Curriculum:
12 year old son
This year I again (sadly) only have one student-my son and I are heading back to our roots this year with doing our own thing (verses using a pre-planned curriculum like we used last year). I am excited about that because even though we learned and expanded our knowledge using the other style, it just left us without much 'us'. I don't know even how to describe that really, but we kinda like doing our own thing on our time schedule. It is how I began homeschooling way back in the early 90s and I missed it. We missed using our workboxes too. Probably me more than him tho. I saw how he began to wander and 'escape' the second I left the room b/cuz he didn't have those boxes filled with his activities and he needed to wait on me for much of the lessons so-as you can imagine [an active boy] took any chance he could to go MIA as long as possible. Workboxes equal order around here and even tho they can be a pain to fill day after day-it is worth it in the long run....but that is another post...
I copied/pasted the post I did recently on what we have planned so far. I still don't know about the math or the Bible or the artist/musician studies. I am hoping to have that figured out by next week so I can order those and be ready to roll after Labor Day when we start.
Here is what we're gonna do this
coming 2013-14 school year:
*Beautiful Feet: California History and Westward Expansion
Beautiful Feet Website
*Beautiful Feet: Geography study using Hollings C. Hollings books.
image from Scholar Pub. site
*Phonics Road to Spelling and Reading Level 2.
This is a continuation to the first level that has been working for him. I am holding off starting the Little House study til September. With his dyslexia we are a bit behind but this year we're gonna power our way to his reading more smoothly and efficiently and get him caught up to where he needs to be. :)
image from Common Sense website
*LLATL Purple level.
*Math-Still TBD
*Artist/Musician study: TBD
*Nature Study: TBD
*Bible: TBD still working on this
And of course we'll get back to our workboxing to pull this all off! Which means I need to get a general plan on what I want to put in those for each month (extra stuff like seasonal lapbooking/notebooking, projects, etc.).
*I also need to sit down and tweak the history out b/cuz the Cal. History and the Westward Expansion co-exist and even tho there is a little ditty on how to combine those-it is not detailed enough for me...so I need to sketch out something so I can stay on target and add a few extra things (like more study on the railroads per his request and such)...and whatever else that needs to be done. I simply haven't had any time to truly do this...so it is my goal here to get this all figured out so I can get the last minute things ordered, do some pre-work to have it ready to go and so forth.
And that folks is where I am at right now. Frankly, it is the beginning of August and I am still on vacation (from my problems....or in this case-homeschooling) LOL I will get serious soon enough.
You can read the whole post I wrote on the Heart of Dakota and this year's choices here. See you next week!
3 comments:
sounds like your getting it all put together nicely.. We'll also be working through Zoology 1 and 2 w/ notebooking :) Great minds think alike.. wink wink :)
Yep it's that time of year again. I've been printing like crazy the past week that I'm scared I'll get a paper cut. LOL I still haven't figured out our Math yet but it will come to me soon. I hear ya on the workboxes. My 13 year old still uses them. He'll be wondering around or trying to watch T.V. if I don't have stuff right there ready for him to do. Hope you have a blessed school year!
It IS that time of year again! And I am also getting back to the tried-and-true in our homeschooling, returning to the schooling style I used way back when my oldest ones were beginning.
I'm a huge fan of Beautiful Feet and LLATL.
Have a wonderful year and enjoy that boy of yours!
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