Kindergarten, 8th & 11th grades
Morning Time- will include everyone and is scheduled for an hour this year. With older kids doing other things harder to keep them too long. :) I decided to do a loop schedule in case something came up so this is how it is scheduled this year.
Morning Loop Schedule
Daily (30 min.) Including 5yr. old
Bible NT –
reading OR Geog/Hist lesson in SCM Matthew-Acts & Romans
Geograpy
& History on Monday & Friday – Bible on Tues.-Friday (Missionary update
monthly)
Character
Quality- discussed weekly – Read – Uncle Arthur’s Stories
Memory work
pick –Bible verses, Art, Science
Hymn Study
Trivia
question- Compact Classics
Weekly Loop (30-45 min.)
MONDAY’s
Nature Study-Tree Book (Draw) & Artist
Study (MP Enrichment guide)
Weekly
loop (Tuesday-Friday)
Ourselves (1st semester) Plutarch (2nd semester)
Pillar
of Iron (finish)
Dictation
Composer
Study (1st semester) Poetry (2nd semester)
Evidence
that Demands a Verdict (only did parts of this book)
Uncle
Arthur’s (Character)
Pillar
of Iron (completed this year)
Shakespeare (Much Ado About Nothing & How to Teach Your Children Shakespeare)
Book
of Centuries
Evidence
that Demands a Verdict
Dictation
Pillar
of Iron
Official Kindergarten Year
Taking a more relaxed approach and trying to let him be a kid. :) We are only planning on about 1 1/2 hrs of actual "work" where we are sitting at the table. Not counting our reading. It will be broken up but are mostly working on some math, spelling, and writing. The rest of the day he will play and is able to hang out with brothers during morning group time. Reading will happen throughout the day morning, lunch, rest time, before bedtime. The lists always seem more hefty then they really are. Instead of making a detailed week plan this year I did more of an "idea" list of things to cover, books, activities, etc. I wanted it to be a fun exploration year. He loves learning of other countries so we will be focusing our time and attention on other cultures and countries and since he never went to preschool we wanted to include some community helpers to round out the year. :)
Final Book list here
Bible- Golden Children's Bible, Leading Little Ones to God and 5 Minute Devotions (and working through AWANA first year Sparks :)
Literature- Since he is on a 2nd grade reading level decided to boost him up to MP 2nd grade for most things. Will be reading the following this year:
Alternating list- 3 days week
·
Read Flat Stanley before the week of school
starting
·
Animal Folk tales of America/ Alternate with
Billy and Blaze series
·
Prairie School
·
Courage of Sarah Noble
·
Little House in the Big Woods
·
Bears on Hemlock Mountain
·
Peter Rabbit, Benjamin Bunny, Tom Kitten, Johnny
Town Mouse
·
Boxcar Children #1 & 2
Ivy and Bean & others
Betsy Tacy
Twig
George and the Marvelous Medicine
The Chocolate Touch
Velveteen Rabbit
See Through the Forest - Selsam
Pathway readers: 2
days week read:
·
Busy Times
·
More Busy Times
·
Climbing Higher
Audio Books-read aloud (with me)
·
Matilda
·
James and the Giant Peach
·
Lion Witch and the Wardrobe
·
Peter Pan (couldn't get through)
·
Penderwicks- Spring
Penderwicks- Garden Street
Penderwicks - Pt. Mouette
Little House and the Long Winter
The Water Horse
Five Little Peppers and How they Grew
T My Side of the Mountain
Heidi
Penderwicks- Garden Street
Penderwicks - Pt. Mouette
Little House and the Long Winter
The Water Horse
Five Little Peppers and How they Grew
T My Side of the Mountain
Heidi
**Also reading the MP 2nd grade Literature as assigned including the poetry enrichment.
Spelling- Reading Lessons through Literature (starting with Level 1 to solidify all of the phonics rules and then working through not sure how far will get this year but will probably begin Level 2) Switched to All About Spelling and completed level 1 then started copywork and CM dictation
Writing - Continue correct letter formation and beginning copywork
Math - Decided for my sanity since I am familiar with Saxon after using it with my other two children will be switching back from Singapore to Saxon. Saxon 1 this year and continuing with Math Seeds
Science/History- Just readers - Memoria Press 2nd grade curriculum + readers, misc. list will post list at the end of the year. Once a week nature study and once a week reading God's Big World magazine and activities
Geography/Community Helpers- see help list below all of the books including in the study and will list a final book list at the end of the year of all of the other books we covered during the year.
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Reading: Window on the World on each country, Around the World, Missionary Stories with the Millers, using My Book House, The Children's Hour collections, Uncle Arthur Bedtime Stories, Our Little Cousin Series, Seven Little Sisters Who Live on the Round Ball That Floats in the Air, Twin Books (Perkins), Peeps at Many Lands, Audrey of Outback, Boxes for Katje, Children of the Noisy Village, and many others. For Community Helpers- using Want to Be Series and list of various books (see list at end of year).
Spanish - Memorizing songs (Lyric Language Spanish) and working through Cherrydale Press (Speaking Spanish With Ms. Mason) (ended up using Spanish books (Brown Bear Brown Bear what do you see - memorized this one this year) and working using youtube videos for color learning, basic daily use of words) Memorized - Doxology, Jesus Loves Me Also looking at taking advantage of some apps when we finally get cable internet!! :)
Memory work - Memoria Press 2nd grade
Fine Arts -Memoria Press 2nd grade enrichment
Art- using Global Art and Preschool Art
Piano - starting in the winter last year taking classes privately continuing once a week
8th Grade
Bible - Reading through the Gospels, Romans study (Simply Charlotte Mason)
History/Literature/Theology - online class: Starting Points at The Potters School see book list:
How to Read Slowly
Know Why You Believe
Frankenstein
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
The Deadliest Monster
Mere Christianity (Required)
Never Before in History - America's Inspired Birth
The Magician's Nephew (Required)
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (Required)
Christian Beliefs: Twenty Basics Every Christian Should Know (Required)
Other books reading- What Happened to Penny Candy, The Deerslayer, Story of the World vol. 3
Science - Science Matters and various chapters in Microbe Hunters also included an Astronomy unit end of the year - using Sabbath Mood Homeschooling guides & The Planets by Sobel along with Galileo's Daughter
Math- We felt like he needed another yr of review for Algebra so we are trying Jann @myhomeschoolmathclass.com (he benefits so much from a live teacher- ) Continued on taking Geometry with me using Harold Jacobs - Geometry text
Drill - Geography drills (world 2x wk), Scripture memory: AWANA (using verses that my youngest will be memorizing) Also memorized John 3
Grammar- IEW Fix It Level 3 (2x week), Rod and Staff Book 7 (2x week), Dictation 2x week
Writing- IEW Starting Points (coincides with his History/Lit class)
Latin II- online at Landry Academy using Latin Alive 2 - after the split we continued with the same teacher at Big River Academy
Logic- Art of Argument CAP
Other readings- How to Read a Book (parts)
Life skills - (continuing on from last year) working on note taking and organizational skills this year along with doing own laundry and working through this book mostly when we have time and weekends: The Young Man's Handybook: Preparing your Son on the Homefront
PE - participating in a homeschool basketball league this year (mostly year round)
Violin - free time practicing
11th Grade
Bible - Reading through the Gospels, Romans study (Simply Charlotte Mason),
Literature/Grammar - Dual enrollment courses at Bluefield College- Eng 102 (2nd writing course) and will be taking Literature Appreciation (for his final Lit. requirements for undergrad.) Couldn't get into his class so he took British Literature also reading: Watership Down, David Copperfield with me. Will also keep him reading by:
Old Western Culture - Roman Roads Media Year 2: Romans see book list: http://www.romanroadsmedia.com/store/the-romans.php didn't finish the last 9 wks. so would like to fit that in as part of our Lit course this year: Nicene Christianity and then adding the following books to read: Consequences of Ideas (Sproul) and The Jesus I Never Knew (is what we hope to complete this year have an additional list if time to complete more) Also hoping to read more speeches this year and using the list from Ambleside Online.
Will be finishing up Classical Rhetoric this year, reading How to Read Slowly and our 2nd reading of How to Read a Book
Dictation- 2x week
History- DE -Bluefield 2 semesters of U.S. History (to finish up his History requirement for undergrad) didn't get in -took Government at Truett McConnel University and Microeconomics at Bluefield
Current Events- will be reading and writing a summary of the events of the week
Science - Astronomy- homegrown using various resources and having him do more research than anything: using parts of Muses of a Mom course she made and including labs from Super Charged Science Astronomy 3 CD and the following books: Microbe Hunters, Great Astronomers, Stargazer's Guide, Taking Back Astronomy (used the clep guide to prep - The Idiot's Guide to Astronomy & Astronomy for Dummies alongside of DVDs) Dantes test at the end of the year to get college credit
Math- AP Calculus w/ Derek Owens
Drill - Geography drills (world 2x wk), Scripture memory: AWANA verses with brothers
Electives:
Sociology- Taking the Intro to Sociology DE course at Bluefield
Personal Computers - DE Bluefield College (took this summer)
Logic- Moral Philosophy- taking a course at Memoria Press Academy
PSAT prep- taking a month course at Memoria Press Academy
Guitar - plays in 3 different bands (High School band at church, and a special event band and fills in about once a month on Sunday mornings for the adult band) also helps out teaching the Middle School Band
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