It's about time for me to do a progress report on where we are and where it looks like we'll end up by May 1. I like to have the bulk of our work finished by that date since the weather is lovely. As often, I'm contemplating breaking for much of April and doing that work starting in July, but let's face it, it's unlikely. When the kids were younger I could do that easier, but now people like to swim at the pool when it's hot. I'm really trying to get a year-round perspective on learning, especially with math and reading, so summer will not be such a brain drain.

So, where are we right now with our curriculum? I'll figure out where we'll end up in spring if we keep this pace later on, so this is a necessary part of my fall.... 

We're going back over Bob Jones' catechism this year, adding the Scripture references. The girls have notebooks for this, but Forest is just listening and reciting. This is in addition to a worldview catechism they do orally. We're only on number 3 for BJ but we're farther with the worldview one, number 21.

Victor Journey Through the Bible-The Plagues, page 58-59/401 pages-why the author didn't number the subject matter is beyond me and extremely annoying since each subject is not 2 pages...some are only 1...basically, I have no idea when we'll finish this book because I'm not about to count all the topics. While this book has given tons of overlap with MOH and the Veritas Timeline cards we've memorized, sometimes it is too repetitive and not as well written as I'd prefer. It is rare for me to negatively critique something that I do recommend, but if they'd said Moses married Zipporah one more time, we were going to have a problem.

Mystery of History-Lesson 16/108, love this resource

Rose will start her new Saxon math on Oct 26th. She's on track with CC for memory work, IEW, EEL (Eng Grammar/Writing), and Latin. I'm forever grateful for the consistency and accountability external groups like CC and online Latin provide. She is reading off a list of classics compiled by Daddy, and is reading A Beka's readers and CLP's, moving right along with those. Her handwriting is improving steadily, cursive and manuscript, and she is learning to type. Violin and piano are going well. Editor in Chief is ok for Eng grammar help but I want Daily Grams and we need more Daily Word Problems. Science Detective is pretty good, not great.

Willow is on lesson 76/170 in A Beka math. She has 8 lessons remaining in her current Rod & Staff Bible Nurture Series book (level 1 units 2,3), and has 29 more stories in Bob Jones' 1-1 reading book. She is learning cursive and still working on manuscript. She's almost through with her AWANA book for the year. We periodically do Mind Benders and Spider Riddles for thinking skills. We need to be sure and do the word problems A Beka provides.

Forest has finished 2 of his skill workbooks and is going along well in his K-1 math readiness book. He loves to sit and do bookwork, probably because it's what he's grown up watching. He is enjoying CC and has memorized quite a bit.

We are all spending a lot less time on CC this year, mainly because everything else is taking so much time, but I think we're doing alright. I have felt inadequate with the geography all year and find that frustrating.