Old Year

A little planning and record keeping for my own purposes. This post and the next will change as I add/remember more. I find it interesting how people define their homeschool years or the seasons of their life. For me spring seems to signal the new year. We are wrapping up homeschooling and some of the topics start to seem old and drawn out so it's fun to think of the topics to come.

This year we learned more about the following topics:
Ancient and World History.
Teaching Company High School Level World History tapes, Usborne and Kingfisher World history books, Evan-Moor Ancient Times history pockets. Many read alouds from our own shelves and the library's, Drive thru History DVD's.

US history and Government
Getting Ahead US History
DK US history encyclopedia
Heart of Dakota-Bigger Hearts
variety of read alouds from home and library
Presidents lapbook
keeping up with election and current events
Dear America videos
American Tall Tales and legends-videos
quite a few historical fiction videos

Science
Biology, health, zoology
Rainbow Science biology
animals co-op class, planning for, implimenting, attending (depending on the child)
Getting Ahead life science elementary
Getting Ahead life science and human body ages 10-14
A beka health reader
many animals, habitats, and ecosystems books a couple lapbooks
assorted experiments from Stratton house science kits
American Girl books for health-dd
Working on badges related to health- scouts
using our microscope
Standard Deviants High School Biology
a few units from CLE science related to animals

Math
Teaching company basic math will finish in about 4 weeks
math U See pre algebra (will continue through summer)
Getting Ahead mathematics DVD's
Standard Deviants Math DVD's
Math readers, many assorted
CLE math (younger three children)

Language Arts
English 9 (Trevor designed from things we own, grammar, usage, literature, research...)
IEW writing
Standard deviants English-DVD
getting ahead reading and writing DVD
Evan-Moor LA middle grades Hayley
Explode the code #'s4-8, Beyond the code, CLE LA Colin
multi sensory phonics, CLE phonics, reading and LA- Tristan
Brian Cleary and Scholastic language arts readers

Music Appreciation
Listening to many types of music and discussing
videos about famous musicians and composers
learning guitar- younger three
music class- Hayley and Tristan

Art appreciation
Discovering great artists
looking up artists online
a couple DVD's about art and artists through the year

Other
365 days of celebration and praise
some co-op classes
skiing
planetarium visit
scouts
hikes and outdoor exploration
raised bullfrog tadpoles to frogs for the first time
puppy training
chess
swim lessons
camp-Colin
computers ins and outs and learned more about their workings