Teaching This Year

I know it may not be super interesting to some, but I am posting my outline to teaching my boys this year.  Warning:  Super long post...sorry.

It helps me keep track, and maybe it might help ideas for you, or something.  :) (the links are for your reference, not because I make money from them...because I don't.)

Grade 9: My Oldest

English

• Book study - The Hiding Place, My Mothers Secret, "Fake" Holocaust links (1 & 2)                  - Compare and contrast with opinion on what really happened.  Maybe watch a movie like Schindler's List After.
  -Beowulf or The Last of the Mohican's 
• Vocabulary Book C (BJU) - Bi-weekly
• Wordsmith Craftsman - Weekly
• Daily Grams - Daily
• Reading Detective - Weekly
  - Stop & Jot
  - Photo of the day for storytelling/creative writing - weekly on blog
  - 7 Steps to a Perfect story, then write me a story.
• Spelling Bee - weekly (use the 100 words for HS)
• Journaling on blog - at least weekly

Math

• Teaching Textbooks

Typing

• Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing

Misc "Home" Skills

• Money Management for teens - bi-weekly

Art

• Once weekly art class with co-op
• 52 weeks of drawing prompts
  OR
• Drawing Lab

Science

• Once weekly class with co-op (I am teaching)

Home Ec

• Once weekly class with co-op (I am teaching a year long in depth cooking class)

History

• Once weekly class with co-op (they are doing story of the world)

Phys Ed

• Twice weekly class with co-op

"Extra's"

• Thursday School with our school board (they go all day to learn what our teachers have prepared once per week.  This gets the hours with the board to qualify for "teacher led" even though it is 100% me leading the rest of the week)
• Piano lessons once weekly

Grade 7: My Middle  (all links that are the same book have been left out)

English

• Book Study - Treasure Island
  - Chains OR Fever 1793 
  - Door in the Wall OR Farmer Boy
• Wordsmith Craftsman - weekly
• Reading Detective - weekly
• Apples - bi-weekly
• Daily Grams - daily
  - Photo for storytelling/creative writing on blog - weekly
  - 7 steps to the perfect story - then write me a story
  - Newspaper Generator - to use for a weekly newspaper for a month, reporting whatever he feels the need to report on! 
• Vocabulary A - weekly
• Journaling on blog - weekly at least
• Spelling Bee - weekly

Math

• Teaching Textbooks

Typing

• Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing

Misc "Home" skills

• Money Management for teens

Art (my son who loves art, will be doing some extra art things)

• Once weekly class with co-op
• 52 weeks of drawing prompts
  OR
• Drawing Lab book
  - Draw in Faces
  - Comic book printable
  - Foam Armor
• Creating a Masterpiece

Science, History, Home Ec, & Phys Ed

• Once weekly class with co-op

Extra's

• Thursday School
• Guitar Lessons once weekly

Grade 3: My Baby (again, all links that repeat are missing)

English

• Book Study - Frog & Toad Together
  -The Mouse and the Motorcycle
• BOB books 
• Kids Kit Magnets for storytelling
• Story Teller Magnets for storytelling
  - Photo of the day for story telling - weekly on blog
  - "I am as..." starters for teaching similies and metaphors
• Reading Detective
• Daily Spelling 
• Journaling on blog - weekly
• Spelling Bee - weekly

Math

• Teaching Textbooks

Typing

• Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing

Art, Science, Home Ec, History, & Phys Ed

• Once weekly class with co-op

Extra's

• Thursday School
• Piano lessons once weekly

So, there is my plan.  I hope it all works out.  I have ordered a tonne of things from this new company that I found.  They will direct bill to my school board so it does not come out of pocket for me.  I kind of got out of control, but there were so many new things I thought would be fun to try, plus after schooling for so long, I am running out of things to spend my funding on.  :)  Just kidding, but it is getting kind of that way.  We end up spending the last thousand or $600 on books or something at the end of the year.

What are your plans?  What do you think I should include?  

Are you excited for school?  I am so excited to gear up for this year.  I can hardly wait!

Cheers 

Teaching Grade Eight and Nine

For my records, and in case it might be of some help to some of you, I thought I would list by very basic plan to teach my kids.

This is the first one.

My oldest is going to do two grades this year.  He wants to do Grade Eight and Nine. 

I think I am going to do Math for sure and English, but he may not totally finish the last bit of Grade Nine.  He can do Nine and Ten next year.

So, for Language Arts/English:

For our Book Studies:  The Giver and The Hobbit (Grade 8)
Diary of a Young Girl and ?? - Suggestions anyone?? (Grade 9)

Three times weekly Creative Writing - done in Notebook format or Blog format

Daily Sentence structure and Usage book
Daily cursive/copy work

Weekly Spelling Bee (with English from the Roots Up cards)

For Math:

We do strictly Teaching Textbooks.  They have a level for each grade.  It does the lecture, testing and grading all in the program.  A bit pricey, but fabulous.

For Science:

I have two Thames and Kosmos boxes we are doing for sure:
Solar power
Hydropower
and we will also start doing Nature Study Journals twice weekly this year.  (here is my pin board where I am collecting ideas for it)

History/Social Studies:

World War 2 History Study (Using Diary of a Young Girl as a spring board to more discussion and research)
Photo of the Day - the photo is used to make 5 inferences, 5 observations, and 5 predictions.  Then discuss it.  We have a couple Photo of the Day apps from National Geographic that are amazing!
Government Terms and Forms Unit study.

Music/Art:

Piano Lessons
Artist Cards with Artist studies
Creative lettering Unit
Photography Course (with a photo he must submit to me once weekly and post on his blog)

Misc things he wants to learn:

Sewing (Jean Slippers, Bandanna Quilt)
Embroidering
Ancient Egypt (I have one of The Great Courses course on that.)

So hopefully that wasn't an overload of stuff for you.  :)

We will be using lots of things from my Pinterest Boards to flesh out the year, and to make learning fun, but this is the very basic outline of things he will be doing.

How about you?  Are you teaching Junior High this year?  What are your ideas?

Cheers