Plans for next Fall?

Yes. I’ll share as I can.

DS13 – grade 8 – this one needs some more outside accountability and I need to be mom and not mom/teacher for at least a year. The bulk of his classes will be online and directed by others. I’ll simply play a supporting role.

Literature, World History, High School Writing Prep via ClassesByBethPlus (CM friendly online classes)

Lial’s Pre-Algebra via Myhomeschoolmathclass.com with Jann Perkins

Bible via Armor of God classes with Chris Smith (Life Applications and Apologetics in fall and Leadership and Life Skills Nehemiah in spring)

Rainbow Science (continuation) with me

Phonetic Zoo with me

ongoing book of centuries, current events calendar, commonplace book

artist, composer, poet, nature study, geography, pe via CM co-op

Two unknown electives via CM co-op

expanding his lawn care business to at least 3 families is a goal

DD16 – grade 11

She has most everything needed to graduate except one math and two English, but we have a full plan anyway.

English Composition 1101 and 1102  via dual enrollment at local college

Student Life Skills (1 semester) via dual enrollment at college

Unknown humanities (1 semester) via dual enrollment at local college

Algebra 2 with math u see

christian Psycology online class w/ Dr. Tim Rice (1 semester)

DIVE Chemistry (a continuation after living books chemistry fell flat and we made a switch in January)

Beautiful Feet Modern US and World History (done CM style and we may spread out over two years or focus on reading and very simple narrations dependent on overall course load)

Bible – Apologetics in fall and Revelation in winter with Chris Smith and Armor of God classes online

French 3 or just conversational French with friend who is a French native speaker. Over skype.

ongoing book of centuries, current events calendar, commonplace book

Personal Fitness Trainer – she is exploring options to get certified and will then intern at our gym.  She has taken up Krav Maga, Judo, Kickboxing, Jui Jitso (sp?), and Performance Fitness in recent months and loves it all.  Her future plans are either military/FBI or fitness training.

Mysteries and More (1 semester) via CM co-op (literature, film, legality etc of the whodunnits)

Hamilton (1 semester) via CM co-op focusing on the musical and culminating in a trip to see it

nature study, geography, artist, composer, poet study and pe at our CM co-op

BF Books Usage – I’ve used BF books for a while now and we don’t use all of the guide questions either. Some of them are good for discussion. We do like the overviews and book intros. that are in the new color guides and some of the assignments on occasion.

@SandraK – I planned out a HS Living Books Chemistry for dd for 10th. It started well, she was enjoying the books, but it felt too disjointed for her to be reading from so many different sources. She also didn’t like doing the experiments every week. This would have been a requirement for her except she had already completed a two day chemistry lab intensive where she did a full year of labs. Per her request, we found something else. She is using DIVE with the online text (links to articles and such), watching the DIVE experiments, and doing the lab book. It is going much more smoothly for her and she likes it a lot more. She did enjoy several of the titles from the living books list we started with and may finish them on her own.

It’s always fun to talk about plans for next year!

We are currently trying out a few weeks of a more CM plan for high school to see how it goes.

We are sampling the Sabbath Mood science guides and really enjoying them. Next we are going to do a sample week of Wile’s new chemistry course and then I will let my daughter choose although I much prefer the SM guides myself.

We have begun using James Stobaugh’s history books as our history spines and it is really going well. We are doing 3 streams of history-British, American, and World history. The Stobaugh readings are short and leave plenty of time for my daughter to read from living history books each day. I plan on continuing this for the next two years if it continues to go well for us.

We will definitely be continuing with Math U See. After recently listening to a Delectable Education podcast on CM high school math, we have decided to try doing 3 streams of math-Algebra, Geometry, and Consumer Math. I think we are going to try starting with Patty Paper Geometry in a couple of weeks and then move into Math U See Geometry next year. For Consumer Math, I have a Dave Ramsey course and some resources from Larry Burkett as well.

For literature, we will continue reading and discussing classics, as well as covering one Shakespeare play each year and some poetry. We are doing a Movies as Literature course with some friends once a month just for fun. I’m hoping to continue that into next year also. If my daughter continues to like the more CM approach we’ve been taking to composition, we will simply stick with written narrations. Otherwise, we will go back to using The Power In Your Hands for composition.

For Bible, we will continue reading, studying, and discussing one chapter each day. My daughter will also continue reading through a list of theology books that I have chosen for her at the pace of 15 minutes per day.

She will continue her Japanese studies using the Irasshai program for foreign language.

I think that covers everything! Thanks for starting this thread Tristan. It’s always nice to see what everyone is doing. 🙂

Missceegee, thank you for the response.

Hey everyone… I’m back!

Still trying to figure things out… but here is what I’m thinking.

Delta (ds will be 14) – grade 9 (dyslexia).  

• Math – Saxon
• English – Good and Beautiful, All About Spelling
• History – possibly a home-made course…  World History – Wars pre-modern
• Science – Apologia Physical Science
• Phys/Ed Health – various things including First Aid
• Option 1 – Church Seminary
• Option 2 – Astronomy – Signs and Seasons
• Option 3 – Drafting  (from my Province)

For the girls…

Echo (dd11) – grade 6/7 (dyslexia).  

Foxtrot (dd9) – grade 4.  

Golf (dd 7) – grade 2.

• Math – Saxon (Golf will be RightStart still)
• English – Good and Beautiful, AAS, Peterson Handwriting
• History – Looking at the SCM options…  Will need to figure out time period as they are each at a different point right now…
• Science – Possibly Dr. Wile’s Science in the Beginning.  Also deciding if Echo is ready for General Science or not.
• Phys/Ed Health – mostly Swim Lessons
• Other – trying to get music going…