Simon Bolivar: The Liberator Bruchko Hill of Fire (I Can Read Book) Secret of the Andes Life is a Jungle (series) Brothers at Arms (I haven't read this one but my 12yo loved it)

We're using Elemental Science Chemistry for the Grammar Stage this year and my boys (grades 1, 3, and 5) love it. It's a little over my 1st grader's head. I just picked a few basic concepts I wanted him to know and have hammered those in with review - I consider anything else he absorbs to be a bonus:) I made a youtube playlist which I think helps all of them understand and definitely piques interest. We always start by listening to a song of all the elements and they've memorized close to half since we started about 3 months ago (because they wanted to, not because I said they had to). Elemental Science just published a second edition and I like the layout much better - I'm doing a combo of both editions since I already had the spines for the 1st. And they have great customer service:) I'm going to try to incorporate a little kitchen chemistry too, maybe using Ellen McHenry. In the past mine have also liked Sonlight resources and will watch the videos for fun - weird:)

This is my first time posting - I think it will help me get everything straight in my head! We live overseas and school year round starting in January. Next year mine will be in 6th, 4th, 3rd, 1st, and PreK. Bible - Family Worship, Westminster Shorter Catechism (memorizing), Picture Smart Bible Character - at least 1 missionary bio, gratitude journal, lots of Adventures in Odyssey, maybe CM's Laying Down the Rails? Math - TT 7, occasional LoF Science - Apologia Anatomy w/siblings and when we finish that she'll start General Science Grammar - Analytical Grammar Spelling - AAS 6 and then 7 if I still feel like she needs it Writing - Finish IEW Ancients, then do...?, Story Starters Copywork - variety of famous quotes, poems, and selections from literature - she loves copywork. Literature - a few VP or Progeny Press Lit guides (not more than 4) and lots of extra reading (her favorite), bi-monthly bookclub Poetry - MP Horatius at the Bridge, Linguistic Development through Poetry Memorization History - MOH 2 with lots of extra books Foreign Language - we live in a spanish speaking country = immersion:) Typing - she learned it last year but I think needs another turn through... Lifeskills - I outsource this to dh - he does a little class with them once a week with topics ranging from using a credit card to changing a tire to gun safety. I also have high hopes to use Girls' Guide to Home Skills but it's been sitting on my shelf all year:( I have the one for boys too - I'd like to pick which chapters to cover and do it with all of them. About time my boys start detailing the bathrooms! PE - tennis + life with 3 brothers:) Everything else get thrown into Morning Time - Classical Composers Monthly, Vocabulary Cartoons, Philosophy for Kids, finish Fallacy Detective, some living math projects (flipping through How Math Works), CNN Student News, sometimes articles from God's World News, This Day in History, lots of games spanning the subjects, youtube videos, and we're going to TRY to start a commonplace book - if I give her pretty pens she'll probably like it:)

posting here so i can hopefully buy curriculum