Planning for next school year

Having to stay upstairs and rest this past week has given me time to start planning for next school year. A few weeks ago I ordered some History Pockets from Evan Moor and got an awesome deal on them from Amazon.com They have finally come in and I am so excited just like a little kid.

This year Anastasia will be in 5th grade, Joshua will start kindergarten, Savannah will be in preschool and Alexa and Natasha will be along for the ride.

I am trying to combine some things like Bible and some unit studies but it is difficult right now with the age gap. We are going to do some Character lessons together and they will do Science together.

Here is the plan so far for Anastasia:

Math- Horizons math by Alpha Omega Grammer- Daily Grams - Word Study and Phonics by Spectrum

Bible- lap book studies of Leviticus, Numbers, Deuteronmy, Joshua, Biblical Obedience, Who is Jesus, Biblical Responsibility These are all lapbooks from www.HandsofaChild.com

Social Studies/Science/Reading/Language- These will all be combined with unit studies and notebooking. Social Studies this year will focus on the United States- geography, states and capitals and history. We will use Trail Guide to U.S. Geography and Cantering the Country Anastasia will create a USA Notebook. If you are interested in finding out about notebooking there are a lot of sites you can check out. Here are some for starters: http://www.homeschoolhelperonline.com/notebooking.htm

http://www.notebookingpages.com/

http://www.notebookingnook.com/

http://highland.hitcho.com.au/notebooking.htm

http://www.com/notebooking.html

http://www.donnayoung.org/forms/planners/notebook.htm

http://www.holdthatthought.com/

History pockets as I mentioned above are a lot of fun to do. It gives hands on activities for the kids to do. You can check them out at Evan-Moor. I have The American Civil War, Colonial America, and The American Revolution.

Lap books we will complete this year are: All About Me, Disneyland, (we are planning a trip in September) Explorers, Story of Jamestown, Plants, Election Notebook, Weather, Planets, American Government, Forces and motions, Simple Machines

Joshua- We will work on handwriting, use Hooked on Phonics, Explode the Code, Horizons math and then we will do Bible story activities and memorization and story units from www.homeschoolshare.com

Now I just need to work on what our daily schedule will look like. I use Manager’s of Their Home to help with this.

I think these are most of the resources we will be using. I have this planned so when the convention comes in July I will be prepared.