Monday will be our first official day back to school!  We choose to school from now until the first of May simply because I know from history that when "spring fever" kicks in, we check out!  We also take off from Thanksgiving to the beginning of January.  So today, I had an orientation meeting with my children to go over the plans for the year.  I simply have a basic outline and will let things fall into place as they may.  I also know from past history that I must not completely structure things to the exact, because we need flexibility to roll with other interests that arise.

Here is our daily subject outline:

Monday:

Bible

Nature Walk

Language Arts/Writing

Science

Math

History

Read-Aloud

Tuesday:

Bible

Nature Walk

Language Arts/Writing

Science

Math

History

Read-Aloud

Wednesday:

Bible

Nature Walk

Read-Aloud

Math

Music and Art

Thursday:

Bible

Nature Walk

Language Arts/Writing

Science

Math

History

Read-Aloud

Friday (until co-op starts on Sept. 5):

Bible

Nature Walk

Math (other)

Unit Study Extras

Also, I've been busy subject planning.  These are a list of things that we can choose from for the subjects we have each day.  Again, not that we are completely tied to these either.  About every 3-4 weeks we will have a unit study focus, these are based on my children's interests.  My plan is to each week try and incorporate in ideas from the unit into other subjects.

Bible:

Reading

Jonathan Park Adventure CDs

Research

Incorporation/Other Subjects

Nature Walks:

Focus Oriented

Outdoor Hour Challenges

Journal/Notebook Walk

Science:

Hands-On Experiments

Unit Focus

Nature Focus

Biography Reading - Men of Science, Men of God and Girls Who Looked Under Rocks

History:

Mystery of History - Finishing Up Vol. 1 and starting on 2

Unit Focus

Art:

Drawing With Children - Nature Journal Style

Nature's Paintbox - Seasonal Art

Artist/Picture Study

Music:

Composer Study

Music Appreciation

Unit Studies:

Forest Fires

Electricity/Severe Storms/

            Benjamin Franklin

Tree Study/Woodcrafts

Nature in Autumn

Thanksgiving

Cooking and Baking

Weather Forecasting/US Geography

Scrapbooking/Family Memories

Biomes/Ecosystems

State of Kentucky

Language Arts:

Hannah -          Intermediate Language Lessons

Alex -               Primary Language Lessons

Writing:

(method: paper/pencil, blogging, typing, newsletter)

Both –

Interest

The Write Stuff Adventures

Picture Prompts

Magazine Article Narration

Book Narration

Book Reviews

Letter Writing

Poetry

Sci. Experiment Journal

Nature Journal

Mathematics:

Hannah -  Teaching Textbooks 6

Alex –  Saxon 4 to start until Teaching

            Textbooks 4 is ready in Dec.

Both –

Logic Puzzles

Games

Kitchen

Life

Read-Aloud:

Aug – The Secret Garden, by Francis Hodgson Burnett

Sept – Island of the Blue Dolphins, Scott O'Dell

Oct – George Washington Carver, Eva Moore and Alexander Anderson

Nov – Thanksgiving Focus

Dec – One Wintry Night, by Ruth Bell Graham

Jan – Anne of Green Gables, L.M. Montgomery

Feb – Aesop’s Fables

Mar – Treasure Island, Robert Louis Stevenson

Apr – The Burgess Bird Book, Thorton W. Burgess

"In his heart a man plans his course, but the LORD determines his steps." - Proverbs 16:9