New School Year Plan

Yep. BJU Press for just about everything this year – but it still took me forever to figure out what I wanted to teach, what I wanted to combine, and what things I wanted DVD or online for!

Justin-

                BJU Math 1 with Mrs. Lawson – We’re training Faith now to keep the manipulatives organized                                   and to get him started. He’s loving this.

                BJU K5 Beginnings with Mom – We’re almost done w/ Week 4. He’s eager.

                Explode the Code – (Take 5- as in child #5 to do this book) We’re on C and hope to make it through at least Book 2

                Bible Story Books – He’s really enjoying the Bible in Pictures for Little Eyes right now, but I have                                                a collection. J I’m hoping to sing with him every day too.

                Reading – I bought an extra shelf for the school room and pulled all the books I want to make                                    sure we read to Justin this year. I have LOTS of great science readers at this level.

                Speech – I haven’t set this up yet, but he’ll need this too. I think he’s advanced enough we might                            be able to get away with quarterly or longer evaluations. Hope so.

Faith – BJU Books Mom teaches – Math 3, Handwriting 3

                BJU Books with Samuel  & Mom – Spelling, History, Science, Bible

                BJU w/ DVD – Reading & English (until spring she’ll start Math 4 DVD

                VIOLIN lessons – after answer to prayer, and Gymnastics

Samuel – BJU Books Mom teaches –Handwriting 4, English & Math in the spring

                BJU Books with Faith & Mom – Spelling, History, Science, Bible

                BJU w/ DVD – Reading, English, Math (until Spring)

                And maybe Teaching Textbooks 6 in the spring

                Speech work – specific words and /th/

Hannah – History with Faith & Samuel, with lots of additional readers & God’s World News

                  Bible with Mom & Isaac

                BJU DVD – English/Lit, Life Science, Fundamentals of Math

                Spelling continued & lots of use of her new Spelling Corrector J

                She really wants to learn more about sewing. I can cut and stitch but hate machines. I’m hoping                                                we can find someone to help her.

Isaac – BJU Online Grade 11 with 10^th grade English and Spanish 1  - sounds simple but it’s lot of work for               him (not so bad for me.) – We still have some other grade 10 subjects to do, but will do them next year. It's cheaper for us to combine these subjects this year.

                Bible with Balancing the Sword (and Hannah and me), Ludy sermons

Everyone - Lots of writing on our Family Blog with both sets of Grandparents - We'll call this "Introduction to Social Media" :-)

Week 2 is done and I only have the high school Bible and lower grade history to add in next week. The first couple of weeks we go slow and spend time getting everyone used to the routine, where to find things, where to put things, and so on. So far, it’s going surprisingly well. I’ll post more specifics later in the year.

Isaac's School Plan

School Planning: High School

That would be Isaac. He’s in 10^th grade this year. Several of his courses are technically Grade 11. That doesn’t necessarily mean he’s a year ahead. He’s doing ALL his core courses with BJU Press Online Distance Learning. I’ve come to the place where I technically could teach these subjects, but I have difficulty doing them justice with the time in my day. I did feel a little bad when I found an old note from Isaac that said, “I’m glad I have a mom who can teach me algebra.”  We got lost in Saxon Algebra 2 and with its spiraling style I couldn’t figure out where we got off track. No biggie – he’s a 10^th grader. If at first you don’t succeed, try, try again!

Here’s the short version:

American History

Algebra 2

Chemistry

Spanish 1

Writing and Grammar 10

Literature 10

For Bible, I’m combining Isaac and Hannah and teaching the Bible Truths C. (A BJU Press book – but not the one used for distance learning.) He’ll continue working in Balancing the Sword and watch a lot of online sermons.

Other extras – a little bit of Rosetta Stone, a little bit of music theory & piano & maybe guitar, continue photography, Haiti trip, lead some P.E. days with the younger children, and spend some time at the gym.

I’d love to do Spanish 1 with him “just for fun” – I can probably do it through the first couple of weeks. LOL!  Ja, Ja, Ja!

I chose Online because of online grading. I’ll admit it. I have a very difficult time keeping up with the grading of high school subjects. I’ll still have “homework” grading to do and test essay questions and wrting assignments– but they tell me what things to spot check. J