Sorry for the delay....

We have been doing school very sporadically lately.  I haven't even done enough to blog about!  I have not been disciplined either.  But that's really ok, because I planned on doing school through most of the summer anyways.  We are almost done.  We will still be doing Kindergarten with Kyle, so his school years may be off for a bit.  But he wasn't supposed to start until this school year, so I'm not worried about it at all.  


Amanda will be done with her math soon.  Then we will just keep on working through the Hooked on Phonics and reading.  Kyle will do the same basically.  We'll start other subjects in September.  I am going to sit down here really soon and detail my plans.  But I do have tentative plans on what I want them to learn next year.  They will do all subjects together but math, phonics and reading.  Here is what I have so far:

Health & Safety

• Personal Cleanliness
• Dental Hygiene
• Basic Food Groups
• Neighborhood Safety
• Safety (Fire, Earthquake, etc)

Social Studies

• Holidays and Festivals
• Patriotic celebrations
• Basic Geography (Oceans, Continents, etc)
• Map skills and using a compass
• Manners

Visual Arts

• Lines
• Sculptures
• Landscapes
• Animals in art
• Abstract art
• Architecture
• Leonardo Da Vinci
• Van Gogh
• Michealangelo
• Picasso

Music

• Many Kinds
• Patriotic Music
• Folk Music
• Classical music Mozart
• Other great composers
• Families of instruments
• Writing music down
• Notes
• Pitch: High & Low
• Scales
• Hymns
• Beethoven   

History

• What is history?
• Creation
• Adam & Eve
• The Nomads
• Egyptians I
• Sumerians
• Jewish People
• The Assyrians I
• India I
• China I
• Africa
• Egypt I
• Phoenicians
• The Assyrians II
• Babylon
• Crete
• Greeks I
• Medes & Persians
• Sparta & Athens
• Greeks II
• Alexander the Great
• People of Americas
• Rome I
• India II
• Chine II
• Rome II
• Jesus' birth
• Jesus' miracles
• Jesus' parables
• Jesus' Crucifixion & Resurrection
• Rome & Christians
• Barbarians
• End of Rome

Science

• Life cycle
• Dinosaurs
• Weather
• Seasons
• Climate
• Water cycle
• Air & atmosphere
• Magnets, forces & simple machines
• Gravity
• Earth
• Sun. moon, planets
• Simple constellations
• Scientific method & scientific inquiry
• Human Body
• Scientists
• Anton van Lesuwenhock
• Florence Nightingale
• Daniel Hale Williams
• Elijah McCoy
• Liquids & Solids
• Rocks, clays & soils

 Language Arts (Kyle only will be doing the one with a star next to it)

• Poetry*
• Charlotte's Web*
• Tales of the Fourth Grade Nothing*
• Sentences
• Nouns-Singular & Plural
• Verbs-Past and present
• Adjectives
• Antonyms & Synonyms
• Contractions
• Abbreviations
• Using Capital Letters
• Letter writing
• Silent reading
• Oral reading
• Quotation marks
• Punctuation
• Learn how to use a dictionary
• Spelling
• Writing
• Journal
• Mummies in the Morning*
• Learn about books and how to look them up in a library
• The Borrowers*
• The Boxcar Children*
• Pirates Past Noon*
• Beezus & Ramona*
• The Sign of the Beaver*
• Superfudge*
• The BFG*

Phonics for each child is Hooked on Phonics program

Math for Amanda-Using Math Mammoth book