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 For school year 2021 - 2022 we will have a 4th grader, 7th grader, 9th grader, and 11th grader. And we will have a three year old tagging along on the side. 4th Grade and 7th Grade History We will be following Exploration to 1850 materials. The spine this year will be: Story of the World vol 3 Exploring American History And Building a City on the Hill Some other books for read-a-loud or materials will be However, we will not follow the state report, James study, art, and music. Bible We will attempt to follow bible study from Bible Study Fellowship I don't know how it will work but I think it might be helpful. Science We will do Botany and Zoology, using the materials suggested, possibly with two other new homeschoolers as a mini co-op. =) Lil Sis will also do some other science as part of her 7th grade science. However, instead of General Science, or Science in the Atomic Age (Wile), she will listen in to Botany/Zoology (without doing the assignments/projects), while adding Earth...

Bible This week we did Bible memory James 1:1-11. It was great to revise nearly every lunch and after dinner. That is our family bible time. This is the hymn we enjoyed these two weeks. History We learnt about the Mayflower, pilgrims, and Miles Standish. The older kids did notebook pages on the pilgrims and we talked about the Mayflower compact. Some books we read (they have good realistic photos): We continued on this book. We finished "Squanto". This book is interesting (I forgot which week it was for). It helped the students (and teacher) learn about the kings and queens of England. It was a real mess and I had to research a while to understand which "Mary" was that "Mary", etc. Language We continued with Spelling and Big Bro had his first English test for Rod and Staff. We continued with Mandarin Chinese. Science We did Lesson 11 on ferns. Our area is quite sunny ...

Bible We began the memorization of James! This week we did James 1:1-8. We did good! Even Baby Sis was able to memorize some words! I tried this for one of the verses just for fun. The kids enjoyed it. This is the hymn we enjoyed these two weeks. We REALLY enjoyed this rendition. The kids remarked that the people are so joyful. History We learnt about King James, Jamestown, and the first pioneers. These were some of the books in the book basket. I saw Big Sis reading it. I have not always known if book basket (putting a bunch of living books in the basket related to the topic) worked, but I have seen many times the kids just picked up a book or two they would not have picked up at the library and read with much interest. The older kids did notebook pages on King James and Jamestown. I found some images of the 1611 KJV version of 1 Cor 13 online and gave them as a page. Lil Sis enjoyed making t...