Back to (Home) School 2013 – Curriculum

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Books, books, books! I love the smell of a new book (I do.) We already have many of our new books for the new year, even though we’re not quite ready for most of them yet. I hope to pick up a few more things at the Teach Them Diligently Marketplace in a couple of weeks. (Update!! Sadly, the Marketplace has been cancelled due to low pre-registrations. They do, however, have their Marketplace Online store up and running!)

As usual, we do most of our stuff together as a group. As Catie grows older, she needs to do more work independently and with increasing challenge so that’s a goal for this year.

2013-2014 Curriculum

Group Classes

{Catie, 13; Arielle, 10; Alexander, 7.}

To finish:

• Mystery of History 2 with the supplemental downloads
• The Young Peacemaker
• Apologia Zoology 3

And then:

• Mystery of History 3
• Who Is My Neighbor?
• Apologia Zoology 1
• WinterPromise – some pieces from the Dinosaur Days science unit study (We’re actually starting this now during summer school.)
• Homeschool Legacy Unit Studies for American History (We’re actually starting Westward Ho I now during summer school.)

And also:

• Maestro Classics
• SQUILT Music Lessons
• See the Light Art
• WonderMaps – new this year! Very excited about the integration with MOH!

Math:

• Catie – finish Teaching Textbooks Pre-Algebra & then Algebra–at this point I’m pretty sure we’re doing Life of Fred
• Arielle – 5th grade Horizons math
• Alexander – 2nd grade Horizons math

Language Arts:

Miscellaneous things at ability level: readers, copywork, notebooking, Scholastic and Spectrum workbooks, etc. I don’t really have anything I “love” like I love our other subject materials..

Other:

• Catie – Finish Apologia Apologia General Science and begin Apologia Physical Science
• Catie – The Land of Fair Play: American Civics from a Christian Perspective, Christian Liberty Press
• Catie & Arielle – Spanish Now! Level 1
• Guitar and Piano Lessons
• Typing Instructor for Kids

We’ve begun organizing our existing books into our new school space and I can’t wait to get the rest and finish all the organization that needs to be done. Also, it’s much easier to get ready for the new year now that we have found so many things that we love! What’s on your list?

Back to (Home) School 2013 ~ Curriculum

Also linking my personal curriculum choices up with the “Not Back to School Curriculum Hop” at iHomeschool Network. You should totally hop over and check it out. =)