{"id":204,"date":"2010-08-02T10:18:58","date_gmt":"2010-08-02T15:18:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/aprendemos.yuriar.com\/blog\/?p=204"},"modified":"2010-08-02T10:18:58","modified_gmt":"2010-08-02T15:18:58","slug":"curriculum-time-is-here-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/yuriar.com\/aprendemosacademy\/2010\/08\/02\/curriculum-time-is-here-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Curriculum time is here again!"},"content":{"rendered":"

After spending the better part of the last month alternately researching curriculum ideas, and procrastinating, I’ve finally finalized… well, mostly finalized our school year.<\/p>\n

Math is going to be Math U See for all three.\u00a0 GeekBoy is starting in Delta, but he’s already whizzed through the first 3 chapters, and that only took him 5 minutes!\u00a0 So I have Epsilon standing by, and fully expect to be using it by middle of the year.\u00a0 As much as the Geek claims to hate math, he is a math whiz.\u00a0 ThePinkDiva is starting Alpha this year, and BigBoy won’t be very far behind.\u00a0 He still has a few chapters of Primer to finish before moving on to Alpha.\u00a0 The little guy is hoping to catch up to his big sister.<\/p>\n

For Language, GeekBoy is still working through the Easy Grammar 4\/5 book we found halfway through last year.\u00a0 Its been working well for us, so we will keep going.\u00a0 Since discovering thePinkDiva’s vision difficulties, we will be ditching Hooked on Phonics this year.\u00a0 I’ve decided to give Spell to Write and Read a try.\u00a0 It’s supposed to be good for dyslexics, which she is, and BigBoy will be doing this also since he really wants to learn to write.\u00a0 ThePinkDiva will also be continuing her work in Explode The Code online.\u00a0 She’s been doing pretty well with it, and I’m considering getting a subscription for BigBoy as well.\u00a0 Especially since I can get such an awesome deal on the program via Homeschool Buyer’s Co-op<\/a>.<\/p>\n

GeekBoy’s writing progressed quickly once we worked on correcting his posture and grip.\u00a0 This year we will continue working on “Pull, not push” to get him forming letters from the top, as well as lowercase letters.<\/p>\n

History will be different this year.\u00a0 GeekBoy has informed me that he has trouble concentrating when thePinkDiva goes off on a word-association rabbit trail.\u00a0 Since she does this a lot (it’s her way of processing information), GeekBoy will be having his own history lesson, using Mystery of History.\u00a0 ThePinkDiva and BigBoy will be doing year 2 of the American Heritage Studies by BJU. I’m planning to do time lines with each “class”.<\/p>\n

Science was a hard one.\u00a0 As much as I love the Apologia books, they seem to be just above the understanding of my younger two, and there doesn’t seem much in the text that interests my oldest.\u00a0 So this year we will do things a bit different.\u00a0 I got a subscription to AHA Science via Homeschool Buyers Co-op<\/a>.\u00a0 The kids adored the sample lessons, and we are looking forward to accessing the games and seeing what else the program has to offer.\u00a0 I’m also planning to pull random experiments out of this book Gramma gave us, 101 Cool Science Experiments<\/span>.<\/p>\n

For art, I have GeeArt.\u00a0 We’ve had the program for some time now, but I’ve never managed to get it together enough to get the projects done.\u00a0 I’m hoping to overcome my own fear of messiness and allow the munchkins to get messy, and maybe even get messy myself.\u00a0 But the biggest thing they will learn in the category of “art” this year — how to clean up their supplies!<\/p>\n

It should be a fun, busy year.
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