Currently Reading *Anyone Can Homeschool* by Nicki Truesdell

 I've never read the books written by Nicki Truesdell, but after listening to her podcast, "The Nicki Truesdell Podcast," I decided to read Anyone Can Homeschool.  It's available on Kindle Unlimited, to which I have a subscription.  Her other book, Home Sweet Homeschool: Gentle Moments of Encouragement for Christian Homeschooling Mothers is also available on Kindle Unlimited and is my next planned read.

Here's a link to her book: https://nickitruesdell.com/anyone-can-homeschool-the-book/

Here's a link to her podcast: https://nickitruesdell.com/podcast/

So far, I am enjoying her book Anyone Can Homeschool.  It's a good introduction to home education for new homeschoolers.

Second Day of School 5/27

 Another great start to our school year.  He loved everything!

Book Basket

Archimedes and the Door of Science

A Light in the Attic

Bible

My First Hymnal

The Action Bible

The Action Bible Devotional

Language Arts

Cursive practice

All About Spelling 3

Queen's Language Lessons for the Elementary Child vol 1

Geography

Around the World Coloring Book

Geography from A to Z

We made landforms out of play dough

Music

Story of the Orchestra (Vivaldi and Bach)

We started Ukulele

First Day of 5th Grade! 5/26

Today was our first day of school after taking two months off.  5th grade, Logic Stage and all new subjects.  

He did great and told me how much he liked it.  He said his favorite subject today was Latin, followed by Math.

I timed it to get an idea of how long his school day will take with just him and it was three hours.  We took a "recess" after every two subjects.  

Here's what we did for school.

Book Basket

• Sarah Witcher's Story 
• A Light in the Attic

Math

• We played Sleeping Queens
• We did math fact practice
• Life of Fred Farming

Language Arts

• Handwriting without Tears Cursive Success
• All About Spelling 3
• Queen's Language Lessons for the Elementary Child vol 1

Ancient History

• The Story of Civilization volume 1
• History Pockets - Ancient Egypt
• Egyptian Gods and Goddesses

Logic

• Cat Crimes (board game)
• Red Herring Mysteries vol 1

Latin

• Prima Latina lesson 1

Finalizing 5th Grade Plans/Preparing to Start

 Although our plans are generally the same, we've made a couple of small changes as we looked at samples, talked over what we want to do, etc.  I still haven't solidified a weekly schedule for ourselves.  I might just throw everything into a book basket and fly by the seat of our pants without a schedule.

We start the second week of June (after Vacation Bible School).

Here's what we have:

BIBLE

My First Hymnal (Concordia Publishing House)

The Action Bible

The Action Bible Devotional

MATH

Continue Life of Fred series

Math games

LANGUAGE ARTS

Language Lessons for the Elementary Child volume 1

All About Spelling 3, hopefully 4 also

Handwriting without Tears Cursive Success

LITERATURE

Choose as we go

Poetry

HISTORY (2 STREAMS: WORLD AND AMERICAN)

The Story of Civilization volume 1 (Spine)

Famous Figures of Ancient Times

Choose books as we go

GEOGRAPHY

Geography from A to Z

Countries of the World Coloring Book

Paddle to the Sea

Seabird

LOGIC

Cat Crimes Game

Mindbenders volume 3

Red Herring Mysteries Book 1

PHYSICS

Real Science 4 Kids Physics (spine)

Max Axiom comics series

Mark Rober's Crunch Labs year 2

Other labs as we go

Archimedes and the Door of Science

The Librarian Who Measured the Earth

LATIN

Minimus: Starting Out in Latin

Learn some of the church prayers in Latin (Prima Latina)

ART

Arts: A Visual Encyclopedia

MUSIC

Story of the Orchestra

HANDICRAFTS

Choose as we go

We're FINISHED!!!: 3/20

Fourth Grade is in the books! 

The fourth grader has finished:

• spelling
• artist studies
• composer studies
• his readers
• Bible
• science
• handwriting without tears
• French

He went from an early 2nd grade reading level (he is severely dyslexic) last summer to a late 4th grade reading level (as of an informal reading assessment last week) in just one school year.

We are going to finish the rest of the read-alouds from Sonlight D over the break.  But, we are officially finished with fourth grade!!

Now, for a giant break.  We will pick back up again with full school sometime in June.  Now's the time to go to the zoo, take field trips, play outside, etc until June when it becomes unbearable hot and crowded everywhere (when the schools let out).

The 12th grader will officially graduate as soon as finals end for her college classes.  

We are going to the ZOO!!  

Homeschool Day 3/19

 4th Grader

Sonlight D (history, Bible and literature)

• Bill of Rights, Why It Matters to You
• The Skippack School

Sonlight Readers 3 + Language Arts

• We completely finished spelling!!  (All About Spelling 2)
• Cursive
• The Littles

Math

• Life of Fred Dogs

12th Grader/Early College Student

• Homework for her college classes

Homeschool Day 3/18: Finished two more subjects (Artist and Composer Studies)

 4th Grader

Sonlight D (history, Bible and literature)

• The Skippack School
• The Bill of Rights, Why it Matters to You

Sonlight Readers 3 + Language Arts

• The Littles
• All About Spelling 2
• Cursive

Math

• Life of Fred Dogs

Fine Arts

• We completely finished Ambleside Online's Composer and Artist Studies for the year
• Artist Study
• Delacroix's "The Lion Hunt"
• Delacroix's "Arab Horses Fighting in a Stable"

12th Grader/Early College Student

• Working on her homework for college classes

Homeschool Week 3/17: Almost Done!!

 We're almost finished with our school year and go down to a shortened schedule for April and May (we will only do Math and finish our Sonlight books).

4th Grader

Sonlight D (history, Bible and literature)

• The Skippack School (we are really enjoying this book)
• The Bill of Rights, Why It Matters to You

Sonlight Readers 3 + Language Arts

• Cursive
• All About Spelling 2
• The Littles

Math

• Life of Fred Dogs

Fine Arts

• Artist Study
• Delacroix's "Hamlet and Horatio in a Graveyard"
• Composer Study
• Chopin's "Opus 28"

12th Grader/Early College Student

• Mathusee Stewardship
• College Classes

Homeschool Day 3/13

We completely finished two subjects today!!!! 

4th Grader

Sonlight D (history, Bible and literature)

• The Apostles - we completely finished Bible as a subject
• The Bill of Rights, Why it Matters to You
• The Skippack School

Sonlight Readers 3 + Language Arts

• All About Spelling 2
• Cursive
• The Littles

Math

• Life of Fred Dogs

Abeka's 4th Grade Science - we completely finished SCIENCE!!

• National Geographic's "Solar System 101"
• National Geographic's "Exoplanets"

Fine Arts

• Just the Facts Book 2
• Alfred's Group Piano course Book 2

12th Grader/Early College Student

• College classes
• Mathusee Stewardship
• ASL Basics

Homeschool Day 3/12

 4th Grader

Sonlight D (history, Bible and literature)

• The Apostles
• The Bill of Rights, Why it Matters to You
• The Skippack School

Sonlight Readers 3 + Language Arts

• Cursive
• All About Spelling 2
• The Littles

Math

• Life of Fred Dogs
• We learned how to make a graph/chart with graph paper

Science

• The Sun
• Youtube video: "National Geographic: Sun 101"

12th Grader/Early College Classes

• Mathusee Stewardship
• ASL Basics
• College classes

Homeschool Day 3/11

 4th Grader

Sonlight D (history, Bible and literature)

• The Apostles
• The Bill of Rights and Why It Matters to You
• The Skippack School

Sonlight Readers 3 + Language Arts

• Cursive
• All About Spelling 2
• The Littles

Math

• Life of Fred Dogs

Abeka's 4th Grade Science

• Navigation and the Stars
• We worked on using a compass

Fine Arts

• Drawing with art markers

12th Grader/Early College Student

• College courses
• Mathusee Stewardship
• ASL Basics

Homeschool Day 3/10

 4th Grader

Sonlight D (history, Bible and literature)

• A Child's Introduction to Poetry
• The Apostles
• The Secret of the Sealed Room

Sonlight Readers 3 + Language Arts

• Handwriting without Tears Cursive
• All About Spelling 2
• The Littles

Math

• Life of Fred Dogs

Abeka's 4th Grade Science

• The Constellations

Fine Arts

• Piano practice

12th Grader/Early College Student

• College courses
• Mathusee Stewardship
• ASL Basics

Homeschool Day 3/6

 4th Grader

Sonlight D (history, Bible and literature)

• A Child's Introduction to Poetry
• The Apostles
• The Secret of the Sealed Room

Sonlight Readers 3 + Language Arts

• All About Spelling 2
• Cursive
• The Littles

Math

• Life of Fred Dogs

Abeka's 4th Grade Science

• How movement determines time
• We worked with a flashlight and globe to demonstrate seasons and days/nights

Fine Arts

• Composer Study
• Chopin's Etude in E Major
• Artist Study
• Delacroix's Entry of Crusaders

12th Grader/Early College Student

• Mathusee Stewardship
• ASL Basics
• College courses

Homeschool Day 3/5

 4th Grader

Sonlight D (history, Bible and literature)

• A Child's Introduction to Poetry
• The Apostles
• The Secret of the Sealed Room

Sonlight Readers 3 + Language Arts

• The Littles
• All About Spelling 2
• Cursive

Math

• Life of Fred Dogs

Abeka 4th Grade Science

• The Solar System
• He worked on some science homework for class

Fine Arts

• Piano practice

12th Grader/Early College Student

• Mathusee Stewardship
• ASL Basics
• College courses

Homeschool Day 3/4

 4th Grader

Sonlight D (history, Bible and literature)

• The Secret of the Sealed Room

Sonlight Readers 3 + Language Arts

• The Littles
• All About Spelling 2

Math

• Life of Fred Dogs

Abeka 4th Grade Science

• The Wonders of the Night Sky
• He worked on some science homework from his outsourced science class

12th Grader/Early College Student

• Mathusee Stewardship
• ASL Basics
• College courses

Homeschool Day 3/3

 4th Grader

Sonlight D (history, Bible and literature)

• The Secret of the Sealed Room - we're almost finished and it's getting to the good part!
• A Child's Introduction to Poetry
• The Apostles

Sonlight Readers 3 + Language Arts

• All About Spelling 2
• Handwriting without Tears Cursive
• We started The Littles

Math

• Life of Fred Dogs
• Addition with Math Dice

Abeka's 4th Grade Science

• Fossils in Rocks

Fine Arts

• Drawing with art markers

Extras

• Ballet class
• He worked for a long time on his health and anatomy homework from an outsourced class

12th Grader/Early College Student

• Mathusee Stewardship
• ASL Basics
• College courses

Homeschool Day 2/27

 4th Grader

Sonlight D (history, Bible and literature)

• A Child's Introduction to Poetry
• The Secret of the Sealed Room
• The Apostles

Sonlight Readers 3 + Language Arts

• He finished Tornado and picked out The Littles as his next book
• All About Spelling 2
• Cursive

Math

• Life of Fred Dogs

Science

• We plan to do Crunch Labs later this afternoon

Fine Arts

• Piano practice - can't believe how far he's come with piano
• Composer Study
• Chopin's Opus No 9
• Drawing with art markers

12th Grader/Early College Student

• Mathusee Stewardship
• ASL Basics
• College courses

Homeschool Day 2/26

 4th Grade

Sonlight D (history, Bible and literature)

• A Child's Introduction to Poetry
• The Apostles
• The Secret of the Sealed Room

Sonlight Readers 3 + Language Arts

• All About Spelling 2
• Tornado

Math

• Life of Fred Dogs

Abeka 4th Grade Science

• Metamorphic Rocks
• Rock Kit

French with Mr. Innes

• Review vocabulary words

Fine Arts

• Composer Study
• Delacroix's "Self Portrait"
• Piano practice

12th Grader/Early College Student

• Mathusee Stewardship
• ASL Basics
• Classes at the college

Homeschool Day 2/25

 4th Grader

Sonlight D (history, Bible and literature)

• A Child's Introduction to Poetry
• The Apostles
• Secret of the Sealed Room

Sonlight Readers 3 + Language Arts

• Cursive
• All About Spelling 2
• Tornado

Math

• Life of Fred Dogs

Abeka's 4th Grade Science

• 3 Types of Rocks
• We looked at sample of igneous and sedimentary rocks from the rock and mineral kit

12th Grader/Early College Student

• Classes at the college
• Mathusee Stewardship
• ASL Basics

Homeschool Day 2/24

 4th Grader

Sonlight D (history, Bible and literature)

• A Child's Introduction to Poetry
• The Apostles
• The Secret of the Sealed Room

Sonlight Readers 3 + LA

• Cursive
• All About Spelling 2
• Tornado

Math

• Life of Fred Dogs

Abeka's 4th Grade Science

• Properties of Rocks
• LAB: Test a rock for fracture - we used broken geodes for this lab
• I took out the rocks and minerals kit and we spent some time with this.  This is a great kit I bought from Home Science Tools a long time ago.  We also looked at a geode under the microscope

French with Mr. Innes

• Names of drinks

12th Grader/Early College Student

• Mathusee Stewardship
• ASL Basics
• College courses