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Silver Moon Learning
Aug. 27, 2009
Justice's school plans for the year.
Here's what the big guy's load looks like:
Grammar: Rod and Staff English, daily. This has some composition writing included
Spelling: Rod and Staff again, daily. If he aces the practice test on day three then we skip days four and five.
Writing: Classical Writing series, daily I expect him to be through Homer B by the end of the school year. The R&S writing is good stuff, I'm not knocking it. I just value the progymnasmata method more. I make sure a big writing assignment from both won't hit on the same day. In addition to this he makes a two point outline from something he's read in science or history, or an encyclopedia page on one of those topics, once a week.
Reading: lots and lots of real books, daily, and then some
Logic: The high school level Mind Benders (nearly done), then he'll move into the Red Herring Mysteries. About three times a week.
Vocabulary: English From the Roots Up, three words a week right now. When he finishes he wants to go to straight Latin and drop the root study.
Memory work: Daily. He prefers poetry, but stuff like the presidents of the Unite States wiggles in on occasion. Again, the boxes from SCM.
Math: Rod and Staff, daily. Will be ordering Life of Fred as soon as the budget can swing it.
History: Daily, every other week. Story of the World is his spine, once again. He'll mostly just use the sequence of events from it this time around, books from the library will be his main curriculum.
Science: Daily, every other week, opposite history. Animal biology again, mostly ocean creatures. We'll need a new one about halfway through, he's wanting deeper human body science.
Lots of Rod and Staff in there. I never expected to like a Mennonite company so much, but I really do. Those books are thorough, simple, complete. No bells and whistles, no gimmicks, and man do my kids learn well from them. I've seen absolutely zero theological problems with them and there's no preaching. The sentences the kids work with do come from science, history, or Bible stories.
Of course all of the stuff listed in these last few posts don't account for all the real life learning that comes up in every corner of our day, or the new children's museum exhibits, or from the librarian. Nor the skills they learn in scouting. |
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