Sharing our year plans

This forum has been rather quiet, but i love reading it so I have a few minutes to share. We have been homeschooling for 7 years and currently have 3 of our 5 children in school. The 3 yr old loves to “do school” too though:) We are as eclectic, but incorporate many ideas from Charlotte Mason.

Together we are doing these

-Genesis through Dueteronomy and Ancient Greece for Bible and History

-on non Bible says we read Little Visits With God an older children’s devotion my mother in law have US

– laying down the rails

-visits to Asia with occasional add ins from operation world resources or a missionary biography

-Frederick Remmington art for children by Raboff

-Emily Dickinsons poems from SCM

-singing the great hymns SCM

-Bible verse cards from SCM

-I have grand plans to add in Speaking Spanish with miss Mason and Elementary Geography but I’m not sure about time

My oldest is 11 he is a very responsible boy, but does not love school. He would rather be doing farm or yard work.

He is using RightStart level G. It is going well. This math is a great fit for him. He has mostly used it all the way through. He is using All About Spelling. This is the only spelling program that seems to help him spell at all. He is reading several landmark books and book about the pony express by Ralph Moody for American History about 2 or 3 days a week. I require no output from these at all. Partly because I don’t have the time. His oral narration skills are good, his written one’s are struggling along. He uses Language Lessons for Today 6. He has mostly used these all the way through with a pause for Abeka language in 3rd. I am planning to add in written narration for Joshua through Dueteronomy and Greece for him and his sister in 4th as well. He tried Jack’s Insects and seriously hated the story element of it. He wanted more information about the insects. We switched to Apologia Flying Creatures with the journal and he is really liking it so far. He did the new grade 4-6 days of creation science course from SCM last year and did very well with it. He reads literature books I hand him. I may give him an old Abeka Anthology to round out the year too. He is currently reading Gone Away Lake for literature and loving it. No output here either. He is reading the Young Citizens Reader 1x a week as well. Supposedly this has an oral narration. Some days this happens. He adds to his book of centuries 1x a week, does Art with Feed my Sheep about 1x a week, piano lessons, some “school time” with a younger sibling each day. I am planning to add in Hey Andrew Greek and Classical Composition from Memoria press and have not found the time yet.

We do nature study drawing when I can, but have made attention to nature a family culture. We currently have 2 hummingbirds using our feeder on their way South. At least we assume they are passing through. We hope the come back next year. We also have a monarch chrysalis that we hope makes it. It got so chilly here this week. We had a Sphinx moth caterpiller earlier in the summer. Did you know they dig in the dirt to make their cocoon? They take like 2 weeks to emerge as well. My younger son loves insects and amphibians and reptiles….he is forever showig us a cicada shedding its skin or a praying mantis or a cool different tree frog or something else. They take like 2 weeks to emerge as well We have a garden and are currently canning tomatoes. I found a good ketchup recipe.

I will come back later and tell about 1st and 4th grades here. Blessings all!