Is it okay to plan/ start a new school year before you finish the paperwork for the year before? Maybe I'd better work on the kids' assessments today... I sat down last spring and wrote out a preliminary plan for curriculum this year. I still think its a sound plan but I think I need to add a few more things. This morning I started clearing books and homeschool stuff that we are never going to use off the shelves and found a couple of things that I think we should use such as Greenleaf's Old Testament History and the Learning Language Arts Through Literature Orange Book on doing research and a report (I've got the old set and can't find a link to it). Tovah found an Origami book and is busy using up the paper I've had on the shelf for 23 years, I guess its time to let it go!
Jonah: 6th Grade
Bible/ History: Greenleaf Old Testament History, Breakout: How to Share Christ
Reading: Pathways Readers & workbooks New Friends and More New Friends
Math: Math-U-See Delta
Language: Word Roots, LLATL Orange
History: WA State History
Science: Geology MB, Scout stuff
Building Thinking Skills
Health: Baseball, Swim lessons, Scout Stuff
Isaac: 8th Grade
Bible/ History: Greenleaf Old Testament History
Language: A Beka Language B, LLATL Orange/ Research project, Vocabulary
History: WA State History Our Northwest Heritage
Science: Geology A Beka Science of the Physical Creation
Math: Teaching Textbooks Pre-Algebra
Building Thinking Skills
Arin: 9th Grade
Bible/ History: Greenleaf Old Testament History
Language: IEW Structure and Style, LLATL Orange/ Research project, Vocabulary
History: WA State History Our Northwest Heritage
Science: Math: Teaching Textbooks Math 7
Building Thinking Skills
I need to have them do some placement tests for Teaching Textbooks. Also I need to go through their Scout books and current Merit Badge Blue Cards to see what they need to finish up and start to stay on track (this has been on my To Do list since Spring Break). We haven't met with Isaac and Arin's supervising teacher yet and haven't ordered any curriculum but I think we'll get started after Labor Day with what we have on hand- finishing last year's Thinking Skills books, Merit Badge work, LLATL, and Greenleaf. I did a review for Timberdoodle on the Word Roots and Building Thinking Skills and liked them so much we plan to continue using them. I'll probably have Jonah do the literature sections of LLATL while the other 2 only do the research and report units. Wednesday nights start on the 14th and Jonah will get his Breakout book then. We plan on getting another gym membership so we'll swim once a week and they'll go to the gym at least once a week. Jonah is old enough now to go through the training and use the treadmills and exercise bikes. They like to climb the rock so we may try and add that a couple times of month. Of course, it all might change after our meeting with their teacher...
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