History: We will be on the Middle Ages cycle and have decided to try Veritas Press online course. I let the boys try a sample on their website and they both loved it. We will also be doing our read aloud literature largely based on this history cycle. As it stands, our read alouds will be; King Arthur (Once and Future King?) Pilgrims Progress, The Hobbit, some of Martin Luther's works, and whatever else I decide to throw in.
The last few months I have been assigning the boys some reading from 'Famous Men of Greece and Rome', which I really like, so we'll probably continue their assigned reading of 'Famous Men of the Middle Ages'.
Spelling: J-Straco has recently started a new curriculum called 'Logic of English'. I really like this because it is phonogram based and The Princess can join us learning the phonogram and spelling rules, and play the games along with us.
Greek: I have not committed to starting Greek next year, but I am leaning in that direction. I purchased Elementary Koine Greek which looks pretty slow moving and painless.
Writing: I have been debating whether or not the boys will be ready for Susan Wise Bauer's next writing curriculum, Writing With Skill, and have decided to hold off one more year due to the comments I hear from people currently using it. I don't think the boys will be able to work independently for 45 minutes a day on writing. Instead we'll use IEW's Narnia based writing. This looks so good, I'm excited to start!
Latin: We will finish Lively Latin toward the end of the summer, and I have a few options I am trying to work through. First, we could work through LL again, to really solidify the conjugations and vocab, or move on to another curriculum. If we move on I need to decide between Latin Prep or Henle Latin. I have both already and am leaning toward Latin Prep. We'll see.....
Bible: Still undecided. I really love the Names of God book we are currently using, and am contemplating working through it again in greater depth. Of course, our History will cover the Reformation, so we'll have a lot of Bible History there, and The Principal is looking for a new bible study to do with the boys.
Now that i have an idea where we are going, I can schedule the rest of our current year so we end up without any gaps. Our goal is to hit the books hard through May and the first week in June, then take a couple weeks off before commencing summer school.
Since i have been so neglectful of my blog the past month, here is our last month or so in pictures.
The Princess turned 4!
She developed a renewed interest in her Rod &Staff Workbooks. She does her workbook every day now, when the boys are doing their work.
The kiddos performed in our church Variety Show. They played and sang 'The Cartoon Song' by Chris Rice. The were a huge hit!
Farm Boy turned 10!
Project from our Bible Study, "God's Names" by Sally Michael
We were talking about how God is our Strong Tower.
J-Straco decided to test out some of Archimedes' laws dealing with water buoyancy and displacement
He weighed a few objects, then put then in a full bowl of water and measured the water which was displaced. The weight of the two was equal!
They also made a 6 foot long Archimedes Screw which really worked!
We read about Alexander the Great and later the Library at Alexandria. The boys made scrolls like what would have been found there. They really enjoyed reading from them.
Farm Boy during his oral spelling test.
