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To be honest I'm non really sure why I'm writing this listing of our curricula for the coming year. I guess because I know how much Charlotte Mason and classical homeschoolers love to look at other people'southward book lists! Hurricane Harvey didn't actually do as well much to our boondocks, but then a couple of days afterwards he'd left, all of the water he dumped over southeast Texas came roaring downward the rivers here in boondocks leaving about 2/three of the homes and businesses in our modest town with flood damage. For a few days in that location was no way in or out of our town due to all the roads being underwater. Luckily our dwelling house was spared, but now the inundation waters have gone away for the well-nigh part, and our town is busy helping friends and neighbors rebuild their homes and lives. At this indicate our curriculum plan, at least for the foreseeable hereafter, should be: Disaster Response 101 and Loving Your Neighbor Advanced Level. Simply since I'm hoping that eventually nosotros'll get to the plans I've put together for our 2017-2018 school year, I'll share them more than equally a wish listing for the (hopefully) near future then what we are currently studying.

Grace is entering eighth form this twelvemonth (cue fainting and panic attacks) and since high school is thundering over the horizon (cue more than fainting and panic attacks), I wanted to let her last twelvemonth of pre-high school work be one of freedom and control over her schooling choices earlier we start having to count credits next yr. You lot'll notice that a couple of her subjects look a bit different than the traditional course work. I'm reviewing a new Charlotte Mason curriculum this school year (thanks to the generosity of the author), so about of her content subjects come up from that curriculum.

Math: Math-U-See (still working for this math hating child of mine, so nosotros're still using it!)

Spelling: Apples and Pears (finally finishing this spelling series this twelvemonth with a thou percentage improved speller on my hands from when we started)

Writing: Writing with Macbeth at co-op (I'g over again educational activity a writing class at our local co-op. It'south a high school level writing course centered effectually Shakespeare'south play, Macbeth. The students will exist learning how to write literary essays, compare/dissimilarity essays, and a big research newspaper the 2d semester just to proper name a few of the assignments. Grace is a good enough writer I believe she can handle this class every bit an 8th grader.)

Literature: So I'grand not going to lie, this is the ane subject I'm most excited almost this year. Why? Because Grace wanted to spend the unabridged twelvemonth studying fairy tales, and then we are. We'll be looking at three modern fairy tale retellings, three modern fairy tale novels, the original Grimm and Perrault tales, examining fairy tales at a deep spiritual, Biblical level, and hopefully having lots of big, juicy conversations well-nigh it all. The only catch? Nothing similar what I wanted existed, so I had to write it myself from the basis upward. Of grade she'll also be reading some American historical fiction, nature lore books, and geography novels every bit well, but our big focus is all things fairy. I'thou hoping to drop in every so often here on the web log and allow you know how this ane is going.

History: Commonly, I have 2 concurrent streams of history going at one time: American and Globe, but this year Grace wanted to study mythology (one of her favorite things) in lieu of globe history. I thought, "Why not?" and so away I went. Luckily I establish a practiced general outline for our study online (and information technology was free which is even better!), just basically, she volition be studying Greek and Roman mythology the showtime semester and Norse, Arthurian, and Arabian mythology the second semester. All yr long she'll too exist reading various books containing mythology from around the globe. For American history, she'll exist roughly studying the period from 1700-1800 which ways French and Indian War, Revolutionary War, and the Constitution.

Foreign Language: Correct at the end of concluding school year Grace decided she wanted to go back and start her French book over again. She felt like she wasn't dedicating plenty time to her French studies and wanted a redo with a more focused mindset. She'll be continuing on with Getting Started with French this year.

Personal Bible Study: I decided last year that Grace would no longer exist using the Bible Report Guide for All Ages with her siblings, instead she would showtime her own personal Bible study time. In fact, I waited also long to do this with her. She'll be working through the New Attestation workbooks from The Nearly Important Thing You'll Ever Study by Starr Meade.

Sophia is a fifth grader this yr, and she's ever super excited well-nigh school. It'southward probably no coincidence that when we loaded her handbasket for the kickoff term, she had more books to read and study than anyone. Sophia is my ane child who is using the Charlotte Stonemason curriculum I'm reviewing totally as it'due south written. I know she's going to accept a bang-up year.

Math: Math in Focus and Beast Academy (this combination seems to be perfect for my math loving daughter!)

Spelling: Apples and Pears Spelling Book B

Grammer: I actually wasn't going to take Sophia do grammar this year since we spent a yr studying it terminal year, merely I'yard teaching a Grammer Fun class at our local co-op, so she'll exist in at that place by default. I remember most of information technology will be review, but it's e'er better to larn grammar if you're doing it through art and games.

Writing: She's using parts 2 and three of Treasured Conversations this year. Afterwards that she'll movement back to Writing and Rhetoric.

Literature: Both of my girls are spending an hour of their day this year doing nothing simply reading some great books. Hither's Sophia'due south list for literature this year: Tales from the Odyssey, D'Aulaire's Greek Myths, Our Little Athenian Cousin from Long Ago, Our Petty Spartan Cousin from Long Ago, Christian Liberty Nature Reader 5, Our Earth, Seabird, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Where the Mountain Meets the Moon, A Long Walk to Water, Caddie Woodlawn, An Ordinary Princess, Sarah, Evidently and Alpine, Harry Potter and the Magician's Stone, Matilda, and The Children of Green Knowe. We won't practice anything super formal with these books, but we volition talk about them (a la narrations).

History: In case, you could't effigy it out from her literature list, Sophia will exist studying Aboriginal Hellenic republic this year. Her spine volume will be The Story of the Greeks by H.A. Grueber. She will as well be studying the same fourth dimension menses in history equally her older sister, The American Revolution era (1700-1800). Once again, she'll be using another Grueber book as her spine, The Story of the 13 Colonies.

Foreign Language: I don't know what it is nigh Sophia, simply she loves languages and it'due south really amazing how well she picks them up. She's almost halfway through Getting Started with Spanish, and so we'll end that up this year and we're also adding in Latin for her using Getting Started with Latin. Can y'all tell I like the Getting Started With serial?

Personal Bible Written report: I wasn't really going to purchase annihilation special for this area for Sophia this year, simply she saw me using one of my favorite Bible study tools, a Journible, and decided she wanted one besides. I asked her which book of the Bible she'd similar to study. I assumed she'd want something like one of the gospels or Genesis, but she wanted to dive headfirst into Romans. Well, alrighty then. Zip like tackling 1 of the weightiest books in the unabridged Bible! Thank you to her abiding nagging I bought her a Romans Journible which should be here every bit soon equally postal service service starts up again after Harvey.

Out of all my children, I'yard about excited to teach first class for the last time with Levi. Why? I think it's because his first form yr is shaping upwardly to be so different from what I did with his older sisters. I'yard really adhering to the less is more philosophy with him. A few well chosen books this yr, only five subjects a day, and this male child is ready to become.

Math: Math in Focus (all of my kids start with this math programme because it's just so good)

Phonics: Logic of English Foundations (he'south finally sounding out words!!!!)

Handwriting: He's finishing Getty-Dubay Italics Book A and then copywork for the residual of the twelvemonth.

History: As a first grader, history is mainly just an exposure of famous people and stories from American history. Nosotros'll start out the twelvemonth reading through some American tall tales using Mary Pope Osborne's book, American Alpine Tales. The rest of the year we'll read selected stories from American Tales Reader by Michael G. Gaunt which tells about famous people from American history all while in a fictional story about a family unit. I'm pretty certain he'due south going to beloved this i!

Literature: Basically this fourth dimension in Levi's day is devoted to some great children's classics. He'south already been poring over these books looking at the pictures and getting excited to hear me read them. This year we'll read: The Beatrix Potter Drove, Just and then Stories, The Bluish Fairy Book, and Aesop'south Fables.

So that'southward it! Once we get our boondocks back on its feet nosotros'll be diving caput kickoff into a great year of Charlotte Mason inspired learning.

What form or bailiwick are y'all well-nigh excited about this yr?

Chelli

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