And what are we doing? We didn't finish a lot of things that we said we were going to do this past year, but we're starting fresh and it should be a good year. I didn't do a post summing up our past year, but a lot of things continued through the summer. At least for Michael, they did.
Michael is now starting 10th grade. He got perfect attendance at his 6 am seminary class (sometimes through extra assignments) for the Doctrine and Covenants and this year they are starting Old Testament. Hopefully he's not the only one there! He is working on Life of Fred Geometry for Math. He is continuing a Literature course he started last year, as well as writing his book. For art, he is drawing and possibly learning new mediums. He is continuing piano. He is completing AP Biology, after a rough beginning last year. We are working on US history as a family, with age appropriate adaptations for different kids. He is also busy with Boy Scout advancement and church activities, as well as his movie making and Lego projects. We are still trying to find a good 2nd year Spanish.
Benjamin is starting 7th grade. He is working on Boy Scout advancement and merit badges. He is in Life of Fred Beginning Algebra, working with Winston Grammar, writing practice, Spelling Power, 7th grade Sonlight Science, history with the rest of the family, and any reading he can get away with. He is also learning piano, music theory, and we've yet to decide on how to do more foreign language for him. (in the past year he's worked on Italian, German, and more.) I think we're doing Latin, too, more because we have the book and it's something new to him than any other reason.
Emilie is borderline 5th and 6th grade. We're just not quite done with some of the stuff she's learning. She'll be doing science, some math review before she starts Life of Fred Fractions, and lots of writing practice. We'll add to her curriculum as needed. She's interested in languages, art, sewing, movie making, piano, violin, and many other things.
Nathanael is starting 3rd grade and is starting some serious stuff like grammar, spelling, typing, and writing. This will be interesting. We're going to try a new Life of Fred set of books on him and Samuel. If we don't like them or if Nathanael is past them we'll find something else. He'd also like to learn cursive this year. He is still doing The Head of the Class for basics and other fun stuff.
Samuel is also doing The Head of the Class as well as computer games, writing practice, and he is still requesting a 2nd grad workbook to work through. Again, we're adding stuff all the time at this level and it's worked out so far.
Timothy has discovered computer games and loves anything Magic School Bus or Blue's Clues. He's very successful at figuring out the mouse and the different alphabet and number games, as well as science and shapes and patterns. I'm not worried about him with kindergarten level work at all. We're going to work on writing with him.
Christopher also knows all his numbers, letters, shapes, colors, as well as science and other things. So for now we're just having fun and maybe learning to draw letters.
Liberty knows how to put pen and crayon marks on paper. We'll work on NOT putting them on anything else. She's also learning new words.
Overall, I feel rather disjointed and disorganized this year but everything is falling into place and I know it will work out in the end.
Don't remind me, but we're also starting Drivers Training come November...
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