Updated Homeschool Plans

The month of May was:

• Prom
• High School Graduation
• Updating the high schoolers' transcripts
• Getting the 17 year-old ready to start the summer semester at the college
• End of year performances for everything - theater, gymnastics, ballet, etc
• Getting the oldest three registered for the fall semester at the college

I will "graduate" the last two kids into the next grade on June 1.  We usually have a pretend knighting ceremony with a sword in the living room.  As of June 1st, we have 3 college students, a 10th grader and a 2nd grader.  

I revised our curriculum plans a little.  The 14 year-old was not enjoying history, so we switched that.  The 7 year-old needs to beef up his language arts.

Here is our updated curriculum plans.  Some of these things are still the same as what we were doing before.  I'm starting them both back up on Monday.  Things should be more normal now that everything has ended.

7 year-old - 2nd Grade

Math

• Mathusee Alpha (continuing)

Reading

• Ordinary Parents' Guide to Teaching Reading (continuing)
• BOB Books, Easy Readers from the library

Language Arts

• All About Spelling 1 (it's time...I'm adding spelling)
• Handwriting without Tears
• Funschooling Journals

History, Bible, Literature

• Sonlight B: World History 1 (continuing)
• Hands-on History Box 

Science

• Books from the library, projects based on what I find/what looks interesting

Art

• Art projects based on what looks like fun

Physical Education

• Our once a week of playing sports together at the park

Outsourced Classes (at homeschool enrichment center)

• Intro to Theater
• Learning with Legos

14 year-old - 10th Grader (she turns 15 in the fall)

Math

• Mathusee Geometry (she started this on her own during our break)

History, Literature

• Bookshark J: History of Science (this was a spontaneous purchase, because she did not like what we were doing for history and there is a big overlap in the old Sonlight 230 and Literature J - they are basically the same books)

Grammar/Vocab

• Easy Grammar Ultimate 10th Grade Workbook (continuing)
• WordTeasers SAT Cards (continuing

Bible

• Daily reading through the Old Testament
• She fell in love with CS Lewis after reading Till We Have Faces and The Screwtape Letters, so we are going to continue with Mere Christianity

German

• German Demystified (continuing)
• We might add DuoLingo German

Science

• Still planning to spend two years alternating between Astronomy and Biology

Art

• Projects based on what looks like fun.  We just went to the art store and bought an acrylic paint set plus some practice canvases

Physical Education

• Our usual once a week of playing sports together at the park

Outsourced Classes (at a homeschool enrichment center)

• Beginning Ukelele 

I am adding an afternoon a week for her to spend with another homeschool friend, working on beginning electronics/engineering projects, but I don't have firm plans for that, yet.

Extras - Sports, etc for the Fall

They are continuing ballet, Cub Scouts (7 year-old) and Youth Group at church.  14 year-old will continue helping teach gymnastics on Tuesdays and the 7 year-old is continuing taking gymnastics.  He wants to add karate.  I'm trying to talk the 14 year-old into taking tennis.

High School Credits for 10th Grade

These are possibly what I'm assigning as credits for 10th grade.

1 credit Geometry

1 credit History of Science 

1 credit Classical Literature

1 credit Old Testament Studies (continued from last year)

1 credit German 2

1 credit Astronomy (finishing Junior year)

1 credit Biology w/ Lab (finishing Junior year)

0.5 credit Visual Arts or Studio Art

0.5 credit Beginning Ukulele

0.5 credit Physical Education 

Possibly 0.5 credit Technology or Engineering

8.5 - 9.0 credit hours