The Hopeful Homestead

Homeschool Plans...

Today Al & I sat down & hashed out our homeschool plans for the next year, and I got my curriculum ordered from Rainbow Resource.  PHEW!!!  Here's what we've got...

Jo- 1st Grade, Meg- 2nd grade, Erin- 3rd grade

MATH: Saxon Math 1, 2, 3

GRAMMAR & WRITING: Write Source Gr. 1, 2, 3, Writing Strands 3

SPELLING: Spelling Power- Level A, B, D

HISTORY: Story of the World, Part 1, The Prairie Primer

SCIENCE: Earth Science & Astronomy

ART: The Handbook of Nature Study, Drawing With Children

READING: a selection of classics, non-fiction, & biographies to work with our history & science studies

We all worked out a schedule, and the girls each have a new weekly planner sheet to make them more personally accountable for their work and time.  HOPEFULLY this will make things flow more smoothly.

Whew!!  At least it took me weeks instead of months to decide what we're doing this year!  LOL!!!

Peace~

Shari

Simply Saturday

Well.  12:30 and 2/3 of the girls are crying (over Polly Pocket, no less.) NAP TIME ANYONE???

I've spent the morning working on finding the best prices for our homeschool books for next year.  I can't believe it's time to think about this again already.  We've just about survived our first year of homeschooling.  YAY!!!!

Here's what I plan on using next year...

Math: Saxon (Gr. 1, 2, 3)

History: Story of the World Vol. II & Activity Guide (& I think we're doing Prairie Primer this year as well...)

Geography: Complete Book of Maps & Globes (something like that, WB we're all going to do together)

Science: Usborne 1st Encyc. of Our World & Space (Earth Science & the Universe this year)

Language Arts: Voyages in English (1,2,4)  Writing Strands 3, Spelling Power (A, B, D)

Art: Child Size Masterpeices & Drawing w/ Children

Music: Color the Classics, and maybe Piano Lessons (at least for Miss E)

If I feel really froggy I may start Latin w/ E, using Prima Latina...

I want to keep a timeline, using Book of Centuries, and We'll also be doing tons of reading, but I use individual books, not a text, so it would be silly to list them all here... There's other extras here and there also, but this is most of it.  WHEW!!!  I need a nap just reading the list... lol!

I plan on spending the rest of the day catching up on dishes, baking bread (finally) making sourdough starter (finally) and then, the ladies and I plan to paint.  (after naptime, of course) I'm working on the canvas for the laundry room, and they just love to paint, so it works out ok...  I think I'll go stroll to the mailbox while they're resting.  Have a great afternoon!

Peace~

Shari

Hooray for the little guys!!!!!!