Our Curriculum Choices for 2013-2014…

Elizabeth – 12.5, in 8th-ish grade

• Bible – Apologia Who is My Neighbor and Why Does He Need Me? and notebooking journal…working our way through this series. She loves it! {Also reviewing Beauty in the Heart. Wonderful!}
• ELA – IEW Student Writing Intensive B and Tapestry of Grace lit and writing…her writing has improved greatly lately!
• Math – Life of Fred Pre-Algebra 1 with Biology. Finally. And VideoText Algebra – yay!
• Science – Apologia Exploring Creation with Physical Science and notebooking journal. We love Apologia science!
• History/Geography – Tapestry of Grace Year 3. Liz and I both love this comprehensive classical curriculum that covers all social studies, literature, writing, and worldview.
• Electives – Second Form Latin, Homeschool Programming, piano lessons with our neighbor, Harmony Fine Arts w/ ARTistic Pursuits. We do these once a week or so.

She’s earning high school credits already. wow.

Victoria and Katherine – 7 and 6, respectively, in 2nd-ish grade

• Bible – The Dig Volume 2, Studying God’s Word B, and Bible Study Guide. The girls love to do all these every day! I try to mix it up a little.
• ELA – First Language Lessons (1-2), Spelling Workout B, IEW, Logic of English. We don’t do all of this every day.
• Math – Life of Fred Butterflies and Singapore Math 2. We alternate days with these. Tori prefers LOF and Kate prefers Singapore. Compromise!
• Science – Apologia Exploring Creation with Human Anatomy and notebooking journals. Kate especially loves experiments.
• History/Geography – Tapestry of Grace Year 3 with Story of the World, years 3&4. The girls are finally enjoying history and the read alouds, notebooking, maps, narration, projects.  yay
• Electives – Prima Latina, Song School Spanish, Children’s Music Journey 2 online piano, Harmony Fine Arts w/ ARTistic Pursuits. We do these once a week.

Alexander – 3, in preschool

Alex knows all his letters, their sounds, and he’s starting to put them together to make CVC words! He knows his colors and numbers past 100. I’m taking it slow with him because I can. He is loving his “school work” and it’s great review fun. But I can tell he’s getting a little bored.

• Letter of the Week
• Raising Rock Stars Preschool
• All About Reading pre-level
• Logic of English Foundation A
• Poppins Book Nook monthly theme units
• Children’s Music Journey 1 online piano
• art along with sisters. He will not be left out!
• Montessori works in his workboxes

Looking at it all laid out, it looks like so much!

When I went through all of Liz’s papers to organize, I realized how much we did last year. But they get bored if they’re not challenged. And they like to do schoolish activities 7 days a week! It’s exhausting for me and sometimes I have to tell them to just go play or color. Tori will do Kumon math workbooks for fun and Kate reads voraciously!