We've Made a Few Changes to Our Lessons

Well, now that we are into our lessons a few weeks, we thought we would change things up a bit. Like many homeschooling parents, we always find something not working out for us. The nice thing is we can change. I know when we first started homeschooling, I was so scared to change the curriculum once we started. I felt like we were giving up, I was making things to easy for the kids, and that I was teaching them to be quitters. After a few years, I realized that when it comes to learning, especially the basics, you do what you have to do to get them to learn. If they need a different program, you find it! If they absolutely dislike a program, you change it. I realized that learning should be fun, not tedious. If children dread their lessons and school, it will turn them off from learning. My goal is to create life long learners.

So after being back to school for a few months now, we made a few changes......

Religion~ No changes here

Faith and Life 6 

Gospel of Mark 

Gospel of Luke

Baltimore Catechism

Classically Catholic Memory Delta Year

I do want to add daily Mass a few times a week especially during Advent. 

English~ 

Voyages in English 5 (Therese loves)

Voyages in English 6 (Michael doesn't like)

Editor in Chief  Forgot to order Therese her book, so we haven't started it yet

Diagramming Sentences

Catechism in Rhyme (handwriting) Writing Through Early Modern History 

Latin~ 

Latina Christiana 1,  Decided not to do it this year

Classically Catholic Memory Delta Year

Chant CD Kit

Math~ 

Horizons Math 4 ( I switched Therese back to Saxon 54, I do think this is the best program out there, Therese didn't like Horizons math and I found it lacking)

Saxon Math 65

Spelling~ Everybody changed

All About Spelling 4 Switched Therese to Phonetic Zoo Level A...We love it!

Spectrum Spelling 6  Too easy, so we switched back to Spelling for Young Catholic from Seton

Poetry~ 

The Harp and the Laurel Wreath

Classically Catholic Memory Delta Year

Geography~ 

Classically Catholic Memory Delta Year

Online Resources

U.S. History~ 

Classically Catholic Memory Delta Year

Pioneers and Patriots

History Study Time Travelers The Early 19th Century

History Study Time Travelers The Civil War

Science~ 

Classically Catholic Memory Delta Year

Online Resources

Fascinating Education Biology

U.S. State Study~ 

Library

Online Resources

Notebooking Pages

Bird Study~ 

Memoria Press What's that Bird?

Peterson Field Guide Birds

Peterson Field Guide Color in book

All About Birds website

Tree Study~ 

Memoria Press The Book of Trees

Peterson Guide Trees

Tree Book for Kids and their Grown-Ups 

Art~ We have been so busy we haven't even started this yet

9 week study of various artists.... George Seurat, John James Audubon, Georgia O'Keeffe, Grandma Moses 

Music~ 

Chant Cd Kit, Catholic Hymn Study Year 2

            Music from the different time periods we will be covering in history   

                 ex. Civil War, Pioneer Days, War World I & War World II

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