Our First Week

Hello! My name is Leah and I have two boys, ages 6 and 10. This is our first week of home school! Everything is so overwhelming at the moment but I wanted to create some type of journal to look back at in a year. I want to see where we were, where we will be, and where I would like us to go. Since there are already so many home schooling blogs, I figured this would probably be the best way to keep some sort of record for our family. :-)

We started on Monday, July 14 2014. My oldest will be in 5th grade this year, and my youngest will be entering 1st. I think I could just list off what curriculum's or methods I have decided to go with this school year.

5th Grade Daily Curriculum, and in short what we are covering this week:

1. Verse Memorization: "And let us not grow weary while doing good, for in due season we shall reap if we do not lose heart." Galatians 6:9
2. Math, Saxon 7/6: Lesson's 11-16
3. Literature - 10 Weeks of Poetry: Week 1 - Cliches. 
4. History/Geography: Story of the World Vol 1: Introduction & Chapter 1
5. Science: A Beka Chapter 1.1-1.5
6. Copy Work (Hand writing):

1st Grade Daily Curriculum, and what he's covering currently:

1. Verse Memorization: Galatians 6:9
2. Math, Xtra Math and Saxon 1 (I do not like this at all. Saxon 1 does single digit addition and subtraction at the very end of the book, where my son is doing 2 digit addition and subtraction...I will soon be swapping methods, or utilizing Khan Academy until he's ready to start multiplication tables)
3. Literature: Reading Time Rhymes, Beginning Poetry for Children, 20th Century Children's Book Treasury
4. Reading: Read with Me Bible - he reads this out loud to me twice every day. We just finished talking about Elijah and Elisha before he went to bed. :-)
5. History/Geography: Story of the World Vol 1: Introduction, also using beginner map reading print outs
6. Science: Apologia Astronomy Chapter 1, supplemental beginning reading Astronomy books, Constellation and Planet print outs
7. Copy Work: Lessons in Manners (by Sandi Queen)

Group Lessons (both boys together):

1. Latin - Memoria Press: Prima Latina, Lesson's 1 & 2
2. Verse, Grammar, & Vocab Study

This covers everything we're doing so far. I have us scheduled out in Trimesters that are from 11-15 weeks long each. This trimester is 11 weeks, lining us up for my youngest son's 7th birthday. He has recently made a comment about how we always do big trips around his brother's birthday (late winter/early spring), but we never do trips around his birthday (very end of September), so I am trying to plan our schedule out so that we may do a nice trip during break. Hopefully it works out! :-)