well i have been praying about what to do next year and i have come up with some ideas.  here is what i have come up with.

we will continue using saxon math for the boys and maybe rod and staff for hannah.  not sure about rebekah.

we are going to use rod and staff for english for everyone. jamie will get the preschool series when he is ready.  i'm adding queen homeschooling language arts also for hannah becuz she learns  more by copying than the others do.

we will be reading  lots of christian biographies. we have started amy carmichael already. i'm using the sonlight booklist for ideas.

history and science are not  decided yet tho i am leaning towards a charlotte mason method, using abeka books as jumping off places.

well that's where we re at so far!

i supplement my book schooling with freebies i get from everywhere.

so far , of the ones i can remember lol, i have taught the kids all about recycling,  potatos, grapes, birds, planets,  the depression of the 30's,  beesand honeymaking,  the eyes, the ears, and more all using maps, charts, activity and color sheets and recipes all sent to me free of charge from various sources.  the internet is wonderful. so is the library, but i;m sure you know that!

well, this is what i have done so far.

we started out with art. we made clay snowmen, flowers, and birds. i read poems from  "a child's garden of verses" while they sculpted.

 then parker  read thru some science in a new book, "what every second grader needs to know", and narrated the info back to me.    it is the same info that he has been reading in his rod  and staff science but i wanted for him to really get it.    he seems to like this book better!

park has worked in his abeka handwriting also. then he did a word search puzzle. more language arts to come this afternoon.

hannah, rebekah and parker  all worked on geography together. we used a book  called "children of the world" and studied  what children in other countries eat, do for school, and like to play with, among other things.  then we located their countries of origin on our big map. :)

parker did some reading in his freetime book, which has a history theme to it. it's about indians  and how they  did things.

devotions centered on Jesus and "suffering not the little children"

lunch was spaghetti.

math and more , all to come.

as promised math did come around. dad worked with the boys in both their books so i didn't have to! ~smile~

ben did his english too. he likes this book a lot, just like i do!

i'll intro you to my children so you know who i am talking about.

ben is 15, parker is 7, hannah is 6, rebekah is 4 and jamison is 2.  i also have a hs graduate- sarah who is 21 now.  all my kids are all over the place gradewise so i can't  begin to tell you what grade they are each in.  parker reads at a 4th grade level - 2 years ahead- and is doing 54 grade saxon math.   hannah is doing some 1st and 2nd grade work and  rebekah is doing some kindergarten and 1 st grade work.

right now we are at a standstill with school!       i am so tired of what we usually do yet i can't seem to get it together to do anything else!  we just moved here to texas a few months ago and i got pg also immediately so i have had a lot on my plate!    what i need is some money to buy what i feel would simplify my life but that ain't happening.  lol     i would love to get all lifepacs in every subject for each child and just turn the page each day. :)

instead what we are doing  is we are all reading thru abeka's history each day and parker is using rod and staff's science while the girls are using abeka's science.

as i said parker is doing saxon 54 math, with some abeka thrown in  and hannah is using miquon math and  scott forman/addison wesley math.  rebekah is using walmart workbooks.

ben is using saxon and lifepacs math. for language arts he is using wordly wise (i do love this)and rod and staff. he is on his own for history and science.  i just turn him loose in the library. ~smile~

we all use spelling power.

BUT i feel so at loose ends! so out of control! maybe it's the pregnancy but i seem like i don't have it all under control.

that's why i am blogging our school days- trying to make sense of it all. any comments or ideas are welcome!   :)