School began this week in our school district of Georgia. Wow! Because one of the children is not here we have decided to put off starting until next week. We don't take as many breaks as the other schools, so we make up our days further in the year.
After home schooling for 13 years now, I finally feel like I'm getting how to put together our schedule and our curriculum. We belong to a co op and the children are involved with music one day a week. So I've learned how to work around those activities. Plus this year, one of the children is trying to do two years in one so that adds another dimension to the schedule.
And this year, I finally feel confident in the ALL the curriculum we're using. So for any of you that are interested, this is what we are using this year:
History - Diana Waring's Romans, Reformers, Revolutionaries, www.dianawaring.com,
Story of the World Vol. 2, www.peacehillpress.com,
Georgia Dailies www.gallopade.com
Science - Apologia's Physical Science and Chemistry www.apologia.com
Language Arts - Shurley English www.shurley.com,
Writing Strands www.writing-strands.com ,
Spelling Power www.spellingpower.com, and
Drawn into the Heart of Reading www.heartofdakota.com
Foreign Language - Learnables' Spanish www.learnables.com and
Latina Christiana www.memoriapress.com
Music - Harmony Fine Arts www.harmonyfinearts.com
Art - Artistic Pursuits www.artisticpursuits.com
I have a few more "extras" that I'll probably be using throughout as I love the Eleanor Hoomes' creative writing series www.amazon.com and Wordly Wise vocabulary www.wordlywise3000.com. We are also picking up Shakespeare again with our co op this year and I have a slew (or is that slough) of books for teaching Shakespeare.
My reasoning for using these particular curriculums and my Shakespeare picks will have to wait until another posting. I may post our schedule. And because I think I'm finally wise enough, I'll post my recommended scope and sequence. (We have to tootle off to take a child to work.)
