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All Together Learning

 

 

We do 3 subjects all together and really enjoy our time with our kids all together {most of the time}.

• Mystery of History {finishing level 1}
• World Geography
• US History {YWAM Heroes of History, Liberty’s Kids DVDs}

Daddy teaches Mystery of History which is awesome.  We fnally finished the 1st book and have moved on to book 2. We decided to save ink and use spiral notebooks with the kids and this was a great change!  The love their notebooks and their notes are even better!  Plus – no more printing for me! 

 

Below you can see a glimpse of my prep time for book 2.  We use the Timeline Figures from Homeschool in the Woods.  I was printing, cutting and sorting {in baseball card sleeves} for our timeline notebook.

 

We still love our Heroes of History books.  We are almost done with George Washington. We are still enjoying Liberty’s Kids DVDs, to help deepen our American Revolution knowledge.

 

You can see our entire World Geography plan here.  Daddy now teaches this too.  They finished all of South America and are well into North America now.  Everyone continues to enjoy this plan. Below is a peek at Daddy writing the notes on our board and that’s a picture of Ladybug’s USA page!

 

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1st & 4th Together Learning

Ladybug and Krash do two subjects together and it is working well!  We do Picture Smart Bible {K-3 Old Testament} and US Geography twice a week.

They absolutely love US Geography and I think it’s because they both really love coloring and they love birds.  Seeing the bird for each state is very exciting for them!

We review all the states we have learned each day we do a new one, we use our USA Geography PowerPoint for this.  The PowerPoint show is a favorite and is really great for review.

We have added in a couple more resources to expand our US Geography learning.   The kids absolutely LOVE the awesome USA States song/video by Readeez.

We played Scrambled States for the first time and they really enjoyed it!

We also enjoy playing Sequence States and Capitals together!  If you don’t own this game and are working on states and capitals, I highly recommend it!

 

We are enjoying Picture Smart Bible together and have completed Deuteronomy/Joshua.

 

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8th Grade

 

Pac is by far my least photographed child because a majority of his schooling is done independently or with his Dad. I managed to get NO photos of him doing school at all!

He does spend a lot of time doing this, so this picture of him is totally accurate. He’d spend way more hours per day playing the guitar {or his ukelele} if he could!

 

He is a pretty easy student and we are thankful.  Sure, we have issues, but overall he does what he is supposed to do. His dad oversees his math, spelling and science completely.  I oversee everything else.  Writing is the only subject I am still teaching directly.

One of my favorite portions of his homeschooling is his reading.  He is currently Reading To Kill a Mockingbird.  His favorites are in bold.

Here’s his completed list…

• Peace Child
• Stink Alley
• Guests
• Amos Fortune
• Indian Captive
• They Loved to Laugh
• The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
• Elijah of Buxton
• Bound for Oregon
• Call of the Wild

All of his other subjects are going well, we are pleased with our choices for him this year.

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4th Grade

 

In order to stay committed to his gymnastics he doubles up on his schoolwork 2 days a week so he can be free to practice the other 3 days. He really works hard on his two intense school days. Below he is working on one of his poems from First Language Lessons.

 

Science with Dad continues to be a favorite.  He really enjoyed making a volcano, of course!

 

 

I think they were exploring waves below..

 

He continues to do Life of Fred Math with Daddy, at a lower level than his Teaching Textbooks Math {he uses level 5}. We do LOF math to help him work on auditory processing skills.

We are almost finished reading Mighty Men together, which is a collection of short stories.

He also reads books on his own at night and currently reading The Indian in the Cupboard.

His reading list so far this year…

• Robinson Crusoe {with me}
• The Shark Attacks of 1916 {independent}
• The Sinking of the Titanic 1912 {independent}
• Revolutionary War on Wednesday {independent}

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1st Grade

 

She now does the following subjects with her Daddy: science, Growing with Gramar, & Life of Fred Math. I teach her the rest of her subejcts. Below you will see a few highlights from November and December!

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Math

We do a few different things for math and our combination is working beautifully for her.  She continues to LOVE Life of Fred and is finished with book 2 and is enjoying book 3.

Spielgaben is a great fit for her and we do about 2-3 lessons per week, mostly using the worksheets.  See our recent posts here…

 

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Grammar

Growing with Grammar and First Language Lessons are both wonderful and she enjoys both.  We use both because they are different, yet similar. She now does Growing with Grammar with her Dad so I don’t have any action shots!

Here she is working on her poems from First Language Lessons{she’s using our Poem PowerPoint}.

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Reading

All About Reading 2 is moving along. She loves the games in the lessons. It is a GREAT fit for her!

 

Ways we supplement reading development…

We go to the library at least twice a month, sometimes more! Her library books are read daily both independently and aloud! 

Before we take books back I ask her to set out her very favorites and I snap a photo and share on Instagram.  These are some recent favorite stacks…

 

We finished The Dragons of Blueland, the final book in the series.  She LOVED these books!  We continue to read Little House on the Prairie.

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Writing

She has become quite the independent writer lately.  She loves her word wall folder and her try-it sheets. She uses both daily.

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Whew!  I think that’s it! It takes me forever to write these posts but they are my favorite to look back on!

Here’s our other posts from this year…

 

 

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