Homeschool in the Woods

We started a new history adventure today. I ordered this awesome unit from Homeschool in the Woods and we LOVE it. It comes as a cd rom you can pop into your pc and print whatever and how many you want. I was extremely pleased with the layout, the ease of navigation, and the user friendliness!

I love that it provides activities as well as notebooking and lap booking pages galore. I am so glad we decided to give this a try! It's very reasonable for what you get. There are about 25 lessons we are going to do our best to cover before school gets out. We got a little bit of a late start with our recent change of school plans but even if we take it into the summer we will enjoy it thoroughly. :)

Spring School Switch

We made the decision to move our family to be closer to my parents, therefore we had to pull the kids from the charter we were with and enroll in another. I had originally hoped we could scoot through the end of the school year but unfortunately that did not happen.

I went Monday to choose curriculum from the new schools selection. I was please with what they had to offer, as in addition to what I have on hand from years passed, I have a great set of curricula to finish off our year.

I feel I've been homeschooling long enough to have a good handle on what publishers work best for my family. I'm only a little perplexed with the math selections, as the school provides 3 publishers, 2 of which are not aligned to common core, and 1 that is, which is Saxon, which they did not have for the upper levels, and my 4th grader hated Saxon. So he's in a sort of bind. I am fairly certain we will scale down on the Saxon assignments however, and focus on learning times tables as that is imperative.

The following is a list of what we will be using from now until the end of the year:

Spring Curriculum replacements:
Make reading notebooks

2nd
LA: ETC, AAS or SP, WWE, PLL
History: Homeschool in the Woods and History Pockets
Science: Little House Nature Study
Math: Saxon

4th:
Math: Mammoth? Or just learn times tables
LA: ILL, SP, WWE
History: HITW/CA Missions
Science: Little House Nature Study

8th
Pre Algebra-Prentice Hall
US History-Holt
English-Writing Strands, Vocabulary from Classical Roots, Spelling Power
Physical Science-Oak Meadow
Art-site based course
Guitar-site based course

9th
Algebra 1-CK-12 flex books
World Geography-Holt
Spanish-Rosetta Stone
English-Site based writing course and Vocabulary from Classical Roots
Earth Science-Holt
Art-site based
Piano-simply music/private lessons

That's it in a nutshell! We are focusing on the art of note booking and lap books for the little ones. Lots of hands on activities as this was missing badly in the other school. Only 10 weeks of school left so gotta get er done while the gettins good.

Experiment with, TOG, EP, and HITW