Home-SU-Cool

Blogging has not been easy for the past years, but I found it fun to still document some significant events 12th Grade: Big Sis Focus this year: college prep! Bible: study of Daniel with mom Math: On her own pre-calc/calc English: Analyzing and Interpreting Literature (CLEP) History: American History II ( Guesthollow ) Foreign Language: Mandarin (Integrated Chinese vol 4) Economics: CLEP Microeconomics/Macroeconomics Health: Total Health 10th Grade: Lil Sis Focus this year: Writing Bible: study of Daniel with mom Math: Geometry  (I got the printed workbook to make things easier) Science: No science this year English: Analyzing and Interpreting Literature (CLEP), grammar and writing from Excelsior U , reading/writing from history  Social Studies: Whirlwind History ( Guesthollow ) Foreign Language: Korean Health:  Total Health 7th Grade: Baby Sis Bible: Part of history English: Rod and Staff, kumon Math: PreAlgebra (Chalkdust), kumon Social Studies: Ancient Egypt , Ancient ...

  Yay for the first day of school 2024-2025!! Big sis gave little surprises for her siblings donuts started to be a tradition 2 years back Where we do school had a HUGE upgrade since last year. This is the girls' room, everyone has a desk. SOME of the school books in the corner shelf Most of the younger ones' school is still done here. And the materials on the top shelf above my table.

 This year I graduated a student and inaugurate another (report wise, anyway) and it's such a bittersweet experience. Big Bro will be a freshman at City College, majoring in Sonic Arts. It's an exciting new season for us! Here is our plan for the year. 11th Grade: Big Sis Bible: BSF Math: College Algebra (Clep prep), SAT prep English: Some assignments from Am Hist, and also SAT prep Science: a break this year! History: American History I ( Guesthollow ) Foreign Language: Mandarin (Integrated Chinese) Govt: Government ( Guesthollow ) We will do the Econs and Personal Finance next year 9th Grade: Lil Sis We have another highschooler in the house! Bible: BSF Math: Algebra II ( Algebrawithinreach , intermediate) Science: Chemistry (Jay Wile, with VHSG) English: Assignments from Geography, and Kumon worksheets Social Studies: World Geography and Cultures ( Guesthollow ) Foreign Language: Korean 6th Grade: Baby Sis Bible: BSF English: Rod and Staff, kumon Math: Singapore Math, kumon ...

 2022-2023 School Plan Kindergarten Wee Bro will begin MFW Kindergarten. I will expand the curriculum to more unit studies (for eg, S-Sun will also do some summer unit) 5th Grade Baby Sis (and Lil Sis) will do MFW 1850 to Modern Times, focusing on the Story of the World and some activities from the Student Activity Book. I will add in some lapbook components from Homeschooling in the Woods  (Industrial Revolution, WWII, Civil War) but perhaps not as much as previous years. They will also finish the president and state study. For Science, Baby Sis will do Actions and Reactions from Guesthollow . For Foreign Language she and Lil Sis will probably continue with Little Fox. For Math, she will continue with Singapore Math, and English Rod and Staff. 8th Grade Lil Sis will do history and foreign language with Baby Sis. For Science, she will do Apologia Biology (2nd Ed) at highschool level. For Math, she will do Algebra I ( algebra within reach  - Elementary) For English Rod and...

We went back to regular school this year (instead of year-around, school a couple weeks, break a week like last year). In general, it was better received. Tot School...3K...Preschool... Wee Bro jumped a couple grades this year. Hahaha...At first it was just a for fun school, then he learnt the alphabet, numbers, and got really really geeky about them. So we kind of officially started some preschool work for him. Then after a bit, we realized he might have to begin kindergarten coming August. *GULP*. We used unit study and it was real fun for me (hoipefully him too) But this boy enjoyed a lot more worksheets than others, so we had some workbooks and worksheets. AND...the daily sheet. He loved that. 4th Grade and 7th Grade For the younger girls, we did Exploration to 1850. However, I added more of the Homeschooling in the Woods lapbook packs. I really like the materials. We used the IEW way of writing in some of the lapbook writing and it was great! We still listened to the whole of the...

 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...

This school year is special. First, we ventured into different curriculum, while keeping My Father's World as the spine. Also, more importantly, it is the first year we are doing some kind of spontaneous schooling. Well, as spontaneous as this crazy control-freakish mom can take. Because of COVID and the quarantine, we figured we might as well start school, then take breaks when we can. We took May off, and here we are, June 1st. And we embarked on our journey to Ancient Rome. The last time we did RtR, I had a 1st, 3rd, 5th graders, and a little tag-along. This year we have a 3rd, 6th, 8th grader. And we have another littler tag-along. =) Here is the plan this year. HISTORY/BIBLE MFW is still our spine even though we are using some new materials. This is one BIG new change. I REALLY like this curriculum when I looked at it. Because I'm having all girls this year, and they all love cutting, pasting, coloring, I think this curriculum will be a great hit. We will still add in so...