2011-2012 Curriculum

This year I will have a 6th grader, 3rd grader, and 1st grader. We will continue to do quite a bit of school all together with some different expectations for each of them depending on what they're capable of doing. 

Colin: 6th grade

Math
RightStart: Geometric Approach
Life of Fred: Decimals and Percents
Lial's Basic College Math

Language Arts
Spell to Write and Read-  He has finished all the lists, but will be reviewing phonograms, rules, and reference pages. He'll also be doing some of the grammar and writing activities in it until January when he starts some new stuff (see below).
English from the Roots Up
Dance Mat Typing, Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing
          The following won't be out until January. We'll be using some things we have and online resources for grammar and writing review for the next couple months. Then we'll start using the PDFs she has provided that includes the first several weeks.
Writing with Skill
The Creative Writer
Advanced Language Lessons

Logic
A Case of Red Herrings
The Fallacy Detective

Caleigh: 3rd Grade

Math

RightStart D  (she will probably need about 2 months to finish up level C first)

Challenging Word Problems

Language Arts

Spell to Write and Read

Cursive First (review lowercase, learn capitals)

First Language Lessons

Writing with Ease

Molly: 1st grade

Math

RightStart B

Language Arts

Handwriting Without Tears: My Printing Book and Printing Power

First Language Lessons 1

Ordinary Parent's Guide to Teaching Reading

Spell to Write and Read (we will slowly start switching over to this starting with learning all the phonograms)

All Together

History

Story of the World Volume 3: Early Modern Times with Activity Guide

A History of US

            (We will either stop or slow down with history in April to start a study of the Little House on the Prairie series going through at least the summer.)

Science

Exploring Creation with Zoology 1

Real Science 4 Kids: Chemistry

Fizz, Bubble, and Flash

Foreign Language

Power Glide Spanish

Art

Meet the Masters

Artistic Pursuits

Discovering Great Artists

Draw Write Now (to go along with whatever else we're studying)

Music

The Story of the Orchestra

Geography

We'll be concentrating on the U.S. states this year. For right now, I plan to do a state at least every Friday. I'll post our plans and the resources we'll use soon.

Unit Studies

We'll be doing unit studies that go along with the history or science we're studying. We'll also do them some just to do something different. Most of what we'll use is the following:

Five in a Row

Homeschool Share

Amanda Bennett Unit Studies

Download 'n Go

Prairie Primer

Activities

Colin will play ice hockey on a travel team. Once that season ends, he will probably do roller hockey in the spring.

We will go to the monthly homeschool days for rollerskating and also hope to make it to some of the weekly homeschool days for ice skating.

We are going to some plays at the Children's Theater. 

Molly will play basketball starting in October.
All the kids will take a homeschool tennis class.

I'm waiting for Colin's hockey schedule to come out before we commit to anything else.

We already have some field trips planned and will meet our homeschool friends for park days on Fridays.