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Homeschool Agenda for 2009/10

(Things with a line through it means we have already read it. If you read my plans from last year this is the updated and expanded post for this year.  We are continuing on and I am looking forward to all that the boys and "I" will be learning. )

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     It is that time again when lots of homeschool parents are sharing what they are doing for the coming school year.  So here are my plans.

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Bible

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~Leading Little Ones To God by.. Marian M. Schoolland

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~Betty Lukens ..Through The Bible in Felt

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~Christian Manhood by... Gary Maldaner

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Amongst all this I am trying to learn how to teach with Dianne Craft's, MA, CNHP  material of ....

" Teaching Your Right Brained Child" manuals and DVD's and also  Right Brained Phonics Program , A Reading Program for the "Struggling Reader. 

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( I didn't get much read like I had really hoped last year)

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History

( Most of my Canadian History was ordered from Donna Ward Northwood Press and Canadian Home Education Resourse aka CHER. )

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This year we are continuing to cement the boys in their Canadian History and Geography.  Me a young Canadian citizen myself ( 3 years and a bit) I really love diving into all this history and learning. 

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The teachers manuals that I will use and improvise off of are...

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~Courage & Conquest ~Discovering Canadian History by..Donna Ward

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~Canadian Natives Long Ago by ... Donna Ward

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~The Ultimate Lap Book Handbook by Tammy Duby and Cyndy Regeling.  (I REALLY want to apply this more this year)

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~ Talk a latte mp3's by Cindy Rushton on Lapbooking and Notebooking and Charlotte Mason Primer.

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I have picked a lot of different historical novels for example....

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(a trilagy)

~ A Circle Of Silver

~By The Standing Stone

~Under A Shooting Star

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~Jason's Gold by.. Will Hobbs

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~Flight by ..Connie Brummel Crook

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~The Kings Daughter by .. Suzanne Martel

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~The Broken Blade by.. William Durbin

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~Madeleleine Takes Command by ..Ethel C. Brill

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~Copper Sunrise by...Bryan Buchan

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~ Indian Captive by...Lois Lenski

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~With The Indians in the Rockies by... James Willard Schultz

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~Easy To Make Plains Indian Teepee Villiage

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~Plains Indian punch-out panorama

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~The War of 1812 Against the States by... Jennifer Crump

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Who Runs The Country Anyway ?...A Guide To Canadian Government  by...Joanne Stanbridge

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A Book For Mom to read:

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~Who Killed Canadian History Revised Ad.  by... Jack Granatstein

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Some Canadian history activity books:

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(Discovering Canada Series  by ..Robert Livesey & A.G. Smith)

~The Vikings

~The Fur Traders

~New France

~Native Peoples

~The Defenders

~The Railways

~The Loyal Refugees

~The Rebels

~Black Heritage

~The Great War

~The Mounties

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Here Are Some Other resourse books we will use...

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~Canada Votes by ..Linda Granfield

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~Our Canadian Governments by... Ruth Solski

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~My First History Of Canada by..Donalda Dickie and Rudiger Krause

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~The Story of Canada by..Janet Lunn & Christopher Moore

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~The BIG Book of Canada~ Exploring the Provinces and Territories by .. Christopher Moore

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~The Kids Book of Canada by Barbara Greenwood

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~The Kids Book of Canadian Prime Ministers by ..Pat Hancock

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~The Kids Book of Railway and how the CPR was built by ..Deborah Hodge

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~The Kids Book of Canadian History by ..Carlotta Hacker

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~ O Canada by ..Ted Harrison

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Here Are Some Awesome Historical DVD's we are using:

~Canada - A People's History  Set 1 , 2, 3, 4

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Also I will read from selected stories from ...

~Stories from across Canada by...Bernard L. McEvoy

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~Great Canadian Animal Stories compiled by...Muriel Whitaker

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 Our Science Plan:

~Nature Study Journals and...

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~for ds' 2, 3 and 4....finish  Exploring Creation with Zoology #1 and then we will ...start Geology Rocks and I will be picking out more books to learn about Geology.  I will have to do a update on what we are planning in the science department.   

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World View

1ds will finish reading and notebooking from ..

~Streams of Civilization Vol.2

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Art

~4th ds will use " I Can Do All Things" by..Barry Stebbing

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~2ds, 3ds will use "God and the History of Art" by Barry Stebbing

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Arts and Crafts

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~ As I feel inspired !!! [0=   For example...we want to start on some projects from Buckles and Bobbins...A Beginning Sewing Book For Boys by JoAnn Gognon and Corrie Gagnon.  We are thinking of making a fleece blanket, Bible Cover, and a book cover, PJ pants, and maybe more.

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~ They will be helping me make my candles too this fall.

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~Picture Study - Appreciating and learning history of famous artists and their paintings.

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~Music with the Masters ~ Music appreciation and learning about the famous composers

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~Learning piano basics and guitar basics too.  I will be ordering Jean Wells Worship Guitar Class for Kids and Volume #1 Worship Quitar Class book and DVD.

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P.E

~Curling in the fall and winter

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~ Swimming lessons in the Fall and Winter

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~The Ultimate Homeschool Physical Education Game Book

 ( Fun and Easy-To-Use Games & Activities To Help You Teach Your Children Fitness, Movement & Sports Skills)   by.. Guy Bailey 

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Math 

We use Math U See for all boys....

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1ds16 ~  Algebra 2

2ds14 ~ Zeta

3ds11 ~ Finish Delta and start Epsilon

4ds8 ~ finishing Beta and starting Gamma

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Language Arts

We will use doing some ....notebooking, lapbooking, copywork, dictation, spelling,and narration ( written and oral )

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This year the verse God gave me was...

"Have I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Do not be terrified; do not be discouraged, for the LORD your God will be with you wherever you go."
Joshua 1:9

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....but at the same token I feel I'm suppose to hold onto last years verse too.

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" This is what the Lord says: "Stand at the crossroads and look: ask for the ancient paths, ask where the good way is, and walk in it, and you will find rest for your souls."

 Jeremiah 6:16

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...The second verse has encouraged me to get back to my Charlotte Mason roots to teach what I should and stop trying to do too many things that can be done in a few. 

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 For example... copywork and narration covers ALL kinds of grammer skills and we can encorperate our intrests and focused subjects while we do it.

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"If mothers could learn to do for themselves what they do for their children when these are overdone, we should have happier households. Let the mother go out to play! If she would have the courage to let everything go when life becomes too tense, and just take a day, or half a day, out in the fields, or with a favourite book, or in a picture gallery looking long and well at just two or three pictures, or in bed, without the children, life would go on far more happily for both children and parents. The mother would then be able to hold herself in "wise passiveness’ and would not fret her children by continual interference even of hand or eye - she would let them be." ...Charlotte Mason

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