Living and learning with the K-fam

Our Curriculum this year:

In our homeschool, we'll be using mainly secular materials.  This is a pretty big shift from past years, but as I'm secular, and i'm the teacher, it makes sense to teach from my heart and not to pretend to be something that i'm not.  Its important to me that we learn (I alongside the kiddos) about evolution and other solid science that we've neglected in prior years.  This is exactly what they will be learning about in college and I don't want them to be at a disadvantage, particularly if any of them decide to pursue a scientific path.

Back to curriculum, this year, as all years, I bought what I needed for school back in February when the tax return arrived, And since that time i've refined, rebought, and replanned.   i'm not great about sticking with stuff and curriculum in no exception.   So here's what we have planned- the (hopefully) final version 

Nik-11th grade:

Math- One on one work with his math tutor.

Life of Fred financial choices-














Language Arts-

Easy grammar ultimate series grade 11-

Literature-  This year he'll be reading one book every month, (in addition to his normal reading)  including a mix of classic literature:  Flowers for Algernon, The Book Thief, The Old Man and the Sea, The Great Gatsby, 1984, The Odyssey, The Chosen, And Then There Were None.

Writing-  Is included in his history curriculum. (nonfiction writing)

Foreign Language-

 Visual latin 1 

History-

History Odyssey Level 3 

History Odyssey is AMAZING.  I hope Nik is able to rise to the challenge because this is a very rigorous curriculum. I think he will.  He's incredible at both History and Language arts so i think this is a very good match.

Science-
REAL Science level 2 biology

Life Skills-

Health-

Intellego Health unit study

Planetary Stewardship-  I found Global Village School and absolutely fell in love!  I lamented that my curriculum was all purchased, but when I saw the Planetary Stewarship course, i knew that we had to make room for it.   Nik's in the home stretch and this is one of those critical "life skills" sort of classes that are of great benefit to him.

Critical thinking-  We are tentatively planning to use James Madison critical thinking course hesitating only because Critical Thinking is a strength of Nik's and we think it might be information already covered.  And lets face it.  He has a LOT on his plate this year.  So we might start out with it and see how it goes. 

And Finally-  Art.  Nik's favorite.  And I'm embarrased to say, we haven't quite figured out what to do for art yet.  I have a few ideas and will likely piece together a drawing course, but so far Nik is trying to decide if he wants to work on drawing the human anatomy or take a generalized course in drawing objects. 

Elliott- 2nd grade

Math- Mathematical Reasoning level C

Language Arts- 
Language Smarts level C

Spelling you see

Italic Handwriting

He'll also obviously be using a variety of readers and we'll be doing a variety of read alouds as well.

History-

History Odyssey

Geo Puzzles (or as Elliott calls them- G.E.O puzzles)

Blue Planet Puzzle


Science-
Book Shark level 1 Science this year is filled with amazingness.  We'll study Animals, astronomy and physics. I love how the book shark set is complete with all the experiment supplies and books and everything!  We were fortunate to have won this set last year, and i'm excited to try it out!!

STEM- 

Qbitz

Engino-  The one i've been taunting poor Elliott with since February... hahaha....

Art-  I've got a few doodling books and a fun art set from Timberdoodle, but the main part of our Art curriculum is Home Art Studio.   WOW.  So blown away by this curriculum.  I can't WAIT to get started!!!


SO,  I believe that's about it!  Feel free to post if you have any questions.  And if you have your own post about what curriculum you are using, please link it to me in the comments! I love to see what others are doing!!