FO4UR Posted February 23, 2014 Share Posted February 23, 2014 I am highly undecided, but here is a start:     Math:  I'm considering Jousting Armadillos.  I have AoPS pre-algebra on the shelf.  Singapore CWP 6 is also on the shelf.  Completely undecided.  I'm leaning towards Singapore 6 CWP/IP and Patty Paper Geometry & Hands on Equations.  ( I just love to torture myself with math planning, I guess.  I'll add S-U in, as needed, should his computation skills begin to wane.)    Apples & Pears Spelling Book B (maybe C too, if he can do it.  He's my dyslexic, and I'm trying to nudge him along.).   Writing Skills Book 1   Literature:  ???  I'll pick some books and he'll narrate.  I've been writing out narration prompts in study-guide format.  I'll continue this.  I just have to decide what books to assign.  I think I'll have him do a Kilgallon wb, and make writing assignments across the curriculum.  I'll just use the Writing Skills book to inform my lesson planning.   Grammar ????  Maybe we'll just do Latin and call it good enough.   Latin  ????  (See above.  Hahahaha!!!!!)  I'm thinking about Galore Park.  Grammar + Latin would be too many subjects for ds...I gotta pick a Latin that will cover enough grammar for me, which shouldn't be difficult.   History:  SOTW 4  We'll delve into music & art that pertains to history, which should be FUN for me this year in SOTW 4.    Science:  ???  (We are doing Nutshell kits + books now.  We could do a few more of those.  Or I could try something different.  I love the Nutshell Kits...I want them for Jr High level science.)  I'm going to push him on writing.  He's dyslexic, so it will be a push.  I think I'll stick with the Nutshell kits for one more year before ramping up.   I'd like to teach him some basic piano.  He has a natural ear, and can sing well, but dyslexia puts a damper on the reading of notation.  I want to work on that this year, now that he's reading English well.  I'd like him to play a band instrument too, but I'll have to search around here for the opportunity.  (New to this city)    1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted February 23, 2014 Share Posted February 23, 2014 Here is our plans for dd's 6th grade... Â Grammar:Â IEW Fix it! Writing: IEW Ancient Based History Lessons Literature:Â Age appropriate w/two book reports and two lit guides Spelling:Â Apples & Pears C & D Math:Â CLE History:Â BJU Heritage Studies 6 3rd ed. Science: BJU 6 DLO Foreign Language:Â SOS French ? Â 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SemiSweet Posted February 23, 2014 Share Posted February 23, 2014 Math - Singapore 5A & 5B Khan Academy Life of Fred Balance Benders Level 1 Language Arts - Learning Language Through Literature Level 5?? Critical Thinking Company Editor in Chief B1 Word Roots A2 Think Analogies B1 Spelling Workout History - Story of the World Ancients Science - Mr. Q Life Science - 1st Semester SiaNS - Crystal Creations Energy & Motion A Peak Inside You Body Basics Weather Wise Water Cycle Typing - Type to Learn 4 - $30 Latin/Foreign Language - Lively Latin Social Studies - You Decide! - $26 Trail Guide to World Geography & CD - $40 Logic - Fallacy Detective Art - ?? PE - Football Swim Group PE Â Well, several months later and we are doing pretty much none of that. I'm going to update in a new post. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kinspired Posted February 24, 2014 Share Posted February 24, 2014 I love these threads because they spur me on to plan for the next year. Here's what we have so far: Â Science: home brewed physics with Knex Education stuff Math: Geometry (Jacobs or aops), PPG Literature: ancient History: Human Odyssey Foreign languages: (her main love) So You Really Want to Lean French, Duolingo French, Irasshai and mirai 2 Art and piano: outsourced 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sagira Posted February 24, 2014 Share Posted February 24, 2014 Sixth grade! Aaah! Here are my plans: Â Mathematics: MM 5B and 6A English: Serl's Intermediate Language Lessons (ILL), Wordsmith Apprentice, English From The Roots Up History: Dorothy Mills' Book Of the Ancient World, Book of the Ancient Greeks, Book of the Ancient Romans using Kfamily's Mind in the Light curriculum, The Human Odyssey: Prehistory Through The Middle Ages, Landmark biographies, What Life Was Like, a great selection of living books Literature Read-Alouds: A Christmas Carol, The Call of the Wild, White Fang, The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind Play: Shakespeare's Twelfth Night Natural Science: Finish BFSU 2 Elementary Science Education, BFSU 3 Middle School Elementary, Behold and See 5 and 6, Exploring The Way Life Works, a nice selection of living books Reading: Around the World in Eighty Days, Gentle Ben, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, The Incredible Journey, North to Freedom, A Wrinkle in Time, Cheaper by the Dozen Geography: A Child's Geography: both Explore the Holy Land and Explore the Classical World, selections Spanish: So You Really Want to Learn Spanish Book 1 (finish up) and Book 2; Duolingo Spanish, Rosetta Stone LatAm Spanish Homeschool Ed. Latin: The Big Book of Latin Volume 1 - Lively Latin Poetry: Millay, Tennyson, and Frost using Poetry for Young People series, Teaching Poetry Yes You Can Art: Usborne Introduction to Art and for skills not sure yet. Daddy's in charge. Music: Classics for Kids, Usborne Introduction to Music Bible: The Children's Bible Spelling: Natural Speller and Spelling City 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sagira Posted February 24, 2014 Share Posted February 24, 2014 Forgot to add PE: Taekwondo year-round, accompanied by either swimming or basketball. He might do ballet/tap/jazz again some time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
omd21 Posted February 25, 2014 Share Posted February 25, 2014 I'm mostly a lurker here but I thought I'd share our plans for dd who will be a 6th grader! Where has the time gone?  Math - Jacob's Algebra Science - Rainbow Science Year 1 Grammar - R&S 6 Writing - write @home online class History - Medieval / Early R. WTM Method with History: The Definitive Visual Guide Reading from WTM Lit List for 6th  Spelling - on the fence. We are bored with Spelling workout this year and not sure if we should have it. Any suggestions?  Latin - continue with Artes Latinae  Ice skating. Drama with local group. Cooking, sewing, and art with me :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Desert Strawberry Posted February 28, 2014 Share Posted February 28, 2014 I think I have it worked out, but I'm sure I will adjust as I think of things/depending on where he ends up. He just got a new math book and physics book today. We're still kind of mid-year.  Math/ Science -LOF Physics, PreAlgebra with Biology and PreAlgebra with Economics EtA:CK12 Braingenie, maybe CK12 science, Jousting Armadillos Writing -Writing Strands 3 EtA: Writing Workshop, NaNoWriMo Vocabulary/roots- English From the Roots Up Independent reading- Mensa List History- America the Story of Us Vol1-3 Logic- Logic Liftoff series, something else Grammar- EtA: KISS grammar  Science, art, music, copywork and creative writing to be decided as we go. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
amsunshine Posted March 1, 2014 Share Posted March 1, 2014 This is tentative:  Grammar: Hake 8 Easy Grammar Ultimate 8 Writing: Lively Art of Writing/Windows to the World  WWS2 Literature: Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court; Midsummer Night's Dream; Prince and the Pauper; eta: Beowulf; Canterbury Tales Spelling/Vocab: SWO G; Scripps Word Club; Finish Word Roots Math: Dimensions Math 8A/8B & AoPS Intro to Algebra French: Maybe Holt Bien Dit? Science: Earth and Space -- Holt Sci and Technology Derek Owens PhySci History: Medieval/Renaissance using k12 HO vols 1 & 2 Computer Programming: KidCoder Web Design 1 & 2 or TeenCoder C# 1 & 2  Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elfknitter.# Posted March 1, 2014 Share Posted March 1, 2014 I'm trying to streamline somethings. So far I'm thinking:OM6 Ancient Civ & EnglishBrave WriterKISS Grammar Lively LatinMath MammothRSO Biology  eta: changing my mind about what we want to do for grammar Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TianXiaXueXiao Posted March 2, 2014 Share Posted March 2, 2014 Hi Laurel, Â Just wanted to check if you saw my earlier post in response to your Earth Science recommendations request. Looks like your plans are starting to take shape! I am still waffling in many areas. Â Cheers! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChicoryChick Posted March 3, 2014 Share Posted March 3, 2014 Math: TT6 Grammar & Writings: EIW 6 or SWI & Easy Grammar Plus Spelling & Vocabulary: Word Roots A1 Handwriting: Pentime 6 Literature/Reading: Various Books Science: Apologia Astronomy + ? (thinking Tiner's Exploring Planet Earth) History: Mystery of History 3 Art: Art Explosion (from Timberdoodle)   Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chloe Posted March 8, 2014 Share Posted March 8, 2014 Wow, I will have my third 6th grader next year! Â Â This ds is dyslexic..... Â Math - Singapore 4B/5A English - Apples and Pears Spelling B and C Â Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chloe Posted March 8, 2014 Share Posted March 8, 2014 Wow, I will have my third 6th grader next year!   This ds is dyslexic.....  Math - Singapore 4B/5A English - Apples and Pears Spelling B and C        Winston Grammar Basics (continued from this year)        Literature from 1000 Good Books List and Ambleside Online        Written Narrations History - Our Island Story (with a few bigraphies and other nonfiction thrown in) Science - Exploring Creation with Zoology 1 and Botonay (reading only) Spanish - various games and materials and weekly FaceTiming with bilingual Aunt Rosie Bible - daily reading and devotionals  Lots of free time for digging, whittling, computer programming, movie-making, woodworking and pottery!  This child is VERY active and creative.  1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quiver0f10 Posted March 9, 2014 Share Posted March 9, 2014 Teaching Textbooks 6 Learning Language Through Lit 5 Logic of English Advanced Lists/Prepared dictation Literature-assorted Science in the Beginning America From the Beginning Getting Started with Latin Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skimomma Posted March 10, 2014 Share Posted March 10, 2014 This thread finally got me to make a plan......  Math - Singapore 6  LA - WWS2 and Analytical Grammar Year 2  History - Human Odyssey Middle Ages along with reading from TWTM list  Science - Elemental Science Logic Stage Chemistry or Earth Science (have not decided yet)  Music - Suzuki Violin  Latin  - Lukeion Project Latin 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
melmichigan Posted March 10, 2014 Share Posted March 10, 2014 under consideration:  Math - Math in Focus  English - RS Spelling/Grammar 6         WWS1 (1st half or so)         Landry English II:         MCT Grammar Town         Building Poems         Caesar's English I         Paragraph Town                  Literature -  Hittite Warrior           D'Aulaires' Book of Greek Myths           Theras and His Town           Mystery of the Roman Ransom           The Bronze Bow           Black Horses for the King           The Samurai's Tale           Adam of the Road           Landry English II:           The Horse and his Boy           Island of the Blue Dolphind           Where the Red Fern Grows           A Single Shard           Holes           Out of the Dust  History, Geography, Art, Music, etc - Ancient History based around TOG Y1 and SL Core 6, adapted into a secular manner with lots of extras from my previous D rotation  Science - Exploration Education Physical Science  Foreign Language - Duolingo French                 SYRWTLF                  or                 Getting Started with Latin        2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VeteranMom Posted March 10, 2014 Share Posted March 10, 2014 For my Ds: Saxon 8/7 Wordly Wise 6 Spelling workout will continue with Level F until we finish Hake Grammar/writing 7 American the Beautiful History 2nd book with some historical fiction and geography Atelier Art Piano Critical Thinking- I haven't decided Bible- Discover 4 yourself books by Kay Arthur Cursive- Pentime Evan Moor Editing PE- basketball Apologia Science- Astronomy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jilly Posted March 15, 2014 Share Posted March 15, 2014 This is my very tentative plan. I am sure it will change many times before fall. :)  Math - MUS pre-algebra Literature - LLLOTR Grammar - Cozy Grammar Science - RSO Biology - We have already begun this and he will most likely finish around December. I am not sure what we will do after this. History - ??? This is where I am stuck. Unlike my older two, this son does not like history. I need to find something very engaging that he will enjoy.  In addition to this he will continue to make games and animations on Scratch as this is his passion. He will also write throughout the year. He has written at least 5 full-length novels this year and I am sure he will continue doing so. He will also continue with piano which he tolerates but does not love. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
.... Posted March 18, 2014 Share Posted March 18, 2014 6th grade plans for my son, who is a visual-spatial learner and a late bloomer:  Key to Fractions, Decimals and Percents, Life of Fred Fractions/Decimals and Percents Notgrass' America the Beautiful unschoolish language arts-type stuff like The Giggly Guide to Grammar, Unjournaling, Rip the Page!, King Onomatopoeia and Other Stories  Various Unit Studies...he's a unit study-kinda guy.  Edited to add: I think I know what unit study we're going to tackle next year.  I think we'll do a year of Engineering.    This is what my current 6th grader (dd) has done this year:  Life of Fred Beginning Algebra w/ AOPS Prealgebra for challenge problems Notgrass' America the Beautiful (this has been a huge hit) Botany using these resources- Practical Botany for Gardeners, Latin for Gardeners, Plant Propagator's Bible, Botany in a Day, Botany for the Artist, Orchid Grower's Companion, The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Orchids, The New Encyclopedia of Orchids, Encyclopedia of Flowering Shrubs...  She also designed a garden, started building an aeroponics system and is building a seed bank.    Edited again.  I finally know what we're doing for our Engineering Unit Study (cue Rocky music)...  This will be for both the 11 yro and 9 yro...and possibly the 6 yro.  Books: The New How Things Work How Cars Work Built to Last Building BIG Engineering the City: How Infrastructure Works... The World's Most Amazing Bridges The Story of Inventions  Kits: Physics Pro (my kids already did everything in Physics Workshop) Motorworks Engine Kit K'Nex Bridges Kit  Books with Projects: The Art of Construction Draw 50 Buildings and Other Structures Ultimate Building Book Famous Buildings of Frank Lloyd Wright (Dover coloring book)  If that's not enough, I'll have the kids build an underground shelter in the backyard to prepare for the zombie apocalypse.  :tongue_smilie: Just kidding.  Our backyard is too small.      2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mandy in TN Posted March 19, 2014 Share Posted March 19, 2014 Totally revamped in post #93  Under Consideration, but definitely just penciled in  Time4Learning LA- grade 6 without the book studies LAx- grade 6 Math- maybe use their preA or grade 8 math as review Science- the new middle school Earth science Social Studies- I am considering using grade 5 chapters 12-15 and grade 6 chapters 12-17. These chapters cover geography, civics, and economics. Something like this: Semester 1 Civics Grade 5- Chapter 14: Political Science Grade 6- Chapter 15: Political Science Grade 6- Chapter 16: U.S. Political System Economics Grade 5- Chapter 15: Economic System Grade 6- Chapter 17: Economic System Semester 2 Geography Grade 6- Chapter 14: Maps/ Globes/ Geographic Tools Grade 5- Chapter 12: Geography of the United States Grade 5- Chapter 13: World Geography Grade 6- Chapter 12: Investigate Your State Grade 6- Chapter 13: Characteristics of Your State  Literature and Composition- Hewitt LL grade 8 with Hewitt grading service Grammar- Holt Elements of Language First Course, and I may also add Editor in Chief Vocabulary- Vocabulary from Classical Roots Shakespeare- Hamlet, Romeo and Juliet, and Much Ado about Nothing  Math- UNDECIDED (thoughts- AOPS, a new tutor, a MathCounts group, Khan Academy)  History- The Great Courses Middle Ages (the 3 courses by Prof Philip Daileader)  German- OSU German 1  Poet- ? Artist- CM study based on what is at the Frist Composer- CM study based on what is at the Nashville Symphony Instruments- Violin and Mandolin  This year ds read Fallacy Detective, Whatever Happened to Penny Candy, and is about to begin The Ten Things All Future Mathematicians Should Know But are Rarely Taught. I would like to do something similar next year. but I haven't decided on the books (maybe - Philosophy for Kids: 40 Fun Questions That Help You Wonder about Everything, Perplexing Puzzles and Tantalizing Teasers, and/ or Plague! Problem Studies for One)  We will definitely add living books to science. Oh, and, although I am really not feeling like using Christian materials, I am pretty set on LL8, and I may also use The Harp and the Laurel Wreath for poetry because it is already on my shelf.  Many of you have posted things that I want to check out! So, this tentative list may need a revision very shortly. Thanks for getting me thinking- Mandy 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
readinmom Posted March 22, 2014 Share Posted March 22, 2014 In the middle of planning right now.  Considering:  1. Seton Home Grade 6 enrollment, with extracurricular activities  2. Piecing together WTM and forum suggestions  Math Looking at Saxon 6/5, MUS, or Math Mammoth  History Well Trained Mind suggestions, or Notgrass America the Beautiful (thanks for the suggestion)  Grammar/Writing/Spelling Cozy Grammar IEW or continue with Bravewriter ACSI Spelling 6  Vocabulary WordSmart Online English From the Roots Up  Literature Well Trained Mind Literature Suggestions, continue with Percy Jackson series, Harry Potter series, Nancy Drew  Science Christian Kids Explore Earth and Space (loved the Chemistry so far this year)  Bible ?????  Art/Music Artist and Composer study (biographies/major works, field trips) art class  Extracurricular musical theater class, dance, piano, swim, Awana      Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mom31257 Posted March 26, 2014 Share Posted March 26, 2014 I went to the convention this past weekend, previewed some things, ordered some things, etc. Â I'm still planning and figuring it all out, but I'll hopefully have it all planned by next month. How is going for all of you? Have any of you been wrestling with decisions and made any definite ones? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sagira Posted March 26, 2014 Share Posted March 26, 2014 I added Duolingo to our Spanish repertoire and Classics for Kids for Music. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
readinmom Posted March 27, 2014 Share Posted March 27, 2014 No changes as of yet, but for the longest time I thought I had killed this thread! :laugh: 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mandy in TN Posted March 27, 2014 Share Posted March 27, 2014 I still haven't decided on math. Â We will be using Harp and Laurel Wreath for Poetry, because I pulled it off the shelf and there are scheduling notes already penciled in from when I used it with my oldest. (I don't even remember doing that- after all it would have been 7 or 8 or so years ago.) Something would need to be wonderful and free for me to change my mind. Â I am pretty set on Philosophy for Kids and Plague!, but I think ds will use Uncle Eric Talks about Personal, Career and Financial Security. Actually, I am not set on this particular book, but this is the topic ds wants. Â This year ds has used a workbook alongside his Great Courses lectures. I may have him use something like that again. Â This is where I am right now. Mandy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mom31257 Posted March 27, 2014 Share Posted March 27, 2014 Hopefully we won't kill it, either, readinmom!  I'm trying to look at the rest of middle school and set some goals for long term. It's difficult, though, to figure out which things to use to reach those goals because we've been participating in a co-op and book club. I'm stepping out of the co-op completely next year but will probably want to return the next. The book club is still a possibility, so I'm going to try and consider it in my plans, just in case. Dd is applying to do dual enrollment next year, and I don't know how soon we'd know her actual schedule of classes. I'll be driving her for part of the fall semester.  She should be applying the first full week of April, so we'll see what they say then.     Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abrightmom Posted March 27, 2014 Share Posted March 27, 2014 Bible: Bible reading plan and a few carefully chosen books including Big Truths for Young Hearts (part of it) and Boyhood & Beyond.Math Mammoth 6 and CLE hybridWriting: IEW Medieval OR Attuneup Time Capsule OR Jump InEnglish: Analytical Grammar. Maybe followed by IEW Fix It. Dictation Day by Day/Roots Study (VFCR?)Lit: CLE Reading + hefty lit list. (mix of HF, Classics, and other)Programming course.Visual Latin. See the Light ArtMFW RTR or SOTW2 with sibs with logic stage extras (Human Odyssey and ??) Disc. World of Geog 6/7 CNN Student News/GWNScience: Wile's Science in the Ancient World.  Ellen McH chemistry. Microscopy.  *Still ironing out wrinkles. Streamlining and condensing bit by bit. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tjlcc Posted March 28, 2014 Share Posted March 28, 2014 Tentative plans:  Math - Singapore Math 6 or Systemath 6, plus Your Business Math (Simply Charlotte Mason)  History, including Church History - Mystery of History Vol. 2, Trial & Triumph, Peril & Peace, plus others in the series, An Island Story, Story of the Middle Ages, Story of the Renaissance & Reformation, The Story of the Romans, plus various biographies and a few historical fiction titles  Science - Tiner titles, Wonders of Creation series, The Mystery of the Periodic Table, It Just Couldn't Happen, The Sea Around Us  Language Arts - Jump In (2nd half), Language Lessons through Literature, Dictation Day by Day, writing across the curriculum, and possibly AttuneUp  Foreign Language - Hey Andrew! ... Greek! levels 4/5  Lit. - a book list he can choose from  Other - TaeKwon-Do, programming, Home Art Studio, possibly another Minecraft Homeschooling course  I'm undecided about logic and our afternoon family reading.  Final plans:  Bible - Who is God and Can I Really Know Him?, independent and family reading using an ESV version  Memory Work - Genesis 1, Romans 8, and various Proverbs  Math - Singapore 6, Zaccaro's Becoming a Problem Solving Genius (2nd half), Your Business Math (SCM), Balance Benders Level 1  History - same as above  Chemistry - Ellen McHenry's The Elements (followed by her Carbon Chemistry is there is an interest), along with these titles:  The Mystery of the Periodic Table, How to Think Like a Scientist, Robert Boyle and Exploring the World of Chemistry (Tiner), Transformed: How Everyday Things Are Made, The Story Book of Science, Marie Curie.  We'll also watch The University of Nottingham's Periodic Table videos someone posted in another thread.  Other Science - The Wonder Book of Knowledge, Johannes Kepler (Tiner), It Just Couldn't Happen (Richards) and we may try a Nutshell kit  Language Arts - Language Lessons through Literature (currently using Level 3), Dictation Day by Day, McGuffey's 3rd/4th Readers, Maxwell's School Composition, cursive copywork (poetry)  Literature - Figuratively Speaking (continue), along with a book list he can choose from  Foreign Language - same as above  Geography - Discovering the World of Geography workbook for Grade 6/7  Canadian History - Canada: A People's History DVDs  Character - Created for Work (Schultz)  Life Skills - Complete Wilderness Training Manual  Other - TKD, programming, Home Art Studio 5  Family Studies -  Geography: Hungry Planet & Material World  Economics: Striker Jones  Science: More Than Meets the Eye  Music Appreciation: Music Masters - Bach, Beethoven & Brahms  Character: Teaching Character Intermediate (Beautiful Feet)  Missions: Seed Sowers (Toliver)  Theology: Old Paths for Little Feet (Brandt) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
.... Posted March 28, 2014 Share Posted March 28, 2014 Science: Exploration Ed., Ellen McH stuff, RS4K Middle School Geology, a microscopy unit; thinking on BJU 6 online also. This needs to be 90% independent.   Hi, abrightmom, my 11 yro and 9 yro are working through Ellen McHenry's chemistry books this year.  For us, it's been 100% teacher-intensive.  Also, I have to find materials (this week I'm going out to buy copper wire), make copies of things in the books for activities, make paper dice with compounds on each face, etc.  So, there is some teacher prep to it.  However, the chemistry is awesome.  My kids love her curricula.  I will probably end up owning all of her curricula at some point.  If you have time to do it, it's a great program.  But, if you're looking for independent, I'm not sure an 11 yro could do it independently.   My kids are using this book along with Ellen McHenry's:  http://www.amazon.com/The-Elements-Visual-Exploration-Universe/dp/1579128955/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1396010155&sr=8-1&keywords=the+elements It's been helping them to "see" all the elements that are being talked about in the EM book.  My 9 yro likes this book so much that she wanted her copy work to be from it!  LOL.  Sorry for rambling.  Good luck with your school year!! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
.... Posted March 28, 2014 Share Posted March 28, 2014 We'll also watch The University of Nottingham's Periodic Table videos someone posted in another thread. Â Â Â :w00t:Â What videos are these? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abrightmom Posted March 28, 2014 Share Posted March 28, 2014 Hi, abrightmom, my 11 yro and 9 yro are working through Ellen McHenry's chemistry books this year. For us, it's been 100% teacher-intensive. Also, I have to find materials (this week I'm going out to buy copper wire), make copies of things in the books for activities, make paper dice with compounds on each face, etc. So, there is some teacher prep to it. However, the chemistry is awesome. My kids love her curricula. I will probably end up owning all of her curricula at some point. If you have time to do it, it's a great program. But, if you're looking for independent, I'm not sure an 11 yro could do it independently. Â My kids are using this book along with Ellen McHenry's: http://www.amazon.com/The-Elements-Visual-Exploration-Universe/dp/1579128955/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1396010155&sr=8-1&keywords=the+elements It's been helping them to "see" all the elements that are being talked about in the EM book. My 9 yro likes this book so much that she wanted her copy work to be from it! LOL. Â Sorry for rambling. Good luck with your school year!! Thanks for sharing this. The good news is the prep is done :). I guess I don't mind if intensity is required in spurts. My guy has been begging me to start Ellen and I have drug my feet. I will have to just roll this one out and lay off my involvement in another area until he has a semi-independent science unit (his microscopy will be largely self led). Thanks for the book reminder. We have looked at it via the library and loved it. I just ordered it ;). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abrightmom Posted March 28, 2014 Share Posted March 28, 2014 :w00t: What videos are these? Wowsers, these look fun! http://www.periodicvideos.com 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
.... Posted March 28, 2014 Share Posted March 28, 2014 My guy has been begging me to start Ellen and I have drug my feet. I will have to just roll this one out and lay off my involvement in another area until he has a semi-independent science unit (his microscopy will be largely self led). Thanks for the book reminder. We have looked at it via the library and loved it. I just ordered it ;). Â You two are going to have a great time! Â After reading your post, I went on EM's website and read her bio. Â She sounds like a really neat lady. Â :coolgleamA:Â Â Her bio says she majored in drawing and painting. Â After looking at her curricula again, I think I'm going to buy her Botany in 8 Lessons for the 11 yro and 9 yro. Â Â 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
.... Posted March 28, 2014 Share Posted March 28, 2014 Wowsers, these look fun! http://www.periodicvideos.com  Those videos are awesome!  Thanks for posting the link and thanks to tjlcc for listing them in her plans! 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mrs Twain Posted March 29, 2014 Share Posted March 29, 2014 Wowsers, these look fun! http://www.periodicvideos.com  Thanks for the link. Those videos are great. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mandy in TN Posted March 30, 2014 Share Posted March 30, 2014 Argh! I was researching for someone else and now I think I want to change almost everything! The little guy and I need to have a sit down powwow and discuss what he thinks worked and didn't work this year. <sigh> Then, I need to talk to him about all the new stuff I have found. So, back to the drawing board. Mandy 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SonshineLearner Posted March 30, 2014 Share Posted March 30, 2014 We're looking at being home again next year. My son will be 11 years old. Oregon has a Math series that's online.. We'll do that for his Math (with my husband) He'll be going through that as my son is able... (Basically Algebra) Writing (I'm looking for an online class) Latin: I have many programs. Thinking of the Latin For Children Wordly Wise History and Science, I'm still deciding. He's listened to SOTW many times and has absorbed so much... trying to decide what we should do for 6th. Excited to look through the thread and see what others are doing :)  Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sagira Posted March 30, 2014 Share Posted March 30, 2014 Mandy, let us know what you're planning! I'm curious to see how it's going to play out. I'm excited about our upcoming year (aren't I always?), especially because we're going back to Ancients again, but quite a bit wiser this time around! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jilly Posted March 30, 2014 Share Posted March 30, 2014 Argh! I was researching for someone else and now I think I want to change almost everything! The little guy and I need to have a sit down powwow and discuss what he thinks worked and didn't work this year. <sigh> Then, I need to talk to him about all the new stuff I have found. So, back to the drawing board. Mandy  I have also decided that I want to change almost everything I had planned. My son has recently done some testing and I can see that what I thought would work will most likely not work. I guess it is back to the drawing board for us. Hopefully I will have a working plan before summer. :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alte Veste Academy Posted March 30, 2014 Share Posted March 30, 2014 If you guys change everything (OK, or anything, LOL), I beg of you to start a new thread. I was having an existential crisis when this one started. I'm over it now, but this thread has bad mojo for me. :lol: Â 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mandy in TN Posted April 1, 2014 Share Posted April 1, 2014 If you guys change everything (OK, or anything, LOL), I beg of you to start a new thread. I was having an existential crisis when this one started. I'm over it now, but this thread has bad mojo for me. :lol: Â Because of confusion and the likelihood that there will end up being two grade 6 threads running simultaneously, I don't really want to start another thread. Can you just start reading from page 2? :p Mandy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mandy in TN Posted April 1, 2014 Share Posted April 1, 2014 2014-2015: Take 2, modified 5/7Alright- I'm not changing everything, but I am changing a lot as well as coming at it from a different angle. I looked at Essentials in Writing for a friend, and I really like the looks of it! One of the big bonuses of using Hewitt's Lightning Lit was that composition was included, so I think it is out. I really, really liked the idea of using T4L as our git-er-done, bare-bones-minimum day, but I spoke with Doodle, and he has really enjoyed his weekly folder. It means more work for me, but I guess T4L is out. Doodle will continue with his weekly folder. (I also think it will sound more interesting if I start with writing out ds's other pile, then his core subjects, and last his folder work. B) )OTHERSince Doodle will not be using T4L, I think he will use Painless American Govt alongside Uncle Eric Talks about Personal, Career, and Financial Security- a sort of civics/ finance combo.I still want to Doodle to use Philosophy for Kids and Plague! Problem Solving for One. I think I would like to toss in Logic Liftoff and Orbiting with Logic.I plan to continue with Charlotte Mason style art and music based on what is at the art museum and symphony. He will continue with orchestra, violin, and mandolin. Nothing is changing here.Shakespeare: As You Like It; Tempest; Henry IV, Part 1I switched our Shakespeare plays because I realized As You Like It will be performed at Shakespeare in the Park at the beginning of the school year, and Tempest will be fully dramatized with actors and whoever wants to read at the library later in the fall. I then decided the third play should be a history.CORE SUBJECTSLanguage Arts Literary ElementsI don't want use the material from Hewitt's LL8 in case I decide I want to use it later. Instead of the anthology that Hewitt uses, Stories and Poems for Extremely Intelligent Children of All Ages, I am considering The Book of Virtues for Young People which I like. Well, I just spotted this thread, and now I will just use some of the short stories already suggested. Â Literature (fantasy)- Beowulf: A New Telling by Robert Nye (science fiction)- A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court by Mark Twain (biography) of Eleanor of Aquitaine told in a fantastical manner)- A Proud Taste for Scarlet and Miniver by E.L. Konigsburg (folklore)- The Adventures of Robin Hood by Roger Lancelyn Green (drama, interconnected monologues, some in prose and some in verse)- Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval Village by Laura Amy Schlitz (ballad retold as prose)- The Canterbury Tales by Geraldine McCaughrean (realistic fiction) The Midwife's Apprentice by Karen Cushman (biography) Along Came Galileo by Jeanne BendickMathI just don't know!HistoryEducation-Portal: High School, World History: Dark Ages - Colonialism lectures. ScienceScience Daybook- Earth Science (Someone here asked about Science Daybook. Doodle used one a couple of years ago. He liked the articles. He did read the pages referenced in Sciencesaurus, their science encyclopedia. Sometimes it prompted him to look up more information online or at the library. It is the only science we have ever used that he has quoted. He was engaged and actually completed the book, so, even though it is not rigorous, we are going back.) However, we also plan to use Supercharged Science's new modules: Light 1, Earth Science 2, and Biology & Microscopes.Then, I became nostalgic thinking of all the things that Doodle, as my last little person, has participated in so infrequently and decided that we would do a more out of the house science year. Our science center offers monthly science labs and our zoo offers monthly homeschool classes. I plan to sign Doodle up for all of them. I also want him to do some of the things at some of the local nature centers. (bird tagging, leaf collecting, and pond ecology come to mind) I am also considering doing a Landry Academy 2-day lab intensive.GermanOSU German 1FOLDER: Now, for his folder. I will remove the bindings from these and place pages in weekly folders. I know others use hanging folders, but I hole-punch the pages and stick them in folders with fasteners.MathUse it! Don't lose it! Daily Math PracticeLanguage ArtsArt of PoetryHolt Elements of Language WorkbookReading Comprehension in Varied Subject MatterVocabulary from Classical RootsDidax EditingEssentials in WritingGeographyWorld Geography and YouHistoryMilliken workbooks:Byzantines & Moslems Medieval Period 1 Medieval Period II The Italian RenaissanceTh Northern European Renaissance The Age of Exploration The Age of Absolutism History of Civilization ScienceFocus on ScienceWell, this is where we are this week. I think I am ready to start purchasing some of this stuff!Mandy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alte Veste Academy Posted April 1, 2014 Share Posted April 1, 2014 Because of confusion and the likelihood that there will end up being two grade 6 threads running simultaneously, I don't really want to start another thread. Can you just start reading from page 2? :p Mandy  LOL There were several threads last year for 5th grade. I know this because I posted to them all and then every time I made a change, I felt the need to go update each of them. It was a pain. :lol:  Now that I think of it, I do my best planning when I keep my blinders on to everyone else's plans, so maybe I won't read them at all. Maybe I'll just start a thread every year inquiring about new programs. LOL  Sometimes I like to pretend I have self-control anyway... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mandy in TN Posted April 1, 2014 Share Posted April 1, 2014 Mandy, let us know what you're planning! I'm curious to see how it's going to play out. I'm excited about our upcoming year (aren't I always?), especially because we're going back to Ancients again, but a quite a bit wiser this time around! Â Looking at new stuff is always fun! I just need to put on blinders and stop looking. :lol: Mandy, shockingly sitting at an actual computer and enjoying the little emoticons way too much :leaving: 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mandy in TN Posted April 1, 2014 Share Posted April 1, 2014 LOL There were several threads last year for 5th grade. I know this because I posted to them all and then every time I made a change, I felt the need to go update each of them. It was a pain. :lol:  Now that I think of it, I do my best planning when I keep my blinders on to everyone else's plans, so maybe I won't read them at all. Maybe I'll just start a thread every year inquiring about new programs. LOL  Sometimes I like to pretend I have self-control anyway...  haha- both typing about blinders at the same time! 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mom31257 Posted April 1, 2014 Share Posted April 1, 2014 Hey, Ladies! I'm in Ohio and won't be back home until Thursday night. I should have all my Memoria Press order by the time I get back, and I ordered their poetry and American Lit books. Â Language Arts is my biggest subject area to nail down a final plan. I'm also trying to make an entire middle school plan, so that may take me a while. Â I'm trying out Math Essentials and ordered a couple of things from CLE, so hopefully I'll have that nailed down soon, too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LAmom Posted April 1, 2014 Share Posted April 1, 2014 I'm having a really, really hard time deciding on history. Â I want to use TOG but just not sure it will work for us. Â I have searched highschool threads trying to figure out what people use in highschool for history and haven't really come up with much. Â My gut tells me to go to MFW but so many people make it sound like it doesn't work for upper grades (like 5-8). Â I can see the literature is lighter and good for my upcoming 4th grader. Â But, maybe the book basket has enough for her. Â Anyways, here is the start of my plans. Â Â Grammar: Â R&S6 Spelling: Â R&S6 Writing: Â WWS 1 Math: Â MM6, some Life of Fred Fractions/Decimals Latin: Â Finish GSWL and ___________ Spanish: Â Start GSWS Logic: ____________necessary already? Â Literature: Â ?? Â If not TOG, I don't know what people use/recommend. History: TOG? SOTW? MOH? MFW? Â Yikes!!!Science: Â Apologia or AIG. Â Not sure if Anatomy or Botany yet. Â Health: Â Something. Â CA requires it.... PE: Â She does soccer, dance, etc. Art/Music: Â ?? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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kristi26 Posted April 2, 2014 Share Posted April 2, 2014 All right, I just read through everyone's plans hoping for some History insights...I'm still not sure what we'll do, but this is my tentative plan for the new year.  Mostly I am unsure about the History part of things:  LA: Total Language Plus Caddie Woodlawn, Where the Red Fern Grows, My Side of the Mountain Pippi Longstocking, and Cricket in Times Square Math: Math-U-See Zeta Plus Life of Fred Decimals and Percents Science: Apologia Anatomy and Physiology (pretty sure he's doing this with our co-op) Swimming Creatures History/Geography: I'm considering doing Homeschool in the Woods Early 19th Century, Civil War, and Industrial Revolution.  I'm also considering just doing a geography year using some atlases we already own plus Geography through Art and some biographies of people in/from the different countries such as the Heroes of History series.  I'm still on the fence about it... Physical Education: I believe he will have a gym class at our co-op, but not sure... Art/Music: I'm up in the air about this...he may end up with art at co-op too. He'll do art with my dear friend who is an amazing artist! :) Extras: He'll play baseball in the fall and spring; drama club in fall-winter Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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