someone asked

Aug. 3, 2006 - Someone asked ...

so here's what we're using this year.

For some reading, all of his history and some writing ... we're finishing US History using the 3/4 Sonlight reading list and Story of the USA(The reading list is great, not too difficult and to challenge him, I'm making some of the read alouds read alones ... we'll see if that flies since I love the reading too. I really want to focus on some state history from Missouri(Randy's home), Indiana(my home) and then we'll do specific Tn History another year.

For more specific reading, we're also doing Total Language Plus and starting with the unit for My Side of the Mountain. That includes spelling, vocabulary, writing, grammar and comprehension. We'll probably also do some writing strands, journaling and daily grammar checks that I get from the internet.

For Bible we are using God Made Them Great ... it is a book including 5 folks who did incredible mission work, but aren't regularly included in mainstream books on missions. We were part of a Sunday School class in Indiana a few weeks ago and the teaching was on David Brainerd- AJ was facinated at his life and what he did even though he only lived to be 29. We used that as a jumping off point and he's very excited about it.

Math we are using Saxon 6/5 and much prayer!

Science, we're using something new to us called Lyrical Science- Geology. I needed something new, but NOT boring. And, I needed one subject that I felt we could at the very least review in the car, the cd for the songs makes that work.

Geography- we're going to continue with Cantering the Country. I really didn't use it after the first semester and I think we'll just try to become more familiar with US Geography ... Enchanted Learning has a great geography dictionary of terms and if I get really organized(doubtful, but I think it's a good idea) we'll learn one or two a week, locate them on a black line map and "test" end of the semester(that would only be a max of 28 terms if you look at a 14 week semester). I'll probably use the time we are traveling to teach geography as well.

We're also doing Latin with our co-op. So, this will be part of the mix. Violin, I mean fiddle lessons ... church choir and youth group and football for p.e.

Just writing it makes me feel overwhelmed.