Curriculum 2017/18!
Another post strictly for those highly invested in homeschool. CURRICLUM! The magic bullet of homeschool guaranteed to quell bad attitudes, remedy skills that should have been mastered already, create eager learners, and make school FUN!
Even though I know better now, it's fun to live in the utopia created by homeschool curriculum marketing for a little while as I plan school every year. In reality I've found it depends almost entirely on your student as to whether a wonder-curriculum is going to go anything as promised. If your kid does not want to learn anything, if he/she is consumed by an incredibly narrow field of interest, or if work is not his/her forte, good luck.
I've already sung the praises of Saxon math in a previous post, so I won't spend time on that; suffice it to say that it's going swimmingly again this year. In fact we don't have anything brilliantly new and exciting this year, except for "Byline" writing, which I reviewed in my last post. However, because curriculum lists seem to be of un-ending interest to most homeschool mom's I thought I'd best post ours.
With four completely different personalities in my children, I can see why one curriculum works for one family and absolutely doesn't work for another. Whether something works or not has so much to do with student AND teacher, number of students, available time, what dad does... one size does NOT fit all! So looking at my curriculum choices will not necessarily do a single thing for anyone else. It may be a complete waste of time; or there may be a spark of an idea that will revolutionize and revitalize your year. Hope does spring eternal...
Grade 5'er
Saxon Math 6/5
Sonlight's old Language Arts 4-5
Rod & Staff Spelling 6
Rod & Staff English 5 (only the grammar portions)
Science and Art at outside classes
Various French materials
Sonlight Core 4/E (North American History Part 2) - loosely
Donna Ward's "Canadian Government"
Grade 2 Piano
Grade 7'er
Saxon Math Algebra 1/2
Lightning Lit 7
Fix It! Grammar 2 Robin Hood
Rod & Staff Spelling 7
Spanish and Science at outside classes
Donna Ward's "Canadian Government"
Sonlight Core 4/E (North American History Part 2) - loosely
Grade 4 Piano
Even though I know better now, it's fun to live in the utopia created by homeschool curriculum marketing for a little while as I plan school every year. In reality I've found it depends almost entirely on your student as to whether a wonder-curriculum is going to go anything as promised. If your kid does not want to learn anything, if he/she is consumed by an incredibly narrow field of interest, or if work is not his/her forte, good luck.
I've already sung the praises of Saxon math in a previous post, so I won't spend time on that; suffice it to say that it's going swimmingly again this year. In fact we don't have anything brilliantly new and exciting this year, except for "Byline" writing, which I reviewed in my last post. However, because curriculum lists seem to be of un-ending interest to most homeschool mom's I thought I'd best post ours.
With four completely different personalities in my children, I can see why one curriculum works for one family and absolutely doesn't work for another. Whether something works or not has so much to do with student AND teacher, number of students, available time, what dad does... one size does NOT fit all! So looking at my curriculum choices will not necessarily do a single thing for anyone else. It may be a complete waste of time; or there may be a spark of an idea that will revolutionize and revitalize your year. Hope does spring eternal...
Grade 5'er
Saxon Math 6/5
Sonlight's old Language Arts 4-5
Rod & Staff Spelling 6
Rod & Staff English 5 (only the grammar portions)
Science and Art at outside classes
Various French materials
Sonlight Core 4/E (North American History Part 2) - loosely
Donna Ward's "Canadian Government"
Grade 2 Piano
Grade 7'er
Saxon Math Algebra 1/2
Lightning Lit 7
Fix It! Grammar 2 Robin Hood
Rod & Staff Spelling 7
Spanish and Science at outside classes
Donna Ward's "Canadian Government"
Sonlight Core 4/E (North American History Part 2) - loosely
Grade 4 Piano
Grade 10'er
Saxon Algebra 1 and part of 2
Fix It! Grammar 5: Chanticleer
Sonlight Cores H/100 Literature choices and discussion
Byline Writing
Science 10 Online
French 9 Online
Cadets
Skating Instructor job
Grade 12'er
Private Christian School
Store Clerk job
So all this interspersed with lots of field trips and family activities, will hopeful result in a year that goes down in the books as "successful", "happy", "meaningful"... ?
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