Planning and Thinking

So, we all spend several weeks to months planning for the next school year and what we're going to use for curriculum. I have spent the majority of this school year planning for next school year simply because I'm going to be using a more unit study approach next year than I've previously used.

So, here's the plan for now:

Sixth Grade (YCJ) - The Prairie Primer for literature, science, art, and touching on all other subjects. Saxon math 7/6 for math. And America the Beautiful from Notgrass for American History. 

Third Grade (Peanut) - The Prairie Primer for literature, science, art, and touching on all other subjects. Seton third grade math for mathematics. And America the Beautiful from Notgrass for American History, modified because this is a middle school level book and she'll be doing it again in sixth grade.

Tenth Grade (ECJ) - Algebra 2 through Abeka books and backing that up with Khan Academy and All In One High School. The Lord of the Rings curriculum guide and books for language arts plus British Literature  through All In One High School. World History with a textbook and All In One High School. Spanish 2 through All In One High School and Duolingo work. And some sort of Biology with lab. 

As you can tell I'm more solid about what's being used for the younger two campers because we're still deciding if we should allow ECJ to return to a brick and mortar public school like he wants to do or if we will keep him home another year. He does well with using both text books and tech so we'll certainly be doing a mix of both if he's staying at home next year. I'm well aware that what I've picked out for him for language arts seems like a lot when you break it down but The Lord of the Rings curriculum is meant more for middle school students than high school level and I think that he'd be best served with doing both it and British Literature.

I'm nervous because we've never really done a major, all year long, unit study approach. Small unit studies for science we've done all this year and I do have several science books that range from Kindergarten through eighth grade that we'll be digging into. Probably starting with the Physical Science books that I have. We also have several math and language arts workbooks through until seventh grade that we'll be implementing to get even more practice.

We'll see what the new year holds and in August I'll be posting a definite list of curriculum that we'll be using but this is probably what it's going to look like.