Well here it is the unofficial but yet seemingly end of summer. I'm sure not ready for it to end! Summer has always been a favorite season for me and even though it's beautiful in the fall I hate to see the carefree days go.
We have had a full summer filled with camp, swimming, the beach, campfires, vacations, amusement parks, the fair, the zoo, picnics, gardening and other things I'm sure I can't remember. So now come the things of fall like crisp air, colorful leaves, maybe some campfires still, hot cocoa, football and foremost in my mind today SCHOOL.
Can it really be back to school already? Well ready or not it's tomorrow at our house. We've spent the day both relaxing by the pool and cleaning up the school area to get ready for tomorrow. It's amazing how many things get put there over the summer!
Though I have had good intentions of getting this on here sooner here's what we're studying this year:
Logan (age 16): Physics (Apologia), Algebra II (Switched on Schoolhouse), Trigonometry (Life of Fred), History (Mystery of History III, All American I + II, Truthquest), Language Arts (Total Language Plus-Scarlet Pimpernel, Scarlet Letter and American Literature Short Stories), Economics (What ever Happened to Penny Candy), Debate and testing (SAT and CLEP's). He may also do some of the New Testament Survey from Grapevine and some Apologetics with our Truthquest history.
Taylor (age 14): Biology (Apologia), Algebra I (Switched on Schoolhouse), History (Mystery of History III, All American I + II, Truthquest), Language Arts (Total Language Plus-Treasure Island, Johnny Tremain and The Giver) and extra Writing (Wonder of Words), Economics (What ever Happened to Penny Candy), Debate and Bible-New Testament Survey (L5 Grapevine).
Ariel (age 11) : Science (Holy Cow experiment and various other things), History (Mystery of History III, All American I + II), Language Arts (Total Language Plus-Ben &Me, Incredible Journey and Amos Fortune Free Man) also for extra Writing (Wonder of Words and Learn to Write the Novel Way), Math-finishing fractions and on to Decimals and Percents (both Life of Fred), Economics (What ever Happened to Penny Candy) and Bible-New Testament (Grapevine L3).
Lexie (age 9): Science (Holy Cow experiment and various other things), History (Mystery of History III, All American I + II), Language Arts (Total Language Plus-Ben &Me, Whipping Boy and Sign of the Beaver), Math (Spectrum 4), Economics (What ever Happened to Penny Candy) and Bible-New Testament (Grapevine L3). We still need to decide on handwriting but we figure it can wait a month or so.
Maybe you're doing some of the same? Or maybe you want to check back throughout the year to see how they're going in case you want to use some of the same curriculums next year. I'm sure I'll be blogging and sharing our experiences with many of them.
Hope your ready for your year too! Ready or not here it comes!
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