Curriculum

The main curriculum we are using this year is put out by Heart of Dakota. It is called "Preparing Hearts for His Glory". I feel God led us to this curriculum, just as he led us to homeschooling. Preparing is a history/ literature based curriculum done in the Charlotte Mason style. It is supplemented with a more textbook approach for Math and English. This year focuses on an overview of World History. It completely intertwines World History with Biblical History and shows how it overlaps and meshes together. It includes a History project every week, independent history study, a history read aloud, geography, research and vocabulary words. In the Language Arts department N is doing a year long study of the poetry of Robert Louis Stevenson. He loves it! He has been using a curriculum called "Growing with Grammar", but we have a different curriculum on order and will see if we like it better. He also does a writing curriculum called "Igniting Your Writing". For Math he is using Christian Light Education and he is doing great and loving it. He also is memorizing Bible verses each week. Science is done from "living books" and includes an experiment each week.

In addition to the above he is also doing a study of the 50 states that he started over the summer and is doing a vocabulary program called "Vocabulary from Classical Roots". With all of this he still has time to fit in fun things like the Unit Study on the Winter Olympics that we are doing now.

He loves being homeschooled and is eager to do school each day. He would start at 7:30 every day, but I usually push him off to around 8. He goes to co-op on Mondays and this semester is taking Drama, Tennis, Sign Language and Work Centers.

That brings you up to date with what we are doing this year so from now on I will post a weekly update and also plan on posting other fun things as they come up.