{"id":1989,"date":"2009-02-24T10:43:01","date_gmt":"2009-02-24T17:43:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/osbornz.net\/amy\/?p=1989"},"modified":"2009-02-24T10:43:01","modified_gmt":"2009-02-24T17:43:01","slug":"curriculum-choices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/osbornz.net\/amy\/?p=1989","title":{"rendered":"Curriculum Choices"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m in a Homeschool planning phase &#8211; and I know how much I like personal recommendations &#8211; so in hopes of starting conversations, here are some curriculum choices we have made for our current year:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>All:<br \/>\nHistory: Story of the World V1 (with extra work for oldest)<br \/>\nBible:  A mix of books &#8211; &#8220;Dangerous Devotions&#8221;, &#8220;Don&#8217;t Check Your Brain at the Door&#8221;<br \/>\nLanguage Arts &#8211; all the boys are writing books in preparation for a book writing coop class we are taking with our local HS group.<br \/>\nSpelling &#8211; Spelling Power<\/p>\n<p>J1:<br \/>\nMath &#8211; Teaching Textbooks Pre-Algebra<br \/>\nScience &#8211; A Beka Matter &amp; Motion<br \/>\nLanguage Arts &#8211; Reading, Journaling, etc<\/p>\n<p>J2 &amp; J3:<br \/>\nScience: Apologia&#8217;s Elementary Astronomy<br \/>\nLanguage Arts: Pathway Readers &amp; Workbooks<br \/>\nHandwriting: Getty Dubay Italic<\/p>\n<p>J2 Math &#8211; Teaching Textbook 5<\/p>\n<p>J3 Math &#8211; Saxon 3<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class=\"sharedaddy sd-sharing-enabled\"><div class=\"robots-nocontent sd-block sd-social sd-social-official sd-sharing\"><h3 class=\"sd-title\">Share this:<\/h3><div class=\"sd-content\"><ul><li class=\"share-facebook\"><div class=\"fb-share-button\" data-href=\"http:\/\/osbornz.net\/amy\/?p=1989\" data-layout=\"button_count\"><\/div><\/li><li class=\"share-pinterest\"><div class=\"pinterest_button\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pinterest.com\/pin\/create\/button\/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fosbornz.net%2Famy%2F%3Fp%3D1989&#038;media=http%3A%2F%2Fosbornz.net%2Famy%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2014%2F10%2Fcropped-poppy-150x150.jpg&#038;description=Curriculum%20Choices\" data-pin-do=\"buttonPin\" data-pin-config=\"beside\"><img src=\"\/\/assets.pinterest.com\/images\/pidgets\/pinit_fg_en_rect_gray_20.png\" \/><\/a><\/div><\/li><li class=\"share-twitter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/share\" class=\"twitter-share-button\" data-url=\"http:\/\/osbornz.net\/amy\/?p=1989\" data-text=\"Curriculum Choices\" data-via=\"Knitnmom\" >Tweet<\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-tumblr\"><a class=\"tumblr-share-button\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tumblr.com\/share\" data-title=\"Curriculum Choices\" data-content=\"http:\/\/osbornz.net\/amy\/?p=1989\" title=\"Share on Tumblr\"data-posttype=\"link\">Share on Tumblr<\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-print\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"\" class=\"share-print sd-button\" href=\"http:\/\/osbornz.net\/amy\/?p=1989\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to print\" ><span>Print<\/span><\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"#\" class=\"sharing-anchor sd-button share-more\"><span>More<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-end\"><\/li><\/ul><div class=\"sharing-hidden\"><div class=\"inner\" style=\"display: none;width:150px;\"><ul style=\"background-image:none;\"><li class=\"share-email\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"\" class=\"share-email sd-button\" href=\"mailto:?subject=%5BShared%20Post%5D%20Curriculum%20Choices&body=http%3A%2F%2Fosbornz.net%2Famy%2F%3Fp%3D1989&share=email\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to email a link to a friend\" data-email-share-error-title=\"Do you have email set up?\" data-email-share-error-text=\"If you&#039;re having problems sharing via email, you might not have email set up for your browser. 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LOLWhen it was just the two of us homeschooling, we would go out\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Homeschooling&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":646,"url":"http:\/\/osbornz.net\/amy\/?p=646","url_meta":{"origin":1989,"position":3},"title":"Randomness","date":"May 22, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"Lots of random thoughts ... ... Homeschooling ... J2 will finish 3rd grade on June 15 and start 4th grade 1 week later! LOL Poor kid! Actually he probably won't even notice! I'm going to do 3 to 4 weeks of school and then a break so we are pretty\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Family Life&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":2724,"url":"http:\/\/osbornz.net\/amy\/?p=2724","url_meta":{"origin":1989,"position":4},"title":"2 weeks down, 34 to go!","date":"September 12, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"So, we've done two weeks of school for J2 & J3....one week for J1.\u00c2\u00a0 So far it's been more positive than negative and that's good!\u00c2\u00a0 Every little bit helps! We start our day with Bible - we are viewing videos from Goodseed International \"Stranger on the Road to Emmaus\" and\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Family Life&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":3265,"url":"http:\/\/osbornz.net\/amy\/?p=3265","url_meta":{"origin":1989,"position":5},"title":"Hubs &amp; J3 back to school, J2 &amp;&#8230;","date":"January 4, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"Hubs & J3 back to school, J2 & J1 will return to homeschool routine & I'm excited to get back to the gym this am thanks to my MIL! 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