School Starts in One Week!! WHAT!!!

The Griffiths Academy officially opens August 8,2016. That's one week people! ONE WEEK!!! And let me just say I am not ready. I have not bought any curriculum, or school supplies. But that's ok because I still have one weeks, Right?!?!

I do however have a plan.

1. I have looked over Easy Peasy All-In-One Homeschool, and I like what I see so we are going to try it out this year.

2. I have ordered what we need and should be on its way soon.

3. If all else fails we have library cards and already have a few things we can start with.

So really moms and dads lets all breathe, lets not stress. Lets enjoy our last week or however long your summer vacation still has. And lets not stress to much, because in the end everything will work out.

By the Grace of God I believe everything will work out 😳😀😉

Our Curriculum Choices for the 2015-2016 school year 6th Grade

6th grade! wow we sure have come along way. We are counting this year as our first year of "Middle School". And so far we are doing great. So I bet you are wondering what we are using for our curriculum this year, well wait no longer here it is.....

We are doing 6 major subjects this year:
Bible
Math
Language Arts (reading, grammar, literature,poetry,spelling and writing)
Science
History/Geography
Spanish


Math-
We are continuing with Lifepac math and also using worksheets for practice.

www.aop.com


Language Arts-
Reading we are reading The Story of Inventions and a free reading book of his choice.
Grammar Rod and Staff
Literature classic books
Various poets
Spelling-Spelling Workout by MCP
Writing- worksheets, journal, Rod and Staff


Science-
Exploring creation with Chemistry and Physics- Apologia
www.apologia.com

History-
Story of The Middle Ages- (CLP)
homeschoolingbooks.com

We also have a castle to build and Eyewitness books to look at.


Bible-

We are finishing up our Lifepacs from last year. We had only gotten through half of them last year.

We are also doing our devotional daily.

Spanish-
Easy Peasy  6th Level Spanish


Art and Music we are loosely using Easy Peasy  
And he takes Guitar Lessons at a music shop near us.


allinonehomeschool.com

We are reading a good assortment of books too. That's it so far for this year.

Exciting New Edition

Well we have had an exciting couple of weeks with the arrival of Lil T, that's right he arrived August 26 and is the cutest, sweetest little guy. We just love him ❤️ 

Proud Mommy and Daddy

Sweet little baby T 

I am so happy and excited for all the fun times yet to come. We already love spending time with him. 

New nick names😃

So after some thought I have decided to change my boys blog nicknames. 

Trucker will now be referred to as TJ 

Jag will stay Jag

Gamer will be Guy

Sweetie is still Sweetie ( TJ's wife)

And Daddo is still Daddo ( my Hubby)

I felt like I was labeling my boys with their nicknames and my oldest keeps switching jobs 😃 So there we have it.

From left to right Jag , Guy, TJ my boys

TJ and Sweetie and my soon to be born grand son Lil' T 

Daddo and I 😃

Wrapping Up Our 2nd week of School

As we wrap up our 2nd week of school, I can look back and say wow we have got a good start! 

Playing basketball for P.E. 

We are loving Science

And we are loving Wednesday's as our extras day. Gamer has picked Spanish for an elective this year and so far it's been great. 

We have had our ups and our downs, I can see where I need to do some tweaking and can see where it works as is. We have had mostly great days, and a couple of not so good days. That's ok because I know each day is a new start! And I wouldn't change it for anything! 

I have my planner filled out until October and we are going to try and follow it. We really need the structure right now, coming off of summer break. 

Well hope you have had a good start if you have started school, and if you haven't then I hope you have a good start when you do start back. 

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😃❤️