Memorial Day

I love this song, it reminds me of the soliders who are and have fought for our freedom. God bless everyone who has kept this freedom for us!

Ancient Literature

This is for my 9th grade student, these are her literature only books. History will still be composed of "living books" but they are many books we will use with history curriculum

First Term
The Golden Goblet
Tales of Ancient Egypt
Gilgamesh

Second Term
Black Ships Before Troy
The Children's Homer
Hittite Warrior

Third Term
Aesop's Fables
Psalms
Old Testament Readings (Major to Minor Prophets)

Fourth Term
In Search of a Homeland: The Story of Aeneid
The Bronze Bow
The Lantern Bearers

For a total of 12 novels read, each term lasts 9 weeks, and boy is that tough sometimes. Soemtimes you just want to be done with a history topic, ugh like when we studied the reformation when the prince was in 3rd grade. I asked the little comic to be if he remembered why someone was famous and he said, " Was he one of the burn-ees?" This was only after 2 weeks of the Reformation, we were done the next week. It will be interesting this next year :)

9th grade plans

Well the Queen starts high school here is the plan so far:

Math
Saxon Algebra 1/2

Language Arts
Write Your Roots(she will write a collection of family stories should be interesting with all the family she has)
Vocabulary Vine or Science Roots (haven't decided)
Applications of Grammar
Daily Grams
Ancients Literature done with history

Science
Abeka bio taken at co-op so labs can be done there :)

History
Ancient Civilizations (Tapestry of Grace Yr. 1)

Debate-done at co-op

Pychology again done at co-op

Government-done 9th grade year because it is an election year,she will also keep an election scrapbook

the second semester will be Christian Living which we will using Thinking Like A Christian and maybe the next in series Counter Culture

Also she will do Drama through co-op but will only earn about a 1/4th of credit with it

also a 1/4th credit for a line dancing class

We might work on 1/2 of Spanish but I have not decided that yet if we did it would be in the winter semester.

planning

Well I am in the midst of a planning frenzy. So far I have planned only one of the many classes I have to plan. I have planned American Government we are using CLP The Land of Fair Play and Painless American Government.

I still have high school health to plan for the wacky prince, science for the chef, language arts for queen to be, health for the chef to be and 1 pre-algebra book to finish working through. Ohhh did I mention the co-op classes I need to finish planning, my literature class always takes a lot of planning but is by far my favorite class to teach. I also need to work on my 2 levels of African studies, and get that done but those classes don't start for awhile.

It was so easy to plan when they were little, what happened? And what happened to my summer break?

menu plan Monday

Monday
Chili Rellano Casserole

Tuesday
Spaghetti
salad
garlic bread

Wednesday
leftovers

Thursday
LisaOK oven fried Chicken
cheesy mashed potatoes

Friday
Pacific Beans
Cornbread

Saturday
baked potato bar

Sunday
grillin' delight

My favorite things

Well my bratty daughter in law tagged me, such a brat so without further delay MY THREE FAVORITE THINGS:

1. My favorite color is a deep forest green, it is so earthy reminds me of pine trees that were around our house in Houston where I grew up.

2. My favorite time of day is after the house has grown quiet and everyone but me is asleep. I don't get to enjoy this time often maybe only once or twice a week because dh is a night owl and has more stamina than me.

3. My favorite book for today is my third. It is a book that I feel is liberating me and making my time my own. If you have problems saying "no" this will be your favorite book too, Boundaries by Henry Cloud. IF you are always the person to call because they know you will not tell them "no" embrace this book. If more than once this week been up late making something, last minute planning or covering for someone else this is YOUR book.

These are my three favorite things today :)

School Year 2008- 2009

Week 1-9
July 7- Sept 5th
break Sept 8-12th

Week 10-19
Sept 15-Nov 21
Break Nov.24-28

Week 20-21
Dec.1- Dec 12


Christmas Break
Dec.15- Jan.2

Week 22-27
Jan.5- Feb 13
break Feb.16-20

Week 28-33
Feb.23-April 3rd
Easter break April 6-10

Week 34-38
April 13- May 15 th (week of May 11-15 is a catch up week

Off until the Monday after July 4th

Well it is over the 2007-2008 school year is done :)

Well the Hindenburg and the school year is done. It is like the project that would never end, kind of like the school year. We worked hard and for the most part we are done, my queen to be has about a week's worth of health to finish plus a project. It honestly is not her fault our printer broke mid-year and have been unable to replace it, so I have forgetten several times to get copies.

We will take a week off and then they will have to do math twice per week. The prince will finish his math book soon (MUS division book) and will move into Saxon 87. DD is trying to finish Zeta and is only a little over half way done but will move into Saxon Alg.1/2, her choice :) Why the switch? My younger one(the chef) needs more variety he is so bored with division and hates that he has to spend a year doing it. My oldest needs to feel confident in her math skills and Saxon is very good at it but she also needs constant review or it goes bye bye and she total forgets the skill. My wacky prince is a little bit of both, he is very good in math but has yet to be taught some fraction skills (even though he picked up quite a bit with the queen's stint of over a year and half in fractions) but also needs the review. Also Saxon can be bought cheaply and is not consumable. So for this season we are going to be a Saxon family.

I am pleased with how their writing has progressed this year. CQLA really improved their writing a lot, it is IEW laid out. The younger two will continue with the writing (mainly because we have it leftover from this year) but older will be going a different avenue. All in all I am very pleased with the progress this year. We are still finalizing 2008-2009 school plans but I am working very hard on it. I am already working on lesson plans for science for the chef, TOG history and Government for the Queen to be. Nothing is completely done and some are barely started.

But for now it is SUMMER BREAK IN OUR HOUSE

Menu Plan Monday

Monday
egg burritos
with bacon and salsa

Tuesday
chicken fajitas

Wednesday
leftovers
or
Baked potatoes

Thursday
baked potatoes
or
sausage with potato wedges

Friday
BBQ meatballs
with leftover potato wedges

Saturday
hotdogs with chili

That is our week :)