Saturday, June 27, 2009

WEEKLY REVIEW


Our new composer this week was George Gershwin, most famous for his Rhapsody in Blue. We are going to hang out on Longfellow for a bit longer, even though the girls have pretty much memorized the last poem. We finished up a couple books this week, and started a little fun book about the periodic table. We will just read a bit of it each morning.

Big Girl started her word lists in SWR this week. All the words are words she knows so far, to get used to the marking system and rules.

Big Girl read The Talisman, by Sir Walter Scott.

=========================

Saturday, June 20, 2009

WEEKLY REVIEW


Not too much new this week. We did start memorizing The Arrow and the Song by Lonfellow. Also, in our study of Acts, I decided to just read straight through Acts first, so as not to break up the flow, then read the rest of the NT in chronological order.

Big Girl finished setting up her log for SWR. We will start the word lists this week.

=========================

Friday, June 12, 2009

WEEKLY REVIEW


Back to school this week.  We started a new composer, Sergei Prokofiev, most famous for Peter and the Wolf.  We started reading Robin Hood for our Middle Ages history.  We all love it.  Big Girl read another version of it by Howard Pyle for literature, as well as a couple other smaller versions we have here.  She really likes comparing.  We also watched the old Erol Flynn Robin Hood on Netflix.  It was fun.

The paragraph writing book that Little Girl was doing was quickly getting very complicated, which makes sense since the cover says it is for up to grade 8.  So I have dropped that for now.  Not sure if I will resume some sort of writing exercise for her or not.  I said earlier that I didn't think she needed it, but I am not sure.  If I do, it will definitely be Beechick inspired, like copywork and dictation, along with writing things in a different tense, or from another point of view.  Nothing too complicated.  

I started Spell to Write and Read with Big Girl.  We haven't actually started the spelling lists yet, but she already knows most of the phonograms from when we did it before a long time ago. We did some pages in the log, and will finish those next week.  Then the following week, we will be ready to start the word lists.

We started our chronological reading through Acts, inserting letters where they fit into Acts, this week.  

=========================

Saturday, June 6, 2009

WEEKLY REVIEW


We took last week off, except for our read alouds, because so much has been going on.  We did start a couple new books for American History.  We are reading a biography of Andrew Carnegie, and I am reading a book called Toby Tyler, about a boy who runs away and joins the circus, to Little Girl.  Big Girl has read it before.  

=========================

Wednesday, June 3, 2009

WEEKLY REVIEW


It's been very busy around here, so I am late getting this up.  But better late than never.  Our new artist is American artist, Norman Rockwell.  We really enjoy looking at his work.  Our composer is Igor Stravinsky.  As with most of the moderns, we just do not really care for him.  I'll be glad when we start back at the beginning again with the old ones like Bach and Beethoven.  The girls will too.  But we have a few more moderns to cover first, for exposure if nothing else.  

We are still working on memorizing The Spider and the Fly.  It is the longest we have done yet.  We will finish in another week or so.

For middle ages history, we started reading The Magna Charta.  

Our current country for geography is Wales.  Not a whole lot to study there, and the library didn't have any books on it.

Little Girl did her usual lessons in everything else this week, as did Big Girl.  Big Girl has decided she needs more teaching on punctuation than what is given in her Easy Grammar book. So, after she finishes it up, which will be soon, I think I will order her Jensen's Punctuation.  It looks very good, with plenty of practice.  She has also decided that she would like to do some spelling work.  We think she needs to learn the spelling rules and practice them so she can apply them to unfamiliar words.  So I am going to start Spell to Write and Read with her.  We will just start farther in the book than you do with a younger student.  Little Girl did it for about a year, and I can see her still applying what she learned.  She is more of a natural speller than her sister though.  I think the start in public school with their whole-word approach to reading and their "invented spelling" ruined Big Girl.

Big Girl should be finishing up Ivanhoe this week, then we will watch the movie.  One of the older versions, of course.

=========================

Friday, May 22, 2009

WEEKLY REVIEW


Nothing new with our fine arts this week.  We will be changing composer and artist next week.

For American history, we have been reading about the start of cities, the San Francisco earthquake of 1906, and the Great Chicago Fire of 1871.  For Middle Ages, we read some spine books about Richard the Lionheart and John Lackland.  

Big Girl started Ivanhoe for literature this week.  She really likes it, and I am supposed to be reading it with her, but it puts me to sleep!  I might just read some Cliff's notes or something.  She also started her Lial's math.  So far, so good.  Just basic review at this point.  Her writing was about using adverbs and prepositional phrases.

Little Girl did all her usual lessons.  Her writing was about outlining paragraphs and using parallel construction.  She is actually doing better than I expected!  I am pleased.

=========================

Saturday, May 16, 2009

WEEKLY REVIEW


This week we finished up some books and started some new ones.  We started reading My Side of the Mountain, just for fun.  It is a really good book.  We started listening to Maurice Ravel for our composer.  He is much better than Ives, though not as good as the old masters. :-)  I guess we just don't care for modern stuff.

Big Girl didn't do any math this week, as we were waiting for the Lial's BCM I had ordered.  It came yesterday, and I have planned out next weeks lessons.  She just was not enjoying the biology she has been doing, and would have preferred to skip to the later, more interesting chapters in the book.  So I decided to just let her read through this book, with no questions or anything, and give her a half credit for it and a half credit for the physical science book she read through last year.  After she finishes, we will find some topic she is interested in and do an in depth study on it.  She did daily exercises in her Wordsmith this week, and the final assignment of the week was to write a restaurant review.   She did her grammar and vocabulary and is finishing up the Spurgeon biography this weekend.

Little Girl is continuing working through her subjects, as usual.  We have been working on outlining paragraphs this week, and will continue until it is easier for her.  She is doing great in everything else.
=========================

Saturday, May 9, 2009

WEEKLY REVIEW


Here is our week in chart form:

BOTH


BIBLE---Gospel harmony

POETRY---Mary Botham Howitt : The Spider and the Fly

ARTIST---Grant Wood

COMPOSER---Charles Ives

EXTRA READING---On the Banks of Plum Creek; My Side of the Mountain

U.S. HISTORY---Various books on the Statue of Liberty and Immigrants

MIDDLE AGES HISTORY---If All the Swords in England


BIG GIRL


KEY TO ALGEBRA---Book 4: P. 1-6

EASY GRAMMAR PLUS---8 pages

JENSEN'S VOCABULARY---1 lesson

LITERATURE---Charles Spurgeon

APOLOGIA BIOLOGY---Module 3: week 4

WORDSMITH---Week 3


LITTLE GIRL


MATH-U-SEE---Lesson 14

CLE LANGUAGE ARTS---LU 402: Lessons 13,14; LU 403: Lessons 1,2

SPELLING PLUS---Dictation list 43; List 44 words

PARAGRAPH WRITING---1 lesson

INDEPENDENT READING---Five Children and It; Abeka science 5; Vos story Bible; CLE reading story

TYPING---Practice


We are really enjoying Grant Wood's paintings, for the most part.  But we did not care for Charles Ives at all for our composer.  His music sounded pretty much like noise to us.  We will be moving on next week to a new one.  


I ordered Little Girl Paragraph Writing Made Easy, and we did the first lesson this week and started the second.  I think we will like this.  


Big Girl hit a snag in algebra again.  She got to the fourth book in Key To, and it just wasn't clicking.  She isn't making the connections she needs to in order to do algebra. So she looked at Lial's Basic College Math with me this morning, and said she liked the looks of it, and we ordered it for her.  I figure we can come back to algebra when she is about 16 or so, and more ready to tackle the kind of thinking needed to grasp algebra.  The Lial's will keep her basic math fresh meanwhile, and even looks to have some useful stuff she hasn't covered yet anywhere else.


=========================

Saturday, May 2, 2009

WEEKLY REVIEW


This week, we continued our Gospel study for Bible.  Heading toward the end soon.  We also finished up with Benjamin Britten, and will be starting a new composer next week.  For poetry, I did find another poet to study - Mary Botham Howitt.  We are memorizing her famous poem, The Spider and the Fly.  Our new artist is Grant Wood, known for his famous painting, American Gothic.  We are enjoying his folksy paintings much more than the last artist's abstract stuff.  We just do not care for abstract.  

For world history, we continued If All the Swords in England.  We were reading Little Britches for U.S. history, but I got really tired of it, even though the girls really liked it.  Big Girl is going to finish it on her own, and if Little Girl wants to read it some day, she can.  It was ok, just too long and detailed to suit me, especially for reading out loud.  Also, I just want to move on.  So this coming week, we are going to move on to the Statue of Liberty.  I think we all got enough of the Paul Bunyan book, so we just watched a disney video about him on YouTube. 

We really enjoyed The Search for Delicious, and finished it up this week.  Big Girl and I also really liked Natalie Babbitt's Tuck Everlasting, and finished it up this week as well.  For literature, we are going to read a Charles Spurgeon biography next.

Big Girl did her usual subjects, finishing up her 3rd book in the Key to Algebra series.  Her writing lessons this week focused on concrete and descriptive nouns.  

Little Girl did her usual lessons as well.  We did a few writing lessons in R&S, as planned, but I found out they are just not what she needs, and ordered her a paragraph writing workbook.  We will start that as soon as it comes.  She started reading Five Children and It, by Edith Nesbit this week, and she is really liking it and reading much more per day than I assigned.

=========================

Saturday, April 25, 2009

WEEKLY REVIEW


This week, we finished up Edward Lear for poetry, and will be moving on to someone else next week.  I am not sure who, though.  I am finding very few poets left whose work I like enough to want to focus on reading it for the length of time it takes to memorize one of their poems.  I am thinking about just choosing a poem to memorize, then reading from some poetry book each day. We have Favorite Poems, Old and New, and could mark any poems that would be worth memorizing as we come to them.  I think we would like the variety.  Also, there are some great poems I'd like to do, but the rest of the particular poet's work is either too hard, too boring, or whatever.

For our artist this week, we did Georgia O'Keefe.  She is famous for her abstract paintings of flowers, as well as skulls and bones of cows, and the New Mexico landscape (also abstract) paintings.  I wanted the girls to be exposed to her because of her fame, but we didn't really enjoy her paintings very much at all, and will be moving on to another artist this week.   I haven't looked to see who yet.

We continued listening to Benjamin Britten (at least, whenever we remembered to), and will stick with him for another week, since we are changing both artist and poet.  

We started reading about England and looking at the map and flag, which we put on our bulletin board.  It is hard to find anything that just focuses on England, and not on the UK.  We found a little book written in 1982 or so, that is really well written with some nice pictures.  Even if everything isn't up to date, it is the England that I want my girls to be exposed to, with the rolling hills, quaint villages and houses, and historical districts.  

For our Middle Ages History, we started If All the Swords in England, a historical fiction focusing on Thomas Becket and his time.  For American, we are continuing to read Little Britches.  Also, just for fun, we are reading The Search for Delicious, by Natalie Babbitt, because we like Tuck Everlasting so much.  She is a really good writer, and I love reading her writing.

Speaking of Tuck Everlasting, Big Girl and I read through the second third of it this week, and have one more week to go.  We used the Glencoe literature guide online to discuss what we had read.  Her lesson in Critical Thinking was Eyewitnesses and Circumstantial Evidence.  She did her usual Easy Grammar and math and vocabulary lessons, as well as continuing in Module 2 in biology.  We started her Wordsmith writing this week.  The first lesson was supposed to be to write a two page paper on "what I did last summer."  But since we school all year, I changed it to something that would interest her more - horses.  The idea was that it would be a very broad subject that would be too hard to write about, and she realized it immediately.  But I had her do it anyway because the book says she will be taking it out and working on it throughout the year.

Little Girl did lesson 12 in MUS Delta, and did 4 lessons in her CLE Language arts.  It is still really just review of stuff she already knows, so I am starting to skip lessons.  I noticed the next light unit gets into things that are new.  Something I did discover, though, is that she does not really know how to write a paragraph.  She can tell me exactly what one is, and how it is supposed to be, but when she was supposed to write one, she didn't do well at all.  She had two quotes that were unrelated.  So I decided we would do just the writing lessons in her R&S 4 English book.  It is just right, because the focus in this particular level happens to be paragraphs.  I am thinking of adding some copywork again, of good paragraphs.  We will see.  As for her reading, I finally decided to just drop the light units and let her just read the stories.  She was glad and said she really likes the stories.  She finished up Pinocchio this week.  Not sure what I will start her on next.  I was going to have her read Edith Nesbit's Five Children and It online, but I am not so sure I like depending on the computer so much.  I will decide this weekend.

We are still doing our Gospel harmony overview, and I really need to get planning what exactly we are going to do next.  I have a basic idea to go through the NT (excluding the Gospels) chronologically using Acts, like Veritas Press does.  Just got to get it all planned out.

=========================

Saturday, April 18, 2009

WEEKLY REVIEW


We continued looking at paintings by Edward Lear this week, and will start a new artist next week.  We will continue with him for poetry though, because there are many more poems we'd like to read, even though the girls already have The Owl and the Pussycat memorized.  Our current composer is Benjamin Britten, famous for Peter and the Wolf and The Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra.  

We finished up the "introductory" chapters 1-3 in our BJU Geography this week, so we will be moving on to the actual countries.  We will read the pertinent section in BJU, then stop and do a study of that particular country, with books we own, library books, websites, and videos, if we can find any.  We have a spot on our bulletin board for it, too, where we put the name, flag, map, and some pictures of things the particular country is known for.  Our first country will be England.

Little girl did 4 lessons in her CLE Language Arts (all but the spelling and handwriting parts), and we did the CLE Reading orally.  I think we will finish it up orally.  There are some good things in there I'd like to expose her to.  But I am sure we will not continue with a reading program.  Of course, knowing me, I know better than to say "never."  She also did her MUS, spelling, typing, and independent reading.  She is currently only reading the Vos Story Bible, Abeka 5th grade science book, a COFA book (not sure which one), and Collodi's Pinocchio, which she will finish up next week.  

Big girl is working through her Apologia Biology, 16 days per module.  This was her first week doing it that way.  The way I scheduled it out, she has reading to do 3 days, then looking at the extra book links on Friday.  She did about two pages per day of EG Plus, and is still working through Key To Algebra and Jensen's Vocabulary.  We are still working through Critical Thinking together.  I like the topics covered, but we don't always feel the need to do all the exercises once she has the idea.  She started her first book for our literature this week - Tuck Everlasting.  We read from a guide online about the author and the introduction to the novel, and then both she and I are reading it at the same time and taking notes.  Then, on Monday, we will have a discussion and read the pertinent notes from the Glencoe guide online.  I thought it was best to start with an easy, but really good, book.

We finished up our reading about Castles this week, and will be starting on the first Crusades next week.  This will be something that is hard to find accurate information on, I am afraid.  But we will see.

=========================

Saturday, April 11, 2009

WEEKLY REVIEW


This week in world history, we started studying about castles.  We are reading one fact book and one fiction book, Castle Diary.  I also have a couple other books with lots of pictures for the girls to look at.  

In U.S. history, we started reading Little Britches, and are reading the chapters in our spine for this time period.  We also started a big anthology full of Paul Bunyan tales and poems.  We are still reading On the Banks of Plum Creek, and we also are reading a biography of Robert Frost that I didn't realize we had when we were studying him. 

I am going to start having Big Girl do her vocabulary in one week per lesson, instead of two like we have been doing.  Also, we are cutting back the pages she will do in Easy Grammar so that we can add some writing and literature study.  I ordered Wordsmith for her.  She likes the looks of it, and so do I.  Also, we are going to start doing a literature study of one good book at a time, reading it slowly and taking notes and using any guide I can find online for additional discussion.  She and I will read the same chapters, take notes, and then discuss.  For her Apologia Biology, I am going to start planning out 4 weeks (16 days) per module.  There is no rush to get through it, as there are only 16 modules, and this will allow time to look up things on the internet and anything else we might like to add.  She also commented that science was much easier to digest in small chunks than in big ones.

I have figured out that the CLE reading that Little Girl is doing is just not for us.  It is pretty much just busy work, which we don't need.  I am going to keep doing the lessons, but orally.  At least until I get tired of it.  I may end up just letting her read the stories.  There are better things to spend our time on.  

=========================

Saturday, March 28, 2009

WEEKLY REVIEW


This week, we started a new composer, artist, and poet.  Our poet and artist happen to be the same person - Edward Lear.  He is most famous for his nonsense poetry, such as The Jumblies, and The Pobble Who Had No Toes.  We are memorizing his most famous poem, The Owl and the Pussycat.  We like his paintings so far.  He did a lot of Audubon-style paintings, and was actually compared favorably with Audubon.  His other paintings so far have been historical in nature with a sort of fantasy-feel to them.

Our composer is Ralph Vaughan Williams.  We do enjoy many of his pieces we have listened to so far.

In geography, we are still plugging along in the BJU book.  This week, we learned about how the economics of the world work.  Kind of dry, but useful information.  

In history, we are reading William the Conqueror, and will finish it up this week.  Also, for U.S. history, we are reading Thunder Rolling in the Mountains, a historical fiction book written from the point of view of Chief Joseph's daughter.  The girls are reading books on Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse, and sharing what they read each day with us.

Big Girl finished her second Key To Algebra workbook, and will be starting the 3rd one.  I had her start reading Streams of Civilization again as a review and to tie things together in our history.  She read the chapters on the Middle Ages.  

As for her Critical Thinking book, we both were getting very tired of the second chapter, which is on logic, with all the symbols and whatnot.  So we skipped to the next one, and figure if we need anything we skipped, we can look back at it.  The first lesson is on "probable vs. possible."  

Little Girl started her CLE Language Arts this week.  So far, I like it.  We don't do the handwriting, and we are still doing our own spelling, though I do have her do the spelling exercises in the book.  I won't have her copy the spelling words in a notebook anymore though. I like the variety each day, and the constant review of what has been learned.  And the way they actually use what they are learning.  She is continuing to read one story per week in her CLE reading.  Not sure what I think of it yet.  I do want to finish this level though, regardless.

=========================

Monday, March 16, 2009

WHAT WE ARE DOING

We took the week off week before last because we had some things we needed to get done. We were back to work last week.

We are currently reading the Landmark book, Custer's Last Stand, for American history. We are reading some of the spines and working our way up to starting William the Conqueror in Middle Ages this week. I don't know if I mentioned it, but I also subscribed to God's World News, to keep up somewhat with important current events from a Christian point of view. We enjoy those little magazines. We are continuing with Scott Joplin, Alfred Noyes, and Grandma Moses for music, poetry, and art. Will probably be starting new ones next week.

Big girl finished her first science module. We have been working through the Critical Thinking book together. Haven't gotten far. It is some hard stuff, but I know it is good stuff. Big girl is into painting model horses now, and she really does a great job! She has natural artistic talent. She has also created her own website where she has a model horse ranch, and posts her pictures and other stuff about all her horses. I must say, she did a great job. I love that she has the time and desire to pursue her own interests and to do what it takes to learn how to do them. This, after all, is one of my goals for homeschooling. To teach my children to learn for themselves.

Little girl has finished the Burgess Animal Book and started the Collodi Adventures of Pinocchio. It is another book online. I prefer actual books, but when you can't get them at the library, it is good to have the free ones online. We are also changing up some things with her language arts. We will continue to use the Spelling Wisdom passages, but she will use them for copy work one day, and for studied dication (typed) the next. We are continuing the dictated sentences from Spelling Plus, but adding back in the word lists. We will do one list (along with some review words) each week on the Spelling City site. She will work with them every day, testing and games. Then, the following week, we will work on the sentences for those words, plus the next word list. I like that they are common words that kids actually need to know, but I like the passages in the Spelling Wisdom for a little something more. Also, I ordered CLE language arts for her. I ordered level 4. She looked at the samples and said she really liked the looks of it better than the Rod and Staff she has been doing. She likes that it is a workbook, I think. I like that it has integrated review, and I prefer the writing exercises to what R&S has. We have only done a couple stories in her reading, and so far, it is ok. Nothing terribly exciting or anything, but not bad either. I have skipped a couple things and done others orally.

=========================

Sunday, February 22, 2009

WEEKLY REVIEW

This week, Big Girl started her Apologia Biology. We will probably be taking 3 weeks per module instead of two. We will take it as it comes. The first one is definitely going to take 3. There are a lot of neat links to visit in the bookextras section of the Apologia site.

We started studying Scott Joplin this week. His most famous pieces are The Entertainer and The Maple Leaf Rag. He composed and played what is called ragtime music, which was used in a lot of westerns, in saloons, and on player pianos. A lot of fun, familiar pieces there to listen to.

We started studying Alfred Noyes, and read his most famous (long) poem, The Highwayman. It was fun to discuss what the poem was really about, but it is a mystery, and we don't really know. We are memorizing his When Daddy Fell into the Pond. The girls think it is a fun poem.

We watched a PBS documentary on Buffalo Bill yesterday. It was kinda interesting, but I think a book would have been more enjoyable. Keeping that in mind. We also read a book about Annie Oakley this week. It was a fun picture book.

=========================

Friday, February 13, 2009

UPDATE


Big Girl finished up her thinking skills book, and started Critical Thinking book 1 this week. Little girl likes to join in when we do it.  She says it is fun.  Big Girl also finished her Abeka Physical Science book this week, and will be starting her Apologia Biology next week.

Little Girl has been doing great with her Spelling Wisdom dictation and Spelling Plus dictation which I have her type instead of write.  I also ordered CLE Reading 4 for her, and we just started this week.  So far, so good.  Not a lot to go on yet as to how much we will or won't like it.  

We have been reading Rolf and the Viking Bow in world history, and about cowboys in our U.S. history.  We are continuing to read the Little House series, and will do so until we finish, while moving along in our history.

Also, for history, I have decided to do an overview using various sources while we are doing our regular history.  Right now, we are reading through the ending of A Child's Story of America, then we will move on to world history.  I think we will read through the Synge Story of the World books online first.  Then, when we finish those, we will start over with something else - maybe our BJU 11th grade world history books.  I think the repetition with the overviews will be good, along with continuing our TQ for in depth studies of people and events.

We have added the BJU 9th grade geography book to our daily reading as well.  Right now, we are just going through the first parts about geography in general. Then, as we get to each country or continent, we will stop and do a study on it.  We finished up Australia and are currently doing New Zealand.

We will be starting a new poet and composer next week.  We love Robert Frost (at least, I do, lol), but didn't care much for Mahler, except for the second movement of his first symphony, which is really fun.  We will be starting Alfred Noyes (who wrote the Highwayman), and memorizing his poem, When Daddy Fell Into the Pond.  We will be starting Scott Joplin for composer study.  He should be fun, as there will be some familiar tunes there.

=========================

Thursday, January 15, 2009

SPELLING UPDATE


I have added the Spelling Plus Dictation sentences back into Little Girl's daily work.  But she will be typing them instead of writing them, and doing them as prepared dictation, like the Spelling Wisdom.  This will give her extra practice with common words, and I also like the way the sentences spiral, giving her more practice with individual words than Spelling Wisdom does.  She is doing great with both, and rarely misses a word.

=========================

Monday, January 5, 2009

DROPPING SPANISH


Well, we have decided to drop Spanish, for now at least.  With no real use for it, and no opportunity to actually use it, we can make much better use of the time it would take us to constantly review vocabulary cards and rules that we have no use for.  I know there are other benefits to learning a foreign language, but I feel that we can get those benefits in other ways that don't take so much time, such as root study.

=========================

Friday, December 19, 2008

"ANYTHINGARIANS"



"We have men who in the morning hear a Calvinistic preacher, and say, "Oh, it is delightful;" in the evening they hear an Arminian, and they say, "Oh, it is just as good; and no doubt they are both true, though one contradicts the other!" The glorious charity of the present day is such, that it believes lies to be as good as truth; and lies and truth have met together and kissed each other; and he that telleth truth is called a bigot, and truth has ceased to be honourable in the world! Ah! beloved, we know better than to profess such unlimited, but false charity; the truth is, we know how to "hold fast the form of sounds words," which has been given to us, because in this way we grow. Changeable people cannot grow much. If you have a tree in your garden plant it in one place to-day, and tomorrow place it somehwere else, how much bigger will it be in six months? It will be dead very likely; or if it does not die, it will not be very much grown; it will be marvellously stunted. So it is with some of you: you plant yourselves there; then you are persuaded that you are not quite right, and you go and plant yourself somewhere else. Why, there are men who are anythingarians; who go dodging about from one denomination to another, and cannot tell what they are; our opinion is, of these people, that they believe nothing, and are good for nothing, and anybody may have them that likes; we do not consider men to be worth much, unless they have settle principles, and "hold fast the form of sound words." 

—C. H. Spurgeon (1834-1892)

====================

Monday, December 8, 2008

PLANS FOR NEXT YEAR


Our official school year (if there is such a thing) begins in January.  Some things will continue the same, and a few things will be added or taken away.  As of right now, here is a loose outline of our plans.

BIG GIRL

Easy Grammar Plus

Jensen's Vocabulary

Key to Algebra

Critical Thinking Book 1

Exploring Christian Literature (with writing assignment once a week or so)

Daily Writing

Spanish (SFC & Visual Link)

Abeka Physical Science/Apologia Biology


LITTLE GIRL

Rod & Staff English 4

Spelling Wisdom

Daily Narration

MUS Gamma/Delta

Spanish (SFC)

Science (books of interest)

Literature - various books

Mavis Beacon Typing


BOTH

Bible (Gospel survey)

Poet Study

Composer Study

Artist Study

World Geography (country study)

TruthQuest AHYS 3

TruthQuest Middle Ages


==============================