Plans for New School Year

We ARE planning on going through the Summer this year. During the summer, we will continue with Math (Math U See), Write Your Roots, Galloping the Globe, Trail Guide to Bible Geography and Reading Hillyer's Child's Guide to Geography.

This next school year:
History for all Three: Truth Quest: Age of Revolution I (1600-1800)
Math for All Three: Math U See
Joshua first semester: Notgrass Government and second Semester Economics in a box
Joshua and Joseph are doing Rhetoric with writing
Joshua is doing an indepth study of Revelations (not his first and won't be his last! He loves Eschatology!!
Joshua and Joseph both are doing Apologia Biology and Luke is doing Biology using Biology 4 Kids and matching their experiments/labs with help from Home Training Tools (which I absolutely LOVE LOVE LOVE!). The oldest two are finishing Latin and will start Spanish in the fall. Joshua will of course, continue with his piano (he has come a LONG way since meeting our teacher). Of course we will be using GREAT literature from Ambleside Online, and also doing art and music study!

Whew! I think that is it....

2008-2009 School Year


We started our first day of School Today. We were tired from our weekend in SC for Noah's Birthday party and to visit family. Since the kids are not in conventional school, I try to take their pictures at the beginning of the school year. Here are the kids pictures for this year:

Joshua (9th grade):


Joseph (8th grade):


Luke (4th grade):

Our new School year is about to begin. We have all of our curriculum and I have lesson plans made. This week we are "tweaking our schedules and chores". I have to get this house cleaned first (which I let go while doing lesson plans). We are SO looking forward to this school year. Here is what we have planned:

Oldest DS (14)/Second DS (13):
Rosetta Stone Latin
Greenleaf OT History
Math U See Prealgebra
Renaissance and Reformation (TruthQuest)
Sketches from Church History
1st 1/2 of school year: Unit Study in Elections/Olympics and second 1/2 is Georgia State History
Real Science 4 Kids Chemistry
Bible Doctorine
Winston Grammar
Write Your Roots (They will be writing biographies of our family members to put into a book. We are excited about this, especially since we have 1 grandmother living).
Great Experiences in Editing (Grammar)

Youngest DS (9):
Greenleaf OT History
Math U See
Renaissance and Reformation (TruthQuest)
Sketches from Church History
1st 1/2 of school year: Unit Study in Elections/Olympics and second 1/2 is Georgia State History
Apologia Zoology 3
First language Lessons (Grammar)
Write Your Roots (They will be writing biographies of our family members to put into a book. We are excited about this, especially since we have 1 grandmother living).

What are you looking forward to this year? What are you doing different from last year? I look foward to hearing your responses.

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Activities around our house. Well we still have 3 girls. The smallest one is still struggling but alive. Lately she has spent her time in this:



What is it you might ask? Well it is an oxygen cage. With her trouble breathing and still having the bouts with pneumonia, we created this to help her breathe better. We just drilled one hole on one end for the oxygen tube and 4 little ones on the other end, so that she is not breathing pure oxygen. We also have a cool mist humidifier nearby her oxygen cage so that she doesn't get dried out, which can also be fatal.

A couple of weeks ago, our family had the opportunity to take advantage of a once a year Jewel. The Atlanta Symphony Orchestra has a free concert to introduce their music for the next year. We were able to go as a family and really really enjoy it. They played music by such great artists like Beethoven, Gershwin, Rachmaninoff
Tchaikovsky, and Mussorgsky.




Then, on Monday, we had the opportunity to take advantage of the Free Community day at the Fernbank Natural History Museum in Atlanta. It was our first time there and we were able to be joined by another family that we go to church with.







A couple of days ago, my dh came in and told me that our neighbors next door had Scofodine trees (same family as Muscadines) and we could pick all that we wanted. The kids tasted them, knowing that they were in the same family as the grapes. They were a little sour, but we decided to go and get some and make jelly with it. Problem was, all of the lower ones were gone. The ones left were WAAAYYY up in the trees. It was worth it though.






And...Today is a VERY special day in our home, but I will post more on that in a minute........

Have a good one.

This last year the three boys were going in three different directions with their subjects. It wore me down an this year that isn't going to happen. So it is time to condense. We all did agree we wanted to do the Middle Ages. So here is what we have SO FAR....

History/Literature: Truthquest History Middle Ages (for K-12)

Language Arts: IEW has put out NEW LA books by TIME PERIOD! I was thrilled with this and even more thrilled to see that they have one for Medieval history!! It covers writing, structure, grammar and vocabulary AND I can do it with ALL THREE BOYS! We are still reading the Christian McGuffey Readers (they have comprehension and spelling words in there too)

Science: Apologia General (for the 8yo, we will pattern his science after his older two. So when they hit fossils, so will he, etc)

Math: MUS Pre-Algebra for the older two, and still working through foundations with the little one. We will see where he is at after that. We also have these fabulous living math books that I spoke about in my previous post.

Latin: Still doing Latin's not so tough. The older two boys are also doing Vocabulary from the Classical Roots using both Greek and Latin roots.

Bible: Not sure yet but the oldest one is looking for one he can do independently. He is looking at a few to choose from.

Life Skills: The boys are working on two different businesses as Enteprenuers. They are reading LOTS of books on the subject and we are building those. I am also going to try to connect our oldest two with a master craftsman/woodworker that I know from our old church and do some sort of co-op. The only problem is that he is all the way across town, so I might look for someone closer.

If I Figure out more, I will post it here. We are still praying about some other things. But here is most of it.

Have a good one

This year, Mr. Athletic is studying Animals in Science (his choice) A few days ago, he had the joy (sarcasm) of dissecting a frog, which is what he had been studying. He learned a lot about the anatomy of a frog was able to see it first hand. LOH was wanting to see it too and brought, Traveller in to watch. LOH came upstairs to get a plastic model of a frog (anatomy) that we had gotten at the dollar store and he put that together while we did the dissection. Here are picts from that day.



He was a little skiddish, so first object was to make sure that the frog was REALLY dead, lol. BTW he wouldn't touch it but I did to prove to him it was dead



All three of the boys looking at the heart of a frog.



Ribbit! THE dissected Frog