Gearing up For the 2015-2016 Homeschooling year

So for us summer is coming to an end. We start school on August 3. So what has this mama been doing? Planning, planning, planning😃 Before School ended last year I was lucky enough to be able to order our books for this school year. So I was able to plan for the next school year before our fifth-grade year was over. I was excited and planned my little heart away ,I had a new planner book and just stuffed our days full. Now as I am looking over it, I see I forgotten to plan for a few things. Like we like to do hymn study, art and art study, typing, Journal, and this year I really want to incorporate nature study with Gamer. So I decided to take one day and make it a day full of enrichment activities like these.

Before

After

I chose Wednesdays for this day. 

We can't wait to try out our new schedule. ( ok I am probably a little more excited than Gamer is😉)

Of course we will incorporate some TV days, and a field trip or two if we can.

Staycation Fun

Hello hope everyone had a wonderful 4th of July🇺🇸 We sure have 😃 My husband took off most of the week and we have had lots of fun on our staycation. We have went to antique shops, an Artist Colony that had tons of cool shops, we have went swimming, and worked together as a family. We have watched movies and just hung out. It has been great to spend time with my family. For the forth we went to Trucker and Sweeties house for a cook out , volleyball and ladder ball and of course shoot off fireworks. 

Sweetie, Gamer and Daddo watching Fireworks

Trucker lighting off fireworks

God bless you always😃❤️

Reading at The Griffiths Academy

Reading, Literature and Poetry are all part of our homeschooling too. But I didn't really have a set curriculum for them.

I have found a ton of great books at thrift stores, Half Price books and have even bought some online. So for reading I have assigned reading, were I pick a book for him to read. Usually a chapter book that I know he will enjoy reading. He has read The Hardy Boys, Star Wars, The Bridge to Terabitha (although he really did not like it so we switched to something else) and he has free reading where he gets to pick out his own book to read. These have been Diary of a Wimpy kid, Lego stories etc. Right now he is reading a Biography on Albert Einstein for assigned reading and The Strange Case of Origami Yoda for his free read.

For Literature we read together. We have read Peter Pan, Swiss Family Robertson, A Christmas Carol, Chronicles of Narnia, Shakespeare and more. We are currently reading Little Pilgrims Progress. We enjoy our reading time together. And I plan on doing this until he no longer wants me to or he graduates.

For poetry we read poetry together and talk about it briefly.

We have recently started using Easy Peasy all in one Homeschool for extra reading and are enjoying it. So far we are reading through poetry and answering questions about it. We are using level 5 Reading. I don't know if we will use it all year but we just might!

http://allinonehomeschool.com/     - Easy Peasy