Our fifth year of homeschooling has officially commenced! I can’t believe it! We reevaluate each year about whether to continue, but I truly can’t imagine schooling any other way right now. Here’s the lineup as of now!
Angel (6th grade)
- Memory Work: Claritas Classical Academy and fun review games
- Timeline: Classical Conversations
- Grammar: Fundamental Grammar
- Writing: Institute for Excellence in Writing
- Spelling: Spelling Plus
- Reading: Various chapter books for pleasure reading, non-fiction & fiction related to our studies
- Math: Math Mammoth 6
- History: Claritas Classical Academy, lots of reading
- Geography: Claritas Classical Academy and map drawing
- Science: Claritas Classical Academy, related studies and experiments, God’s Design for Science
- Health: Cooking skills, nutrition, human anatomy
- Art: Community day lessons covering elements of art and artist studies
- Music: Community day lessons covering music theory and composer studies, private piano lessons
- Foreign Language: Mandarin Chinese tutor
- Bible: Family Bible studies and Claritas Classical Academy
- Physical Education: Tae Kwon Do
- Typing: Type 2 Learn 4
- Memory Work: Claritas Classical Academy and fun review games
- Timeline: Classical Conversations
- Handwriting: Zaner-Bloser Handwriting 3
- Grammar: Bridges Classical Community grammar lessons
- Writing: Copy work related to memory work
- Spelling: Spelling Plus
- Reading: All About Reading 4 and various pleasure reading
- Math: Math Mammoth 3 and Xtramath website
- History: Claritas Classical Academy, lots of reading
- Geography: Claritas Classical Academy and map drawing
- Science: Claritas Classical Academy, related studies and experiments, God’s Design for Science
- Health: Cooking skills, nutrition, human anatomy
- Art: Community day lessons covering elements of art and artist studies
- Music: Community day lessons covering music theory and composer studies, private guitar lessons
- Foreign Language: Mandarin Chinese tutor
- Bible: Family Bible studies and Claritas Classical Academy
- Physical Education: Tae Kwon Do
Sunshine (1st grade)
- Memory Work: Claritas Classical Academy and fun review games
- Timeline: Classical Conversations
- Handwriting: Zaner-Bloser Handwriting K
- Reading: All About Reading Level 2
- Math: Math Mammoth 1
- History: Claritas Classical Academy, lots of reading
- Geography: Claritas Classical Academy and map drawing
- Science: Claritas Classical Academy, related studies and experiments, God’s Design for Science
- Health: Cooking skills, nutrition, human anatomy
- Art: Community day lessons covering elements of art and artist studies
- Music: Community day lessons covering music theory and composer studies, private piano lessons
- Foreign Language: Mandarin Chinese tutor
- Bible: Family Bible studies and Claritas Classical Academy
- Physical Education: Tae Kwon Do
Dumpling (Pre-K)
He will be working on communication, building vocabulary, letter, number, shape & color recognition, and life skills, while also attending our classical community days with us.