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.