Fun thread, What are you using/doing this year??

[CircleSlide]

So I thought it would be fun to find out what everyone is using/doing this year their home school year. I will go first. I have dd who is 15, ds who is 13 (special needs), and dd who is 11.

Learning Adventures Unit study (for my 13,11 year old)
Horizons Math (13,11)

Latin Road to Grammar (15)
Life of Fred Geometry (15)
Exploring Creation through Chemistry (15)
Psychology at MIT-free on-line course (15)
Rosetta Stone Spanish (15)
She is also sitting in with us for Lit. and Bible using Learning Adventures
US constitution/Government Course I found.

So what is everyone else doing, I only have 19 days until we begin and the kids are getting excited!!!

[NewWorldOrder]

Yay!!! A fun thread!! :thumb

This year I'm only homeschooling one child, my ten year old. My oldest graduated last year.:yeah

I'll be using:

All American History Vol. I
Saxon Math 6/5
Rod and Staff or Growing with Grammar
Reading Detective for reading comprehension
Total Language Plus for our literature study
Christian Kids Explore Chemistry for Science with our co-op
Institute for Excellence in Writing with our co-op

[Reason&Hope]

A Free online MIT course?! :faint How do you get that?

I'm homeschooling 3.

Son, 16, taking:
pre-calc at community college
civics at co-op
19th cent. lit at co-op
Latin IV
Apologia physics
Guitar
Volleyball at community college (I hope he does okay)

Daughter, 14, freshman, taking:
French at co-op
Consumer math
Don't know what to do for lit - she's on a waiting list
Apologia Physical Science
Greek history through drama at co-op
Musical theatre
Piano
Swing dancing
Pilates

Son, 11, 7th grade, taking:
Algebra I - special class
Beginning band at co-op
Electronics at co-op
BJU 8th grade US history
Lit and writing - oops. I don't know. :fishslap on myself
Martial arts - 3 classes' worth

Right now, they're all in musical theatre summer camp - which I'm running. After our performance this weekend, I'll be able to fill in the holes. I sure wish my daughter could get into the literature class at the co-op - she's a voracious reader and discussing books in class would be fun for her.

[CircleSlide]

http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/web/home/home/index.htm

Above is the free MIT site, COOL. I also bought the book she needs on ebay for $9.50 (including shipping so really cheap!!).

I also forgot to add my kids are getting their physical/health/emergency training from the Civil Air Patrol (CAP), they will also get to fly and learn to fly, which is cool for them. And my oldest is taking Guitar lessons and is playing in the orchestra.

I just spent yesterday organizing their school area, I bought some bin's and my youngest dd and I had a blast decorating them and placing all the school items in them.

Any one else?? The good thing about Homeschooling is you can plan when you start so some might be starting later. We like to stay on the same schedule as our local school because we live in a neighborhood with a bunch of kids and my kids would spend the day looking out the window when the neighborhood kids had the day off so we quickly changed to their schedule.

[topekaclark]

So bookmarking that pages for the free class.

I'm kinda still working on it but here it is so far:

Our 17 ds:

Math U See Alg. 1
Switched on school house for English
Zoology
US Government/Civics
Art at co-op
SAT studies

Next year all he needs is Alg. 2 yeah.........

13 dd

Light Units 8th grade math
Light Units 8th grade Language Arts
Geography
US Government (family unit studies)
Art co-op
Drama & choir


10 dd:

Light units for math and language arts
US Government (unit studies, when the kids go onto harder material she will be learning about the presidents & states.
Science unit studies with sister
Geography
Art
basketball
bible quizzing
Choir

4 ds:

Well he learns at his pace. Right now he is on a dinosaur and volcano kick.

All the kiddos are doing bible studies Genesis through whoops I can't remember.

While I'm here does anyone have a good website to explain how to average grades and gpa's?

[Reason&Hope]

Here's the best online explanation I found for calculating gpa.
The book Homeschooling through High School has a good section on this as well, and explains the difference between grading a regular course and an AP course.

http://www.donnayoung.org/forms/help/highsc.htm

[Witness4Jesus]

My ds will be in first grade. I wanted to do a program through the computer or DVD. I read a lot about Bob Jones DVD school. It sounds really great!

Has anyone used it and if so what do you think of it?

Thanks,
witness

[NewWorldOrder]

I found a place that offers free online language courses.

http://www.word2word.com/coursead.html

[My Abba's Child]

We're trying the Weaver curriculum mixed with Switched on Schoolhouse this year from Alpha Omega. Weaver SOUNDS perfect... anyone have reviews?

They have some interesting stuff from AoP! We've already gotten a caterpillar and watched it turn into a butterfly in the "habitat" we got from 'em, etc... they have the kit where you can watch a tadpole turn into a frog, etc... My youngest is in kindergarten, so he LOVED that! The other two were pretty excited about it too!

We're going to start in Sept. since we worked through the summer.

In His love,

[CircleSlide]

We used Weaver the first year I homeschooled, it was a fun program. I love unit studies!