July? How is it possibly already July? It seems like we just started summer. We have had a fun, but busy summer up to this point. We just got back from camping (yes, it was hot!) up in Arlington for a few days. We went to Six Flags, the mall (for air conditioning) and to a Texas Rangers game.
I am beginning to gear up and get ready for our next school year. Yeah, I'm a nerd like that. Love to learn and love to teach! Haley will be a S.E.N.I.O.R this year and Cole and Garrett will be freshman. It is hard to fathom that all three of my babies are now in high school with one about to graduate! We finished up with our history last year at the 1740's. Loved the time period that we studied, but I'm REALLY looking forward to this year and the following year. This coming fall we will be studying US/World History from the 1740's-1890's. We will continue using
The Mystery of History as Volume IV will be coming out soon! I do not stick to just one curriculum- never did when I was teaching in the public schools so we will also be using Diana Waring's
History Revealed: World Empires, World Missions, World Wars. I love how her curriculum incorporates all of the different learning styles and ways we learn! It honors how God created each of us differently and am excited to use that with all three of my kids. Those two curriculum will give us our "world" history and we will also be using BJU's
United States History asnd Notgrass'
Exploring America for our "American" history reading. In addition, I love Truthquest History and will continue to use her
Age of Revolution I, II and III for her commentary. Since my kiddos are not big fans of reading, I don't incorporate much historical literature into their schedule. Haley will be concentrating on Biblical Worldview, Apologetics and Missions for most of her reading. Cole & Garrett love Minecraft so we will be using SKrafty's Mineschool Homeschool Language Arts classes to read some of J.R.R. Tolkien's books like
The Hobbit and
Lord of the Rings. We will also finish out Bravewriter's
Help for High School for Haley and One Year Adventure Novel's
Cover Story for the boys.
I have created my own curriculum for Haley for government using Notgrass'
Exploring Government as her spine. I found a great website called saylor.org who offers FREE classes online. They offer an Introduction to American Politics course with documents and videos. So, I merged all of that together and created something I think will work for her! She will also be using Dave Ramsey's
Foundations in Personal Finance along with something I create for economics in the spring. Cole and Garrett will be using a curriculum I created for Biology. We are using
Biology 101 from the 101 Series along with the text
Exploring the World of Biology by Tiner, Apologia's
Exploring Creation With Biology and Guesthollow's
CK 12 Biology text. I used Guesthollow's Biology curriculum and Marty Sahm's Biology 101 curriculum to create my own! I appreciate all of the work these ladies did in creating some really awesome curriculum! The boys will be finishing up a Minecraft programming course from Youth Digital for their elective. All three kiddos are studying geometry this year. I decided to go with Math Without Borders Geometry curriculum for Cole and Garrett and Haley will be using Math U See for geometry. She is finishing up Math U See Stewardship Math this summer. I am still undecided on what we will be using for Bible this year...
I think we're going to have a super year! Full, but fun!
