So...What am I using for school this year?

I am generally pretty low tech in most areas of my life.  I prefer to use a legal pad and ballpoint pen for my school planning.  Initially I figure out the weeks we will be having school (36 weeks/180 days required by GA law) and plan them out on a calendar.  This way I can consider when breaks will be so that we don't get in the middle of a subject and then suddenly take a 2 week break.

I was going to do a legal pad per child, but decided that it would be wasteful and combined the two.  The Prince on the right, Princess on the left, and combined subjects in the middle.  I also leave the first couple of pages blank to write an end of the year summary also per our state law.  When the year is over I file away the legal pad to document our progress.

Each page of the legal pad is a week's work with assignments given for the day.  The items are then checked off when completed.  I also add extracurriculars and field trips... along with my work schedule as those days are shorter on the academics....

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I have included links for most of the items we are using.  I have just linked to what was easiest.  Many of these books are available free online thru various services as they are in the public domain in the US.  Check ambleside for links.  I do purchase mainly thru amazon, but I have also found good prices at Rainbow Resource and you can't beat used book prices either....

Just to brag.... I bought used versions of Saxon Algebra 1/2, 1, and 2 for a total of $28!

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Daily....

BOTH...  Devotions with Leading Little Ones to God and readings from the Bible

Poems

The Prince... Saxon Math 2

First Language Lessons by Jesse Wise

Teach Your Child to Read in 100 Easy Lessons

The Princess.... Rod and Staff Grammar 6 (3 lessons a week with a focus on writing the other days)

Saxon Math Algebra 1/2 (we are doing 3 lessons a week with 2 days for review)

Prima Latina 2

Logic with Mind Benders and A Case of Red Herrings

Spelling Power

Rod and Staff Bible program grade 5

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Both

Monday...Karate

Parables from Nature

Tuesday.. Nature Study

Trial and Triumph

Art (we use ArtPacs, they are cheap and straightforward, plus the kids enjoy them)

Wednesday... Zoology 1

Library

Thursday..Geography using Exploring the Earth

Friday... Zoology 1

Artpac

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The Prince

Monday.... Story of the World 1

50 Famous Stories Retold

Aesops fables

Tuesday...Story of the World project and map work

Blue Fairy Book

Wednesday... Aesop

Burgess Bird Book

Thursday... Just So Stories

Our Island Story

Friday.... Paddle to the Sea

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The Princess

Monday... This Country of Ours

Tuesday... Of Courage Undaunted 

Abraham Lincoln's World

The Story of King Arthur and His Knights

Wednesday...Abraham Lincoln's World

Bulfinch's Age of Fable

Plutarch's life of Dion

Thursday...Wild Animals I Have Known

Abraham Lincoln's World

Shakespeare play (Julius Caesar continued and Cymbeline)

Friday...Abraham Lincoln's World

Isaac Newton Bio