WELL, HERE’S THE PLAN FOR DD10 FOR NEXT YEAR.

I’m purchasing items right now while I have a window of opportunity. Then we start school again, vacations, VBS, and my mad scramble to get prepared for the fall.

Co-op classes

Total Language Plus (5th and 6th graders)

Apologia Zoology 1 Flying creatures of the 5th day. (They’re beefing this class up for older kids, how I don’t know? But we have a backyard full of birds and the kids and my dh will absolutely love this.)

The other 4 classes at co-op will be p.e., math games, drama, and probably art.

Home classes

TOG Ancients Redesigned dialectic books

Classical Writing Homer B ( WDe finished homer A and rather than take off a year, I’d like to keep going. So we’ll probably do 2-3 weeks per lesson so as not to overwhelm her with the writing that she’ll be doing in TLP. If it’s too much for her, I’ll drop CW in a heart beat.)

Math Life of Fred, pre-algebra over the summer. Do a Dolciani’s New Math pre-algebra text for the next school year (1 or 2 years depending on what she needs). Then Dolciani’s algebra supplemented with Life of Fred Algebra to understand application.

Latin will probably be Latin Prep. I’ll order it in July. I do not like TV lessons outside of Spanish.

Spanish will, of course, be Fun Spanish 2. My dfil is translating it into Spanish as I type. It’ll take me a month to finalize the layout and get us a print out for school.

Geography We were going to do MFW ECC at co-op, but as of last week, I changed my mind. There were too many readers that would pull us from TOG. And I am really excited about using TOG and don’t want to water it down more than what we have to for us. So we’re using The Child’s Geography–not the one by Hillyer, but the new one by the lady whose name I can’t remember. The books look gorgeous.

Grammar We always do Growing with Grammar with Classical Writing. And that is what we’re going to do this year as well. However, I have come to realize that my kids need the big picture and that Analytical Grammar will be a nice way to introduce that to them. So for the summer we’re doing Analytical Grammar. But rather than purchase their maintenance books, I’m staying with GWG and CW for Language Arts.