Planning: The Big Kids!

I am looking forward to this year.

I have been busy planning away. I am not sure we will accomplish it all, but I know we will accomplish nothing if I at least don't start with a plan.....

So here goes:

Nathaniel is almost 12, 6th grade!

Isabel is 9, 4th grade, and
Julianne is 7, 2nd grade: First Holy Communion year!

Things have been sorta planned in the past. But haphazard happens!

History/Geography:

We will be exploring the Eastern Hemisphere with Sonlight. This is the very first core I bought from Sonlight. Catherine did it a few years ago. I am looking forward to going through it again with the littles.

Science:

We will be studying Anatomy and Nutrition. I plan to use CHC's My Temple of the Holy Spirit as a great jumping point for Anatomy. Again, this is one of the first things I used when I began homeschooling 12 years ago (gasp!). I will also be using Intellego Unit Studies' Life Science: Human Body program. I picked this up at the local Homeschool Conference this past June. It looked really interesting; we shall see!

For Nutrition we will be studying the daily food recommendations. My plan is to have each one eventually plan a week's worth of meals and snacks, along with comparison shopping within the budget. I am hoping this works out well and they can start taking over some of the meal planning around here!

I am sure we will also be studying lots of animals and other science-y stuff to go along with our history and geography.

Language Arts:

Nathaniel and Isabel will be using Rod and Staffs English 4. I think this will be sufficient with the writing assignments to be done for History.

Julianne will be finishing MCP Phonics B.

We will also be working with Karen Andreola's Simply Grammar

Religion/Catechism:

I am planning to have the children read their grades' Faith and Life book. We will also be working on the Baltimore Catechism together.

I am also looking to do more celebrating the liturgical year stuff, I love to see what others are doing and hope to incorporate more this year. I am also hoping to complete some of the Catholic Lapbooks I have. We have done a couple and I am hoping to get more done this year. The littles liked doing the ones on The Year for Priests and the one for St Paul.

Extras:

Yeah - extras. The plan:

Art: we need to finish the M is for Masterpiece book. We all enjoyed working projects to go with each letter. Definitely a priority this year.

Music: I am hoping to do something with classical music. I have Beautiful Feet's History of Classical Music with all the resources. If nothing else, I hope to get through all the Music Masters CD's I have.

 

They are great for trips in the car!

 

 Isabel and Julianne have requested to work on Beautiful Feet's History of the Horse study. Horses are a passion for my girls, so I am hoping to get this scheduled at least once a week to give them something they truly enjoy working on.

I need to put the finishing touches on the plan for Catherine - she is in a class all by herself!