Homeschooling

It's been forever since I blogged but I'm undertaking a new adventure and wanted to document it.  Because of Covid Patrick (10) will be homeschooled.  Virtual learning just wasn't working for him and giving him headaches.  My two girls (8 and 5) will be continuing with virtual.  My two year old also does virtual but with occasional in person and I supplement a lot at home mostly to keep him busy.  Now that I've caught up let's discuss curriculum plans.  I start Monday.

ELA

I really had trouble deciding.  We're definitely doing AAS because I got it to supplement and love it.  He's almost done AAS3 and we only started in May with level one.  I also think WriteShop will be a good fit for us.  Writing is an area of weakness.  I'm also doing a novel study with Johnny Termain.  I got a guided reading packet on Teacherspayteachers.com.   And for additional grammar or gaps parts of The Good and the Beautiful.  

Math 

We're going to try Teaching Textbooks with math games to supplement.  We'll start with a free trial so this is subject to change.

Science 

He wants to do Chemistry.  I got a course from Easy Peasy.  I also got some books from the library to supplement.

Social Studies 

American Revolution is up first starting with the French Indian war.  I have Story of the World to help guide us but this one is pretty piecemeal.  I may eventually break down and buy something on teacherspayteachers.com but for now I'm just using free things.

Health

I'm hoping to do a little lesson on fats and nutrition for all my kids tomorrow.  After that we'll be learning about the brain with plans for him to build one on Minecraft.

Music 

Private trombone lessons have this one covered.

Art

I got a lot of books about art history.  I'm going to let him pick artists to imitate or write about.  

PE

We're going to start with a soccer/football unit.  Followed by archery.  No real long term plans for this one.  

I really enjoyed looking back at all the things we did when he was little.  He's not as into pictures so expect less.  I might put something together about my youngest too.