Sunday, August 1, 2010

Not Back to School Blog Hop 2010~Curriculum Week

It's time for the Not Back to School Blog Hop hosted by Heart of the Matter! This was a huge hit last year among homeschoolers and I've been looking forward to participating again. This first week the topic is curriculum! I think all homeschoolers love to talk about their curriculum and take a peek at what others are using as well.

I have three students.
Gavin, 7th grade
Ben, 4th grade
Luci, 1st grade


Bible
Gavin--Sonlight Core 7 Bible
Ben--Sonlight Core 3 Bible
Luci--Family Time Bible

History
This year I am combing all three of my kids into one 'family-style study' of American History. To do this I have pulled together resources from Sonlight's Cores 3 and 100.

Math
Gavin--Saxon 8/7 w/Pre-Algebra
Ben--Saxon 5/4
Luci--Abeka Arithmetic 1

Science
Gavin--Apologia General Science
Ben & Luci--Exploring Creation with Zoology

Language Arts
Gavin--Grammar & Composition (ABeka), IEW Student Writing Intensive B, Wordly Wise, and Spelling Power
Ben--Language A (ABeka), Wordly Wise, Spelling Power, IEW Student Writing Intensive (following along with Gavin), and A Reason for Handwriting D
Luci--All Abeka: Letters and Sounds 1, Language 1, and Spelling 1; A Reason for Handwriting A,

Readers
Gavin--Sonlight Core 7 Literature and Poetry
Ben--Sonlight Core 3 Readers and Poetry
Luci--Abeka Readers 1

Electives and Extras
Gavin--Rosetta Stone Spanish Level 1 (continuing from last year), blogging, piano lessons
Ben--Rosetta Stone Spanish Level 1 (continuing from last year), Typing, Artistic Pursuits, Karate Class
Luci--Artistic Pursuits, Karate Class
Written by April at 8:13 PM

14 comments:

  1. Sonlight 3 was one of our favorite years! I am interested in Artistic Pursuits, will have to look into it. Enjoy your year!

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  2. You have a great year planned! We will be doing history as a family as well, along with science, art and music. It's so great to be able to do that, isn't it?

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  4. A friend in my homeschool group has a very similar line up to yours. You're gonna have a fantastic year.

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  5. We use SL too-on and off between Beautiful Feet Books guides/programs. Saxon too-for the 4th and up (except now my Jr in HS doesn't like Saxon, so we are trying Life of Fred)-looks like a great line up here and have a great year!

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  6. WOW . . . we are doing a few of the same things. Thanks for sharing your school year with us all here in blog world. Wishing you a blessed one.

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  7. It looks like a great year! We're doing core 4 this year and we can't wait to start next week.

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  8. I loved reading about another mama that is using a Sonlight over a range of ages. We're doing World History with a mesh of Cores 6, 1, and 2 this year.

    Thank you for sharing on the blog hop.

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  9. Looks like a really fun year! What great pictures of your family with the curriculum, love it!

    Angela

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  10. :) I love how you pick and choose from SL! I do that, too. My 16yo is doing psychology this year so I picked out a poetry from the catalog that she hasn't done yet.

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  11. Awesome. Thanks for sharing. Oh I love that photo of all those books. Gives me goosebumps! I just LOVE books!!!

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  12. Hi from the blog walk, and the crew, too! It looks like you've planed a great year!

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  13. Yea! Another Sonlight mom. :) This will be our first year using SL, so it has been great to see so many other people on the blog hop using it. :) Good luck on your new year!

    Blessings,
    Hannah (#196)

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  14. Checking in from Heart of the Matter.
    We're doing a BACK TO SCHOOL CHECK-UP. Check it out!
    Looks like Gavin has his hands full!! I am super nervous about teaching my 1st graders how to read!
    Tiffany @ HGF

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