April is the month when I start organizing and purchasing curriculum for next year's homeschooling effort. This is largely due to sales and marketing blitzes by the curriculum companies, but it's also a result of my delight in planning and organizing things. It's been a back and forth process, but I think we've decided to continue homeschooling our oldest. She's made some wonderful friends in the neighborhood and they all attend the excellent local schools. There was a real pull toward joining them, but the excitement of next year's curriculum has won her over.
Quiet school will continue much the same as this year for everyone but our oldest. She'll be leaving Switched-on-Schoolhouse and moving on to the Veritas Press Omnibus for history, literature and Bible, Saxon 8/7 for math, Shirley English for Grammar. For science I'm thinking of putting her in charge of experiments and having her create reports about the various subjects we will all be studying together. The other children will be working through either Horizons Phonics and Math or Switched-on-Schoolhouse Bible, language, history, science, and math depending on their age.
Loud school will be ancient history for everyone which will tie in nicely with the Omnibus material that our oldest will be working on. Science will be geology and astronomy. I'm still hunting up resources, but we've already purchased a fascinating course from the Teaching Company about geology. We'll continue our drills, especially Spelling Power. I'm hoping to work in some music, art and P.E. next year as well. The children are getting old enough for us to do some interesting projects.
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