As we soak every moment out of summer, I am simultaneously planning and purchasing for our upcoming school year. This year I will officially have five students, although my oldest student is only in my school this year, because I discovered through trial and error that trying to get scholarship funds to a Christian college is much easier if you are applying as a freshman than as a transfer student. For this reason, my oldest son will do one more year of high school to better prepare him to transfer as a freshman, and hopefully get some financial help with his schooling. I will update next year, with the results of this experiment
I will also be sending my other high school student to community college with the oldest three. This is another experiment. Only time will tell if it is a good one. He took an online class at the community college last year and scored well, so I feel it is worth a try to let him take two days a week of classes with his older siblings. Although I am presently not willing to send my children to public school (aside from my spiritual objections, I feel that high school wastes a lot of time) I do believe that older boys especially might benefit from the instruction of someone other than their mother as they grow. Especially this mother. I love teaching the younger years, but because I tend towards being a little better at relationships than consequences, having the experience of a classroom with a teacher who doesn't love them, might benefit my kids as they grow. So far, it has worked well for my students, and we will see how this one does.
Without further explanations, here is the plan.
1st Grade Boy
Spell To Write and Read/All About Spelling
Explode The Code Book 2
Rod and Staff Reading, Grade One, readers only
Mystery of History, Ancient Times
Apologia Flying Creatures
4th Grade Girl
Bible Copywork
Spell To Write and Read
Memoria Cursive
Ancient History Reading List
Mystery Of History Ancient History
Apologia Flying Creatures
8th Grade Boy
Life of Fred Algebra
Bible Copywork
Jr Analytical Grammar
(I will do this as a class with the younger sister,
followed by Jr. Analytical Grammar Mechanics or R&S Grammar)
Theme Essays with Co-op
I.E.W. Ancient History Writing Lessons
Ancient History Reading List
Apologia General Science
Studies in World History-Stobaugh
10th Grade Boy
Algebra-Community College
Theme Analysis with Co-op
Ancient History Reading List
Beginning Painting-Community College
Philosophy 1 (audit Community College class with older siblings)
English 1A (semester 2)
Studies in World History-Stobaugh
Spanish 2-BJU
12th Grade Boy
Study hard for SAT
Chemistry- Community College
Geometry- Community College
U.S. History
The children also do martial arts and ballet for physical education, as well as music lessons, for, well, music.
For science and history, we will focus more on notebook pages with illustrated and written narration than on using tests or worksheets to assess their progress. We will do experiments and hands on work in our co-op.
For Bible, I am using Long Story Short and The 18 Inch Journey as my curriculum. We will also be reading through the Old Testament and copying Bible verses.
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