The school year is well under way. Only one scholar left to teach....Tomorrow I will post the schedule we are using. It seems to be working fine. I'm always second guessing myself am I planning too much or too little? It's easy for me to go overboard but this plan seems workable. It's a barely recognizable Year 6/grade 7 from AmblesideOnline
ENGLISH:
Poetry: Robert Frost, Carl Sandburg
Reading: selections from free reading list
Literature: Pride & Prejudice; Sense & Sensibility; The Hobbit; Animal Farm
Copybook & Penmanship: daily
Oral & Written Narrations: daily
Grammar & Spelling: Learning Language Arts Through Literature- green book, Common Sense Press, 1992
MATH:
Saxon Math 76; Saxon Publishers, Inc., 1992
Money Matters for Teens (11 – 14) by Larry Burkett
SCIENCE:
Exploring Creation with Zoology 1; Apologia Educational Ministries, Inc. 2005
Signs & Seasons: Understanding the Elements of Classical Astronomy; Fourth Day Press, 2007
Biographies:
Ordinary Genius- by Stephanie McPherson;
Archimedes & the Door Of Science – by Jeanne Bendick;
Galileo & the Magic Numbers
Nature Study- weekly nature walks and notebook entries
SOCIAL STUDIES: The Modern Age: 20th Century-
The Story of the World volume 4 by Susan Wise Bauer;
TruthQuest History: Age of Revolution IV (America and Europe, 1865-2000)
History Tales & Biographies-
Trial & Triumph by Richard M. Hannula
A Passion for the Impossible by Miriam Huffman Rockness
Genesis: Finding Our Roots by Ruth Beechick
Never Give In: Winston Churchill by Stephen Mansfield
Geography-
Explore the Holy Land by Ann Voskamp
LIFE SKILLS & TECHNOLOGY:
Home Comforts: The Art & Science of Keeping House By Cheryl Mendelson
Regular computer usage. videography
HEALTH:
I Am Joe’s Body by J.D.Ratcliff
MUSIC:
Composer study: Handel, Ives, Stravinsky, Marsalis
Folk songs, hymns
VISUAL ARTS:
Artist study: Leonardo Da Vinci; Rembrandt van Rijn; Jan Van Eyck
jewelry, clay, weaving, origami and other paper art
PHYSICAL EDUCATION:
swimming, bike riding, outside play, and other seasonal activities
LIBRARY SKILLS: regular use for pleasure & study
OTHER:
Foreign Language: Rosetta Stone- French
Bible: How To Be Your Own Selfish Pig by Susan Schaeffer Macauley
Beautiful Girlhood by Mabel Hale
More Than a Carpenter by Josh McDowell
The Holy Bible: Genesis 1-11; Exodus 20; John; Romans; 1Corinthians 15; and Revelation 21-22
Memory Work: Genesis 1 – 2:3; Exodus 20:1-17; John 1: 1-5; Romans 12; 1Corinthians 15: 33, 51-57; Revelation 21: 3-4, 22-27
