6th Grade Curriculum Choices

After a busy summer we are getting ready to start our official 2017-2018 school year today. I look forward to having a schedule to go by. I haven’t had much time for blogging this last summer as we have had a lot of things going on. 

It’s hard to believe that my son is now officially in Middle School and a few months away from being 12! School is going to be changing for him a lot this year. He’s growing up fast and I’m proud of the young man he is becoming.

I have created a notebook for him this coming year. This is both his and my official training of getting ready for doing transcripts and keeping grades. This year I will be playing around and tweaking how I keep records with him.

This is what I tentatively have planned for him this year. He will be expected to be more independent in some areas. I will still do one on one with him in certain subjects and he still has some areas that we will do together as a family.

We read the Bible together at the start of our school day. 

We are also going to finish up The Gospels Drive thru History with Dave Stotts. You can see my review here.

A Boy After God’s Own Heart by Jim George and when he’s done with that he will do God’s Crime Scene For Kids by J. Warner and Susie Wallace. I’ll link to my review when it goes up.

Math is my dreaded subject but, Little Man is extremely good with math. He has his dad’s aptitude with math and can figure out problems quickly in his head. I have a hard time finding a program that fits his needs and I tend to blend several programs together and hand him over to Dad to do some math.

 Little Man has a few lessons left from Teaching Textbooks left from last year. I found that Teaching Textbook was too easy for him and we ended up adding a lot of reviews into his schedule. Regardless, I wanted to finish Teaching Textbooks up.

We will finish up Unlock Math from a review last year. I will also use Math U See and Math Mammoth- here's my review. 

 

IEW Poetry you can read my review here.

Bob Jones Writing and Grammar

Pirate Guide t’ th’ Grammar Story. You can read my review here.

I like that the following curriculum are short assignments that cover many concepts in bit size daily assignments.

Editor in Chief. Here's a link to a review I did awhile back.

I’m trying out some new curriculum this year.

Daily Grams

I'm still not done getting his reading list done this year. I'll get it up later.

Copywork from Homeschool Copywork you can read my review on it here.

We will also do New American Cursive - here is a review I did. He will also continue on with Calligraphy once a week.

The Grammar of Spelling and Spectrum Spelling

I’m excited to use Notgrass for history for the first time.

From Adam to Us. He will be doing the Timeline, Map Book, Student Workbook, Lesson Review, Our Creative World and the readers.

365 Fascinating Facts about Israel by Clarence Wagner 

Rand McNally Intermediate Geography & Map Activities

We are going to be notebooking with the 50 States and the Presidents

Apologia Exploring Creation with Chemistry and Physics

Science Question of the Day

I have a feeling he will participate in his sister's science of her study of Geology

PE-Tae Kwon Do 

Health-The Ultimate Guy’s Book by Dr. Walt Larimore

Music-Continue with his Guitar lessons.

4-H Photography, Rocketry, Arts and Crafts, and Food and Nutrition.

Computer Programing- We have a friend who is a computer engineer and a homeschool family. He is setting up weekly assignments using the Raspberry Pi laptop that they built this last summer.

Typing

Fundamentals of Photography

The First Hebrew Primer

We will continue with ArtAchieve you can read my review here and also with Creating a Masterpiece and you can read my review here.

It always seems like a long list when I put it on paper! I'll get Bug's schedule up later this week.

I pray you have a blessed school year.