 Horizons Math 5 Get A Clue (online vocab) Sequential Spelling & All About Spelling Apologia Elementary Anatomy Finishing Sonlight Core 1+2, Start Core 3 after Christmas (reading/history) A Reason For Handwriting Book E IEW for writing AWANA TNT for Bible memorization 8 year old Rod & Staff English 3 Horizons Math 3 Wordly Wise Book 3 and 4 Sequential Spelling Apologia Elementary Anatomy Finishing Sonlight Core 1+2, Start Core 3 after Christmas (reading/history) A Reason For Handwriting Book T Start IEW for writing AWANA TNT for Bible memorization PE is at co-op plus church league soccer starts next Saturday.
We're doing: With both girls... My Father's World, Creation to the Greeks, plus Mystery of History vol.1, plus some map and history things from Knowledge Quest (I like maps!) Apologia's Exploring Creation with Human Anatomy and Physiology We will be starting El Espanol Facil this month (we bought bookshelves for all my homeschool stuff last month - yayy!) Separately, they do: Singapore Math (1 & 3) Rod & Staff English (1 & 3) Rod & Staff Reading (it's reading comprehension and vocabulary using Bible readers - great program!) (2 & 4) Sequential Spelling English From the Roots Up Bible Type (learning to touch type) And they are going to be doing a Precepts (for kids) Bible study on 1 Timothy at our church during our weekly ladies' Bible study. We started doing "little homeschool" (math, English, reading comprehension, and handwriting) 2 weeks ago to get back into the routine. We are going to start "big homeschool" (everything else) this week - but not today, since I did something to my back this weekend and can't sit in the chair that long. Ouch! Hopefully tomorrow...
Together 5&8th gr. boys - English - Hands on Essays (we are liking this, I think) Vocabulary Vine (I like this!) Caught ya grammar...(not as great as I was hoping, but ok.) Science - Dr. Art does Science (book and dvd) Just started today, so not sure yet. History - read aloud "Stowaway" (kind of dull...but not horrid, fairly good mapwork...Captain cook's voyage, fiction) Simple Schooling American History- Not too bad...supplemented with videos when I can find them. Bible - Using a bible fact book we got from church...it is fun, and we have gotten into the BEST discussions. Also planning on using 'God is Closer than You Think" later, as a read aloud. 8th grade Science - Simple Schooling Physics - (the interactive online...seems to be "sticking" better than the straight text.) Math - Issues here...Algebra Survival Guide (he likes it) and trying TT (he doesn't like it) considering ALEKS...will probably go ahead and buy a month to try when we get back from vacation. Computer - writing my own lesson plans using Office for Dummies. And typing...for speed Handwriting - pretty much confined to practice signing his name....hadn't thought about it, but he had to sign a contract the other day (ok, he didn't HAVE to but still) and he couldn't. hmmmm. so we are working on that. (ps skipped cursive, and we went straight to typing) 5th grade Math- Saxon 76, with occasional supplementation from other stuff I have around. Typing- Typing instructor Deluxe Handwriting- various poems and bible verses in cursive...soon all reports final draft will be in cursive. (go figure, this one LIKES cursive)
