Next School Year

I have started to contemplate school for next year. Ugh............. I'm not even done this year. Anyway, I believe Tom will continue with his American History Study. By next year he will be into the Civil War and maybe beyond.

I'm not to sure about Science. I was thinking of starting him with Apologia Biology. 1/2 the book in 8th grade and the other 1/2 in 9th grade. This way he can really concentrate on each unit, study more and he would understand it more.

I was also looking at some writing programs. I think the one program was "Writing With Ease". He doesn't like to write and I'm believe he needs a little more structure on this. I have him write alot but I think something is missing. He needs to be able to flow into his sentences. Does that make sense?

He will continue with the Editor in Chief series and with vocabulary books. He likes the Vocabulary Cartoons and the SAT Vocabulary Books.

Tom is having a hard time with math; always has. We will be having math class throughout the summer to get Teaching Textbooks 7 finished.

I'm definitely not sure about Becca yet. It will be 12th grade. :(
I do know she will continue to do Progeny Press study guides.
Her troublesome subject is Science...we will get through this.........

Katie and Ana are the easiest. :) They will most probably be doing 365 Simple Science Experiments and the 365 More Simple Science Experiments. I will probably have some "simple" notebooking pages made for them. This way they can start learnig how to keep science logs.

I'm going back and forth with history. I was thinking of continuing the American History for them but my real desire is to start Story of the World 1. I loved doing this with Becca and Tom. It was the most enjoyable time when we were using this. We crafted, did some notebooking, did a long timeline, etc. We had so much fun. I still have their pharoah death masks we made out. The link to that is on the right sidebar "Our Egyptian Death Mask"....I think that's what it says. ~LOL~ I can't remember at the moment. (senior moment)
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I'm done writing about school now...it's getting boring.

Today was our Bible study and relaxing day. I am in the study of Revelation (Beth Moore) and enjoying every minute. I want to study this further.
After Bible study we go down to the cafe where the kids play and we have lunch. I had a good time talking with "Candy"...I enjoy talking with her every week. She has 2 little boys. Then, I had the pleasure of meeting another woman (I won't write her name because I'm not sure how to spell it. ~LOL~) Anyway, we had a nice conversation and she has two little girls Ana's age. Hopefully I will be able to sit down and talk with her again next week. :)

I need to go. I have to get dinner together AND, I have to start cleaning out my "dining" "homeschool" room. Ed will be putting in a new floor soon and he can't with 2 huge computer desks and table and tons of books in the way. (I have no idea what he's going to do with the piano).

See ya.
~Margarete~