our homeschool curriculum 2014-2015

School starts on Monday, and I'm finally looking forward to it!  I don't know why I was dreading planning so much this year.  Thankfully, once I was elbow deep into planning, I started to get excited.  Then, I was trying to decide why we waited until next week to start! :)

Amelia couldn't be more excited to start.  She was super disappointed a couple of weeks ago when I told her that we still had two weeks.  Meredith is supposedly "dreading" it, but I know she'll do great once we begin.  Claire is pretty excited as well even though she keeps telling me, "At the end of last year, I told myself that I was NOT going to be excited about the beginning of the year, but I am!"  Love it.

Amelia (1st grade)

Sonlight Readers 1 and 2
She started Readers 1 last year.  She has a few to complete, and she'll move on to level 2.

Handwriting Without Tears, My Printing Book

Explode the Code 1 and 2

Saxon Math 1

Spelling You See, level B

Harcourt Language Arts 1 workbook
We haven't done this book before.  It is a pretty simple little book, but I think she'll enjoy it.  I don't start them on their language arts curriculum until 2nd grade, but this will give her something to do and work on some skills.

Artistic Pursuits K-3, book 1

Co-op: performance, anatomy, and math/reading games

Amelia will be doing read alouds, history, and (some) science with the older girls.  She'll also be in gym class once a week, and we hope to find a swim lesson option in the spring.

Meredith (4th grade)

Saxon Math 5/4

Harcourt Language Arts 4 and Workbook

Spelling You See, level D

Explode the Code 5

Handwriting Without Tears, Cursive Success

Sonlight Core E: History, Readers, Read Alouds (American History, Year 2)

Sonlight Core E: Science (Electricity, Magnetism, and Astronomy)

Artistic Pursuits Grade 4-6, book 1

Daily Geography, grade 4

Writing, IEW's All Things Fun & Fascinating

Westminster Catechism for Kids

Co-op: performance, teamwork, and science 

Gym

Volleyball, fall season


Claire (6th grade)

Saxon Math 7/6

Winston Grammar

Spelling You See, level D

Explode the Code 8

Handwriting Without Tears, Cursive Success

Sonlight Core E: History, Readers, Read Alouds (American History, Year 2)

Sonlight Core E: Science (Electricity, Magnetism, and Astronomy)

Artistic Pursuits Grade 4-6, book 1

Daily Geography, grade 4

Writing, IEW's All Things Fun & Fascinating 

Westminster Catechism for Kids

Co-op: performance, teamwork, and science 

Gym

Volleyball, fall season

We are keeping a lot of things the same for the coming year, but we're also doing a lot of new things.  It's a good year for transition since we don't have any kinders this year.

Art, geography, spelling, and Claire's grammar program are all new to us this year.  Josh took the girls golfing each week all summer, and they both wanted to do volleyball this fall.  I loved that they both wanted to do those activities...make them much more easy to justify the travel aspect.  They are basically just participating in the practices once a week.  Claire was old enough to try out for the team, but she didn't feel like she had enough volleyball skills.  She wants to work on them this year and try out next year.  Meredith will have to wait patiently for her turn. :)

I'm looking forward to this year since I don't have to teach anyone to read!  And I love that Olivia is getting older and will sit and play/color/entertain herself.  She is so good at playing alongside her sisters.  She just loves being near them and watching them...monkey see, monkey do.