Curriculum Picks: eighth Grade and sixth Grade
Yesterday the ladies and I took on the playroom/homeschool room. I had deliberate to do it alone however each jumped in wanting to assist, and I’m so glad they did as a result of we actually obtained in an intensive cleansing out and reorganization. The house feels so recent now and it actually has us feeling enthusiastic about spending our mornings collectively once more as we prepare to start out our new homeschool 12 months, eighth grade and sixth grade!
Sure, one way or the other I’ve two center schoolers this 12 months and some modifications on the horizon! First, we’re feeling settled in our new residence, a giant change from beginning our college 12 months at Nana’s kitchen desk final 12 months. And second, we’re becoming a member of a brand new co-op!
The co-op we joined midyear after our transfer was an excellent candy group of households whom we loved very a lot. What wasn’t a terrific match for me was the educating requirement. I felt I used to be spending Wednesday prepping and Thursday educating/serving to in courses, which finally led me to really feel like I used to be lacking out on two days of having the ability to focus alone children. Whereas we are going to miss seeing that group weekly, we’re grateful to nonetheless be plugged in with them socially.
Our new co-op is a Charlotte Mason impressed co-op with some strategies taken from a classical schooling strategy as effectively. One other change for us is {that a} couple core topics will likely be led by lecturers on the co-op as an alternative of me at residence (like eighth grade literature and composition). I’m each pleased and nervous about this.
I’m optimistic it’ll match our wants effectively and be a terrific group for us going into this new faculty 12 months. Each women participated within the center faculty women summer time e-book membership lately and whereas nervous upon arriving, had been lit up with nice issues to say concerning the expertise and the opposite women once I picked them up, which introduced some peace and confidence to this anxious mama’s coronary heart.
With no educating requirement from me I be at liberty to dive deeper and be extra current with the opposite days we’ve collectively at residence. There will likely be some required work assigned to the ladies from their co-op courses for every at-home day, and I’m including in another curriculum to fill out what I really feel will likely be a effectively rounded educational 12 months. I believe it’s going to be a very good one for us.
To accommodate our elevated work load that comes together with having two center schoolers, I plan on having us begin our days earlier. We had been starting our days at 9:00, however I’m going to shift that ahead to starting at 8:30 to permit us to get the majority of our work carried out by lunch time, leaving simply after lunch for something that must be completed up for the day.
Hailey’s eighth Grade Homeschool Curriculum
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Language Arts: Literature and Composition at our co-op: The course contains grammar, vocabulary, writing, and literature. The literature element explores literature from a wide range of cultures and eras and contains quick tales, poetry, non-fiction, fiction, and drama. The composition element contains inventive writing, poetry, and constructing on essay writing expertise as college students put together for extra educational writing in highschool.
Literature E-book Listing: Hatchet, Anne of Inexperienced Gables, The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind, Escape: The Story of the Nice Houdini, The Hound of the Baskervilles, The Pilgrim’s Progress, Swallows and Amazons, Shakespeare’s “The Comedy of Errors”, Holes, and The Hobbit.
Math: Saxon Algebra ½ with Nicole the Math Woman
Science: Apologia Common Science with co-op: The course covers a wide range of branches of science together with astronomy, meteorology, oceanography, earth examine, geology, paleontology, chemistry, physics, and environmental science. College students may also learn to use the scientific methodology, how one can write a lab report, and about many nice historic and modern-day scientists all whereas being impressed to raised perceive science and the world round them.
Nature Research: Reptiles (fall), brooks, rivers, oceans (winter), and backyard flowers and backyard weeds (spring)
Historical past: Stunning Toes Medieval Historical past (5-8)
Artwork: A give attention to artwork and sweetness in historical past, consciousness and appreciation of well-known artworks, and rising in private, inventive expression. Expertise in drawing, portray, varied kinds of combined media, printmaking, sculpture, and extra will likely be launched or constructed upon and explored.
Additional Curricular: Piano, Musical Theater, Soccer, Basketball
Kaitlyn’s sixth Grade Homeschool Curriculum
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Language Arts: She will likely be in a literature and composition class by way of co-op. I additionally plan to do Logic of English Necessities program along with her, beginning robust for a month earlier than co-op courses start and persevering with it alongside her co-op class as a lot as we’re in a position.
Literature E-book Listing: The Many Assassinations of Samir, Vendor of Goals, Shipwreck on the Backside of the World, A Lengthy Stroll to Water, The Wind within the Willows, The Story of King Arthur & His Knights, My Facet of the Mountain, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Journey to the River Sea, varied works of poetry.
Math: Saxon 7/6 with Nicole the Math Woman
Science: Easy Machines
Nature Research: Reptiles (fall), brooks, rivers, oceans (winter), and backyard flowers and backyard weeds (spring)
Historical past: Stunning Toes Medieval Historical past (5-8)
Cultural Research: Across the World in 80 Days and an emphasis on nations world wide
Additional Curricular: Musical Theater, Soccer, Basketball
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Topics We Do Collectively & Morning Time
Whereas math and language arts are absolutely separate topics for the ladies, there are numerous that we tackle collectively. We’ll be doing Medieval Historical past and nature examine collectively, in addition to rotating by way of our morning time actions. Normally with breakfast we’ll watch World Watch and talk about. Then every morning we’ve a brand new focus earlier than we get began.
We rotate by way of these well-known artworks playing cards (which have been such an enormous hit), a devotional (beginning this new one), private improvement (at the moment doing How one can Win Mates and Affect Individuals for Teenage Women which has some nice recommendation, however I edit a few of the content material that I really feel is extra applicable for 16+ than 11/13 as we go), handicrafts with learn aloud, and music examine. We discovered this previous 12 months how a lot all of us take pleasure in this mild entry into our days.
I’ve been hesitant on actually nailing down a begin date, however I believe we’re going to only go for it and start on Monday, August 4! Due to that, we’re actually leaning into the relaxed schedule of summer time this week. The ladies and I spent 4.5 hours yesterday placing collectively this puzzle on a whim (it’s a superb one). We’ve been swimming, watching films, studying (Hailey, each likelihood she will be able to get), and staying up later than standard. …And these are all issues we are able to proceed to take pleasure in within the afternoons after we get our classes carried out says trainer mother 😉
