Back to school

As Sept roles around, many kids are heading back to school, and so are we.  With Art's retirement planned for the Spring, we hope to be done with school by the beginning of April, so we are actually beginning Week 8.  

I thought I would share some of our plans for the year, since that is the question I answer the most.  Caitlin is beginning 6th grade and Connor is in the 2nd.  It is very hard to believe this is our 4th year of homeschooling.  We have done standardized testing at the end of the last 2 years, and Caitlin continues to test at the top of her grade level, so we debated on skipping from 5th to 7th grade, but instead we chose to add language and writing.  Here are the materials we are using for this year.

Catholic Heritage Curricula is our primary source for language, especially.  We also use The Well-Trained Mind for planning and reading lists.

Caitlin -- Grade 6

• Math: Saxon Math 7/6
• Reading Comprehension:  Stories of the Saints Vol II  from CHC & Grade 6 reading list WTM
• Logic:  Mind Benders 
• Spelling:  Phonetic Zoo from Excellence in Writing 
• Grammar, Usage, Mechanics:  Language of God Level E from CHC
• Composition: Student Writing Intensive from EIW 
• Religion:  Faith & Life 6 and God's Merciful Love (Old Testament study) from CHC
• Science: Chemistry, Biology & Physics using Real Science 4 Kids 
• History: finishing Story of the World 1 and start SOTW 2
• Latin: Latina Christiana I 
• Spanish: Rosetta Stone Latin American Spanish  
  

 Connor -- Grade 2

• Math: Modern Curriculum Press B  
  
• Phonics: K12 Phonics program (cont from the end of 1st Grade) 
• Grammar/Language: First Language Lessons   
• Handwriting: Handwriting Without Tears 
• Religion: Faith & Life 2 & 1st Communion Prep from CHC 
• Science: Real Science 4 Kids 
• History: finish SOTW 1, begin SOTW 2   

Our school day usually begins at 9 AM and continues until noon.   We break for lunch and weather permitting, go out for some playtime, then at 1 PM, we finish up, usually no later than 2:30.

I plan out 9 wks at a time, this is very helpful, because Caitlin knows exactly what she needs to do for the week, and can work through the week at her own pace.

We hope that everyone has a wonderful beginning to their school year!

  

Comments

[Stephanie]

Chelle,

I looked at the books you are using for school. I have taught Nikki and Chris out of the Well Trained Mind since the beginning. Funny how we still think alike.
Take care and lots of love.