Weekly Wrap-up: Our Curriculum Choices

For the Weekly Wrap-up this week we are supposed to talk about what we will be using for the coming school year.

I have two sons: one will be in 8th grade and the other in 4th. You will notice that there are lots of subjects, but I tend to only have the boys work on certain subjects each day...only math, reading, writing are done five days a week.  Here is a breakdown of what we will be doing together and what they will be doing separately...

Subjects Done Together

*Bible and Life Skills with Plants Grown Up

*History with Biblioplan 2: Medieval and Renaissance

(To read more about Biblioplan, see this.)

*Geography withTrail Guide To World Geography (Geography Matters)

The 8th Grader's Curriculum

*Bible reading using this plan called SPECK

*Math with Math-U-See (Algebra I) and the Life of Fred books for review

*Writing with Institute for Excellence in Writing: Medieval History

*Grammar with Fix-It also from the Institute for Excellence in Writing

*Vocabulary building with WORD ROOTS SOFTWARE LEVEL A2

*Spelling Power

*Readers: Suggestions come from Biblioplan

*Apologia: General Science

*And finally, Spanish with Rosetta Stone

The 4th Grader's Curriculum

*Bible Reading with Day by Day Kid's Bible: The Bible for Young Readers (Tyndale Kids)

*Math-U-See (Finish Delta and begin Epsilon)

*Institute for Excellence in Writing: Fables

*Fix-it

*Getty and Duby Italics

*Spelling Power

*Readers: Suggestions from Biblioplan

*Apologia: We are halfway through Botany and then will start on Human Anatomy

*Spanish:Rosetta Stone