This year has been a GREAT year! It is our 2nd year using The Good and the Beautiful and it has been our best choice in curriculum ever! My kids enjoy it…and I enjoy it! It takes no prep time and the stories are all beautiful and kind. I am kinda obsessed with Jenny Phillips and her ideas and her passion to help us homeschooling moms do the best we can and enjoy it too! I love her.
For Math, Typing, Handwriting – we have also stayed the same as last year because we enjoy the programs.
We stayed members of My Tech High this year (2nd year). It is a little pain to do the weekly emails (but really it is only 5 minutes max). Also, the classes the kids have taken from MTH they have all gotten sick of them by the end of the year and it is like pulling teeth to keep them doing the assignments. In fact, this year….we have kinda quit. They all have passing grades, but I don’t think that they could do another assignment (Trynitee’s drone also broke). But it has been great because we get money to buy things that otherwise we wouldn’t be able to. They also pay for any of the curriculum we use that is non-denominational. So everything except The Good and the Beautiful – but I would pay for that no matter the cost! (We love it that much.)
Also, our saving grace in homeschooling is our co-op!! We love, love, love the people we share our co-op with. There are 10 families and we all stick together each year unless one of us has to leave for some reason, then we find another family to join our group. This is our 3rd year with the same group and the kids love our Tuesday co-op day the best! It gives them the friend time that they love. It is a lot of prep work for me because each mom has to be in charge of teaching a class – but that’s another thing that I love, my kids learn from other moms and many times they are subjects that I am not teaching at home. So really it lightens my load! We all feel so lucky to have such a great group.
Tryn – 6th Grade
Language Arts – The Good and the Beautiful – includes Literature, Grammar, Vocabulary, Spelling, Geography, Art
Math – Teaching Textbooks, Math 6
Typing & Handwriting – Handwriting without Tears
MTH elective – Drone videography
Reading
Aubree – 4nd Grade
Language Arts – The Good and the Beautiful– includes Literature, Grammar, Vocabulary, Writing Skills, Spelling, Geography
Math – Teaching Textbooks, Math 4
Typing & Handwriting – Handwriting without Tears
MTH elective – Drawing
Reading – books from library
Ryker – 2nd Grade
Language Arts – The Good and the Beautiful – includes Literature, Phonics, Language Skills, Grammar, Spelling, Geography
Math – Math U See – Beta
Typing & Handwriting – Handwriting without Tears
MTH elective – Beginning Programming
Reading
With HVZA (home-school co-op group) – we do group Literature, Ukulele, World Geography, Watercolor, Being Honest (Trynitee & Aubree). Animal Science, World Geography, Five in a Row, PE (Ryker).
