We have our plan in hand for next year, which we will start after our break this week—since we're planning to school from January to November. I'm in the process of ordering books and finding them along the way from my list that I keep on me at all times (Half-Priced Books—also sent straight from God!) We've selected our math program (Math-U-See) which, we were assured, will get us through high school and is supposed to produce good results in the SATs and ACTs.
I've planned a light schedule for the summer. We're enjoying our read-alouds together. We'll continue working on math. And Madison will start her first grade readers and do some concentrated work on her handwriting (as soon as the books come in).
Here is a layout of our full schedule that we'll start in the fall:
Madison
Language Arts:
- Handwriting Without Tears by Jan Olsen
- Independent Reading with Pathway Readers
- Various read-alouds with narrations(I'll list these in another post for those that are interested)
- Copywork
- Dictation
Math-U-See
Nature Study/Science
- Handbook of Nature Study by Anna Botsford Comstock
- The Burgess Bird Book for Children by Thornton Burgess
- Nature journaling
History/Geography
- Paddle to the Sea by Holing C. Holing
- An Island Story by H.E. Marshall
- Fifty Famous Stories Retold by James Baldwin
- Viking Tales by Jennie Hall
- Benjamin Franklin by Ingri D’Aulaire
- George Washington by Ingri D’Aulaire
- Buffalo Bill by Ingri D’Aulaire
- Narrations will be required from these readings
Artist and Composer Study (a different artist/composer, or group, each term which Makenna and Madison will do together):
- Artists: Da Vinci, Rembrandt, Grunwalde, and Van Eyck
- Composers: Nicolai Rimsky-Korsakov, Alexander Borodin, Modest Mussorgsky, George Frideric Handel, Camille Saint-Saens and Hector Berlioz
Makenna
Language Arts:
- Various read-alouds and independent reading with narrations(I'll list these in another post for those that are interested)
- Copywork
- Dictation
Nature Study/Science
- Handbook of Nature Study by Anna Botsford Comstock
- The Burgess Animal Book for Children by Thornton Burgess
- Pagoo by Holling C. Holling
- Nature journaling
History/Geography
- Tree in the Trail by Holling C. Holling
- Seabird by Holling C. Holling
- Trial and Triumph by Richard Hannula
- A Child’s History of the World by Virgil Hillyer
- An Island Story by HE Marshall
- This Country of Ours by HE Marshall
- The Little Duke by Charlotte Yonge
- Joan of Arc by Diane Stanley
- Narrations will be required from these readings
- Book of Centuries
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