2015-2016

We will continue to go on field trips, go to social gatherings/parties, skate days, and PE with our homeschool group.  This year we have started a co-op for the first time!  Another first timer.....I have stepped into homeschooling high school!  There is always, I think, in the back of homeschoolers' minds that we are screwing up our kids..... a feeling far more in our face when our teens reach the high school years; at least for the first year anyway!  
We are off to a great start so far!  

Flower 9th Grade

Math: 

Tablet Class Alg. I (home) (Saxon Math last year was too incremental for Flower)

English 9: Literature & Composition

Fix It Grammar....(home)
IEW Writing theme book 1st semester....Elegant Essay 2nd semester (Co-op)
VHSG Introduction to Literature Live Class, 1x a week....(online) see list below

Literature: (one book a month) she will have her own personal reads as well to mingle in with Geography.

Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane
Animal Farm by George Orwell
Return of the Native by Thomas Hardy
The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde
The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy

The Time Machine by H.G. Wells
The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway

World Geography: Oak Meadow World Geography (home), Mapping class (co-op)

Environmental Science: Dive Earth Science (using high school schedule/set up)

Spanish I: (Co-op)

3D Art: (Co-op)

Guitar Lessons/Voice Lesson
YMCA Fitness & Health

Extracurriculars: Drama performances, Babysitting, Giving Guitar lessons, Volunteering at Farm, Ronald McDonald Home, & Children's Home.

Bambi 7th Grade

Math- 

Saxon 7/6 with VHSG

Language Arts-
Fix It Grammar (rest of Nose Tree then move to Robin Hood)
Writing: IEW Continuation Course B(1/2 of it...save 2nd half for 8th 1st semester)
Phonetic Zoo Spelling
Literature from BYL Geography this year....

Also using some MBTP guides for Animal Farm, A Wrinkle in Time, Esperanza Rising, Secret of the Andes, The Wanderer, Short Stories....

Lightning Literature 7 for All Creatures Great & Small. Variety is key for this child!

Science- Elemental Science Logic Earth

World Geography- Build Your Library grade 7 with mapping, cultures, activities, cooking, and literature

NC History (I'm teaching this) (Co-op)

Spanish Immersion (Co-op)

Cooking 1st semester.....3D Art 2nd semester (Co-op)

Speech (Co-op)

YMCA PE & Health

Volunteer: Farm and Ronald McDonald House

Extracurriculars: Babysitting, Fiddle/Voice

Thumper 4th Grade

Math: 

Saxon 5/4 with VHSG (He loves using VHSG!)

Language Arts:

IEW All Things Fun & Fascinating Writing

Fix It Grammar

All About Spelling 

Reading from a shelf of books.....cursive
MBTP guides: Morning Girl, Little House in the Big Woods, Stories from Africa & Asia, & Tornado.

World Cultural Geography...using BYL 7 (tweaked) Using these Notebooking pages & Atlas 
NC History (co-op class taught by me) See our blog for ideas

Elemental Science Earth&Space, lots of videos

YMCA Weekly PE, finish OM Health
Guitar Lessons

Spanish Immersion (co-op)

3D Art (co-op)

Cooking-1st semester; Sewing-2nd semester (co-op)

Continue taking care of his chickens & kitties, Volunteer @ Ronald McDonald House with family, Typing, Always building/making something with his hands.