Its that time again! Mid-year I enjoy evaluating our curriculum and making a plan for the coming year. When spring arrives, I’m ready to shelve the books and get outside, so January is a good time to make my plans for the next year. I’ll start with a quick review of what we’ve been doing and post again soon with my plans for the next year. Here is my blog post with what we’re currently using: Curriculum Fall 2018.
Lucy (8th grade) – Heart of Dakota has been going well for her. She’s learning some good skills that will prepare her for high school; the IEW writing course has been great. Apologia astronomy was a neat book – now I want to use other Apologia elementary books with the younger kids. Overall, Heart of Dakota is… a lot. A lot of history, a lot of extra work, a little too much that I want to tweak. I’ve pulled heavily from their recommendations for next year, but our direction has changed just a bit. We’ll complete this year and then move on to other things. Teaching Textbooks is still working well for math for both her and Julia.
Julia (6th grade) – Heart of Dakota ended up being a bit much for Julia and what she can handle this year. We’re in the middle of some health challenges with her and have needed to lighten her load. She is doing some basic things – math, copywork, reading, Spanish on the ipad, piano. As Lucy heads into high school, Julia will work more with Esther and Isaac on history, science, and a few other things. I love that with homeschooling we can adapt as we go and meet her where she is right now.
Esther and Isaac (3rd and 1st) are working through Around the World and loving it. The short units work wonderfully for us- we can pause when sick or needing a break for whatever reason and easily pick things up again without feeling behind. We never used the Evan Moor science that I purchased for them, we’ve had plenty to study in Around the World. The only other change is that Isaac has been copying down words from Zelda instead of using his handwriting curriculum book. Hey, he’s happy and we’re rolling with it! Math, phonics, spelling, everything else is right on level for both of them and working well. This is the first time we’ve used Cheerful Cursive and I really like it. Esther is doing well with cursive.
Next year starts high school and keeping a transcript for Lucy! I think I’ve got a good plan down and some exciting things lines up. I’ll post the full plan for everyone soon.
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