Starter Plans for Year 7

I found a US History Timeline here at Wikipedia.

Kieron is my only older student next year, so I think I will use this or something like it as an outline and then fill it out with work from a variety of resources. I have a lot of them around the house.

I was thinking of trying Ray’s Higher Arithmetic with him but now that I am looking through it I’m afraid it will be too complicated, since the terminology is different from what I grew up with. Still, possibly…. also, there is an internet math for seventh grade here at AAAMath, and the Internet Classroom here to give me an idea of what to cover.

If I get too nervous I can resort to Key to…Workbooks and let him sort of pick and choose.

Latin — we’ll just continue Henle & Latina Christiania.
Greek — not sure whether to use Basic Greek in 30 Minutes a Day, or continue with Hey Andrew. Hey Andrew is so slow.

For Grammar, I want to get better acquainted with KISS this summer, continuing to use it with Daily Grammar.

For books in general related to history and literature, there is Mater Amabilis Level 3.

Does that cover the basics? I’ll continue to use Spell to Read and Write sporadically for word analysis.

Logic — either Traditional Logic, or Introductory Logic.

Writing will be the progymnasmata. In one form or another. I think I will work mostly on designing language arts & composition this summer.

Week in Review 29

Here continues my new recordkeeping method of linking to my random narratives of our learning day over at Every Waking Hour:

• Day 141 and 142
• Day 143
• Day 144
• Day 145

I know this is rather unlike the way I was recording for the first two-thirds of the school year, but form ought to reflect content and intention. And I find that different structure brings out different elements of the story.

The photo above is from my daughter's camera. The one below didn't turn out as well; it is a picture I took to commemorate my son's windchimes -- we finally got them out on the porch and now it really feels like spring out there.

Week in Review -- 27 and 28

I have been blogging our days over at Every Waking Hour (which I usually seem to do during the spring months when we become less-academic and more outdoorsy and relaxed) so I think that I will try to link to those blogs over here as a sort of weekly summary.

I have gotten so out of touch with my normal record-keeping that I am not precisely sure what week or day we are on, but am reasonably confident that we just finished Week 28, Day 140. I counted one day extra as "Life Learning" since we went to Thomas Aquinas College to visit Liam and we did have a very nice natural learning day though nothing formal.

So here goes.

second half of Week 27

• Day 132
• Day 133
• Day 134
• Day 135

Week 28

• Day 136
• Day 137
• Day 138
• Day 139
• Day 140