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Monday, August 27, 2018

Our 6th Grade Curriculum | 2018-2019

I don't think I can ever praise Sonlight highly enough for what it has done to transform our schooling into something we can all be excited about.  The love for reading it has cultivated in my girls makes me overjoyed.  This year we're especially excited to be in the Eastern Hemisphere core.  The idea of learning about and praying through the 10/40 window of those unreached with the gospel has us all excited.  We have so many good books just sitting on the shelf waiting for us to read that I know it will be another great year.  


Here's what we're doing for our 6th Grade Curriculum...
  • Bible: Bible Study Guide for All Ages, Case for Kids, How to Study Your Bible for Kids
  • Math: Math U See - Zeta
  • Language Arts: Essentials in Writing - Level 7 
  • Spelling: All About Spelling - Level 6
  • Grammar: Grammar for the Well Trained Mind - Level 1
  • Reading: Library Books & Sonlight Readers
  • History: Sonlight Core F - Eastern Hemisphere
  • Science: - Noeo Chemistry 2
  • Vocabulary:  Wordly Wise 3000 - Level 6
  • Logic: Orbiting with Logic
  • Language: Sign Language Made Simple
  • PE: Golf, Swimming, Hiking
  • Music: Piano Lessons    
  • Art: Art Classes 

Sonlight F - Eastern Hemisphere - History, Bible, and Literature.  Look at all the amazing books!!!  There are quite a few missionary stories this year which we all LOVE, and also quite a few of the girls readers which I can't wait to read as well. 

NOEO Chemistry 2 - So many fun experiments to do this year.  Not pictured is the core science book the Science Encyclopedia that we will use from last year.

Math-U-See - Zeta.  Fractions went so smoothly last year.  I kept waiting to get stuck and have them feel defeated or complain about how hard it was.  Nope, smooth sailing thanks to this amazing program and it's mastery approach to math.  Hoping we have another great year with those pesky decimals and percents.

Language Arts this year is pretty much staying the same though we've dropped handwriting and finished writing with ease.  I'm really excited about our new Grammar program which is a continuation of First Language Lessons but for middle school.  It uses the same definitions and examples but goes more in depth.  We also decided to skip Essentials in Writing 6 and jump straight into 7.  Since we have such a good grammar program we found all the worksheets for the first half of the year in Essentials to be a bit too easy and boring so 7 will remove much of that review and jump into writing assignments much earlier.  We still love All About Spelling so we'll continue on with that.

Just a few of our electives this year.  We have absolutely loved going though Bible Study Guide for All Ages.  We're now half way through the entire Bible with 2 years left.  We do it 3 days a week and then Case for Kids will be 1 day a week, and on Friday's the girls will do a lesson each week in Kay Arthur's How to Study Your Bible for Kids.  We're still doing Logic, ASL, Art Classes, and Piano Lessons.

Let the 6th Grade year commence!!!

Friday, August 24, 2018

First Day of 6th Grade | 2018-2019

Another summer has flown by and we're jumping in feet first to our first year of middle school.  How did I become a homeschool mom of middle schoolers?  We started school on Monday and put in an amazing first week that went from being dreaded to a wonderful week with excitement about all that we're going to be learning this year.  I love that we always start out a bit hesitant and unready to give up our summer but after only a few days each year we're happy about the routine and all our new books get us excited about what's to come. 

With that said, I'm always in awe of how absolutely grown up these girls look each year.  In addition to how much older they look, they have been growing like weeds this past year.  They have each grown 3 inches since the start of school last year.  Brin is still just about 2" taller than her sister which Av swears she'll catch up with. 


And because it's always fun to see them grow, here's all our years homeschooling and how much they have grown and changed through the process.  I can't believe we've been doing this for 8 years!!!
 
Avalyn - Preschool - 6th Grade
 Brinley - Preschool - 6th Grade