Ambitious Start To Our School Year

I am going to start my home school year on August 23. Government school starts on the 22 and we are going to enjoy an "I am not going to school today" outing with friends. I have some ambitious plans for this year.

Curly is starting middle school -- I can't believe that she is going to be in the 6th grade. She will be doing between 4 to 6 hours of school a day (depending on how focused she is on any particular day).

Angel is going into 3rd grade. She is growing up so fast. She will be doing between 4 and 5 hours of work a day. 

In addition to their studies, both girls will participate in American Heritage Girls, an organization whose mission is to build women of integrity through service to God, family, community and country. The girls can earn badges, do service projects, have leadership opportunities in the troop and participate in outdoor experiences.

Group Studies

Bible Study

Monday through Thursday: Studying/lapbooking/notebooking various verses in the Bible for the first part of the year and lapbooking a catechism study for the second half of the year. 

Friday: Picture Smart Bible (formerly Picture This!) to get an overview of the books of the Bible.

Science

Monday through Friday: The Lord God Made Them All"  Science Series Pt. 1-All Things Bright and Beautiful Online Course with Catie Frates (my one splurge) Modified for Angel

History 

Monday through Friday: History Revealed: Ancient Civilizations & the Bible and Romans, Reformers, Revolutionaries Modified for Angel

Geography

Monday through Friday: Trail Guide to World Geography: Around the World in 80 Days Unit Study (did the first half of the book last year) first part on year and then U.S. State Study: Star Spangled States with a Lapbooking Component

Foreign Language 

Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday: La Clase Divertida

Home Economics

Wednesday and Friday: Future Christian Homemakers of America

Monday through Friday: Various chores around the house

Curly's Studies

Character Study

 Monday through Friday: Raising Maidens of Virtue

Math

Monday through Friday: Life of Fred: Pre-Algebra w/ Bioloy, Life of Fred: Pre-Algebra w/Economics  
Monday through Friday: Scratch Your Brain: Clever Math Ticklers 

Language Arts

Tuesday, Thursday and Friday: Total Language Plus: Caddie Woodlawn, The Wheel on the School, The Twenty-One Balloons, A Christmas Carol

Monday through Friday: Word Roots Beginning and A1

Wednesday: Punctuation Puzzler

Monday through Friday: Analytical Grammar for 10 weeks and then bi-weekly for the rest of the year

Monday through Friday: poems from Harp and Laurel Wreath 

Tuesday and Friday: Spelling Power

Critical Thinking

Monday through Friday: Building Thinking Skills 3 Verbal

Monday and Wednesday: Red Herring Mysteries 2

Tuesday and Thursday: Mind Benders 4 and 5

Angel's Studies

Character Study 
Monday through Friday: Book of Virtues with lapbooking component

Math
Monday through Friday: CIMT-MEP (Centre for Innovation in Mathematics Teaching-Methematics Enhancement Programme)
Join the Yahoo! Group mep-homeschoolers to get password to access some of the pages
Monday and Wednesday: Math Detectives Beginning
Tuesday and Thursday: Balance Math and More Level 1

Language Arts

Monday through Friday: Language Smarts Level D

Monday and Tuesday: Reading Detective Beginning

Monday through Friday: Explode the Code Books 4, 4 1/2, 5 and 5 1/2

Monday through Friday: Word Roots Beginning
Tuesday and Thursday: poems from Harp and Laurel Wreath

Critical Thinking

Monday through Friday: Building Thinking Skills 2
Tuesday and Thursday: Red Herring Mysteries 1
Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday: Mind Benders Book 3

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