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I cannot believe I’m already making plans for a new school year!!
I shared a few weeks ago about our likes/dislikes for the 2012-2013 year.
So, we are making some pretty big changes this year! For the first time EVER I am going with a full “boxed set” of curriculum. 🙂 Woo-hoo!! I looked pretty intently at 3 major companies, and finally ended up deciding to go with Winter Promise.
As you know, we finished up our 2 years of American history, so it’s time to try some World History and Ancients, so this is the particular program I looked at with Sonlight, My Father’s World and Winter Promise. Â I looked (and looked and looked) at the samples and ended up really liking what WP offered. All 3 of those programs are wonderful and each has their own set of distinctions. The Winter Promise pages and guide books are so much more updated than others I looked at, they include lots of “other” fun stuff that will be helpful as well. For instance, there are projects listed throughout the entire year that I can just hand to Hannah and let her choose from and complete all on her own! She will LOVE this. The notebooking pages are all right there, done for me! And they are excellent. There is lots of opportunity for independent work and having my girls take some responsibility in their learning, which fits perfectly with what I heard from Debra Bell at the Teach Them Diligently conference a few weeks ago!! Needless to say, I’m excited!
I shared much more about Winter Promise here, what I love about it and why I think it is going to be a great fit for our family!Â
In addition to our World History program, (which includes history, Bible, literature, geography and more,) here are the other things we’re doing…
Math ~ you may remember we reviewed Math-U-See this year! What a HUGE blessing! So, all 3 of the kids have finished the Gamma level and I have the Delta level on my desk ready to start in the next few weeks!
Language Arts ~ the girls will be trying out the language arts that goes along with Winter Promise and coordinates with their history! I’m excited about this!
Memory Work ~ this is something else we will be continuing. I was so inspired by Pam Tebow’s talk at TTD to KEEP GOING with all the Scripture memory! We also memorize poems and this year may add in some history, not sure yet.
Writing ~ we are currently reviewing IEW and will go ahead and finish the Student Intensive level A.
Science ~ I’m VERY excited because our new co-op in our tiny town is offering several STEM Lego classes! I enrolled each of my 3 kids in these classes and this will be their science for the year! They will be studying simple machines, pulleys, gears, inventions and more!
Art ~ They will also be taking art classes through our new co-op!
Piano Lessons ~ all 3 kids have continued piano lessons through the summer and will continue into the fall as well! We could not love our piano teacher any more!
So, stay tuned for a more in-depth post about Winter Promise!
What about you? Do you have your plans all ready to go? We generally school year round and this year took just a few weeks in May off because I personally needed a break. 🙂 We are going to be starting back up in July. Getting my last minute things prepared!!
**This post and many more are part of the Teach Them Diligently Summer of Homeschool Encouragement Link Up Series. you can read more about other Homeschool Curriculum choices here.
