PLANS FOR NEW YEAR

Our "school" year runs from January to December, so the girls will be in "grades" 10 and 6 after the first of the year. We are really just continuing to read and finishing up a few odds and ends right now. Not a full schedule at all. These are our plans for the new year.

BIG GIRL

Lial's Basic College Math - will finish this book

Daily writing

American Literature

Our Mother Tongue - grammar overview

Streams of Civilization 2 - will read through this book

Spelling - will continue to work through our lists

Grudem's Systematic Theology - a huge book, but she can handle it

Various books for literature

Student News Daily online - I'd like her to start reading this daily

LITTLE GIRL

CLE Reading 5 (CLE is about a grade level ahead)

CLE Language Arts 5

Maps and Geography book

Life of Fred Fractions

Various books for science

Various books for literature

Possibly dictation, using Spelling Wisdom

BOTH

Daily Bible reading and discussion

Scripture memory

Poetry memorization and reading

Artist study

Composer study

Periodic Table overview

Cultural geography/country study

Various worldview books

TruthQuest histories (continuing)

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WEEKLY REVIEW

We started a new Bible memory passage this week. Philippians 4:4-7. The girls are still reviewing the "old" one, as well as each of them doing one of their poems each day.

We are going to be finishing up our Classical Karaoke for Kids book before the first of the year, so we can start back to doing one composer at a time.

I skipped quite a few artists that were on our list and we went with Pieter Bruegel the Elder for our current artist. His paintings are quite detailed and interesting to look at.

Our current country of study is Denmark.

We are pausing with our periodic table studies until after the first of the year, so we can finish up the Classical Karaoke book. We will begin again in January.

Still reading one or two poems a day from our anthology.

Still reading The Adventures of Jonathan Gullible and The Deadliest Monster daily. These two books are fascinating and contain much truth and much to think on.

Still reading Little Town on the Prairie a few days per week.

For Middle Ages, Big Girl is reading The White Company, by Doyle. I read from our TQ book and from Story of the Middle Ages spine this week on the Hundred Years War and various things surrounding that period.

For American history, we are reading White Star, a Dog on the Titanic. We will also be watching a documentary on the Titanic from Netflix, whenever it gets here.

Big Girl continues in her LBC math book, a couple lessons per week. She also does some writing on the computer every day, and we go over it together. She is still doing one vocabulary lesson per week, reading from her biology and history books, and is finishing up Chosen By God. She also did a spelling lesson this week.

Little Girl did her last MUS Delta lesson this week. She will do the final tests next week, then work on a few problems per day that I will print up for her until the end of the year. She will start the LOF fractions book then. She will be finishing up her CLE Language Arts 4 next week. Not sure if we will start the new level then, or wait. She has started doing a page daily in her Maps and Geography workbook again. She also completed a spelling lesson, and did her independent reading.

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