Our School Year Kick Off!

Our official school year kick off is in October. We start a month later because September is a holiday month for us. We HS throughout the summer and I am pleased to report that we had a great school year. I have almost all my materials for the next year with the exception of a few consumable workbooks. I've created a mish mash of curricula that works well for each child and our family situation. It's always fun for me to research and pour through curriculum catalogs to come up with next year's goodies. And the kids love to open their box of books from Sonlight to discover what literature they'll be reading next. :)

Gates - 9 years old!

Bible - A reading from Jesus' life/or a parable along with The Jesus Encyclopedia, Memory Work

History, Geography, Read Alouds - Sonlight Core 3/4 (American History)

Science - Sonlight 4

Language Arts - Spelling Wisdom, Abeka Grade 4, copy work, Creative Writing (Sonlight), readers

Math - Finish up Right Start Level C (3/4 way through) and then onto Level D, Zillio Math Mountain

Handwriting: Hand Writing Without Tears - Cursive

French - L'Art de Dire

Electives - piano, Art

Extra Curricular Activities - Girls Club, Skating, Swimming

Shakespeare - We will be studying Twelfth Night - the play, No Fear Shakespeare, Stories from Shakespeare etc and take in the play at the Stradford Theatre

Grey - 7 years old and in grade 2

Bible - A reading from Jesus' life/or a parable along with The Jesus Encyclopedia, Memory Work

History, Geography, Read Alouds - Sonlight Core 3/4 (American History)

Science - Sonlight 4

Language Arts - Explode the Code, Readers, Abeka Grade 1

Math - Finish up Right Start Level B and then onto Level C, Zillio Math Mountain

Handwriting: Hand Writing Without Tears - Cursive

French: L'Art de Dire

Electives - Art, Music Appreciation

Extra Curricular - Boys Club, Skating, Swimming

Shakespeare - We will be studying Twelfth Night - the play, No Fear Shakespeare, Stories from Shakespeare etc and take in the play at the Stradford Theatre

Grace : 3 years old - just little no grade! :)

Bible - She sits in with us but I'll give her a Bible Story Book to look at and she'll have some memory work.

Books, Books and BOOKS - Sonlight's P3/4 - just literature, some puzzles, mighty mind

Preschool Activity Bags - I have about 40 of them now.

Math - she likes playing with her junior abacus and number cards, the Right Start counting sticks.

Other - Crafts, Music Appreciation, Swimming Lessons

I have my first two in the same Core, it makes it considerably easier for all of us. They have separate seat work though. I'll take books from the core Grey is suppose to be in and read them now and again. But honestly, the kid has a fantastic memory and he loves to discuss the books.

They will each have a schedule, color coded and I have even included Grace in the schedule but I won't enforce it, when she comes and asks me for her school or needs something to do I'll just refer to it to see what she'd be doing during that time slot and set her up with it. She likes to copy whatever her brother and sister are doing so I let her have at it. But I'm not insistent she have a program, it's mostly to make her happy and feel like she's schooling. Also I've scheduled in some time for Gates to read with her. Grace loves to be read to by her older sister, and Gates loves doing it, plus it's good for Gates to practice. I love listening to her read to Grace because she has the voice inflections going on. It's good for her to learn to read an engaging story as well as her reading skills.