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I'm pondering what I want to do for next year. What we're doing is ok, but it isn't inspiring to dd9 or myself.
I need to get her excited to learn. Math is ok, it is sticking and she doesn't mind it. Science needs more fun in it, LA is needed.
Curious to see what everyone is planning.
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I'm doing grades 4 and 5 next year. I just blogged some thoughts about next year today -- in one sense I'm still pretty vague about what we're doing, though in another sense a lot of it's just sort of "the next thing" after what we're doing now . . .
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eta: I had some further language arts thoughts about 5th grade today.
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Also, here's a post I wrote recently about scheduling our day in big (but flexible and movable) blocks.
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I am planning 5th for my son....
There are some things we will just continue- like RS Math, Life of Fred, Family Formation for religion, and Home Art Studio for art.
We will begin our US history studies using Stories of the Americas and lots of living books, plus the history dvds from Homeschool in the Woods. These add such a nice hands-on aspect to learning about history. We are finishing up the New World Explorer dvd this spring, and I am happy with it.
I find that many "hands on" programs really mean crossword puzzles, word searches and fill in the blank type busywork. That was the case for the Apologia journal we tried for Flying Creatures, and my dc did not like that. The Explorer dvd we are using now has more projects that require making/doing/building, which is very boy friendly.
For science... well, I read a blog post a couple of months ago about a mom who said she had officially given up using any formal program for science. Instead she was having her boys read and narrate lots of living science books. Period.
I like that idea, and I plan to have my dc read and narrate much more for science next year. Nothing ever beats a good story. In addition, I like books like Fizz, Bubble and Flash, which we are working through this year. The lessons are short and fun and have plenty of good info for the elementary years, plus the experiments generally work well.
Having said that, we will also continue subscribing to The Happy Scientist.
My kids learn more from Robert Krampf in 15 minutes than they would from hours slogging through any textbook.
What I like about RK is that the kids get to see/hear/live the information with him. He films his mistakes and trial runs and show them as bloopers. He encourages the kids to try things different ways to see what will happen. He always knocks over the row of stacked cans, pops the ballon and throws the rock that starts the big rock slide. He is alike a living Ms. Frizzle. 
My kids think any time spent with him is a treat. And it spurs them to recreate the experiments. Yesterday they lit and ate candles (yes, lit and ate them), and we made a movie of this to send out for April Fool's Day.... all thanks to the Happy Scientist.
I am still considering grammar choices.... we have been using the CHC grammar books, but I don't know if I will continue that next year. We are currently reading Grammarland, which has been great- wish I could find more like that for next year....
And foreign language... I would like to start Latin... kids not so much.
Hmm... still thinking there, too.
We have been taking baby steps all this year with written narration, so I hope to step that up next year. My ds really likes to write on the computer since it shows him all his spelling errors right away and he can fix them.
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My oldest is in 5th this year. We are doing Classically Catholic Memory as a co-op, but at home this is what we've been doing this year.
Math - Teaching Textbooks (he's finishing up 7 and will start with Pre-Algebra next week)
History - Story of the World Modern Times with Stories of America Volume 2 (from Simply Charlotte Mason) and various living books (that I pull from the SCM Free Curriculum Guide)
Geography - Geography: A Literature Approach (the Beautiful Feet Guide that uses the HC Holling books)
Science - Noeo Biology II
Language Arts - Learning Language Arts through Literature; dictation using Spelling Wisdom from SCM
Language - Rosetta Stone Korean
Religion - along with the living books we read, he's doing Faith and Life online from My Catholic Faith Delivered.
The once a week stuff - Whitman for Poetry, Monet for Artist Study, Midsummer Night's Dream for Shakespeare, and nature study (he's been sketching a lot this year).
Along with that, my he does written narrations on his blog and he keeps a timeline book.
That's it...off the top of my head.
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Just started planning:
History:U.S. History from Civil war to present (found on Saxonhomeschool.hmhco.com)
Grammar: Saxon grammar or Houghton Mifflin (saxonhomeschool.hmhco.com)
Writing comp: will get one of the texts from saxonhomeschool.hmhco.com
literature: Kolbe elementary lit set (Plus something else)
Saxon Math 6/5
spanish: maybe start him on Fluenz
Science - local homeshool science class
Religion: seton's 5th grade
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