2012-2013 Curriculum

Throughout the summer I've been ordering this and that now it finally came together to form a curriculum for the 2012-2013 school year. It will be our most challenging year as Ava is now enrolled in Kolbe Academy. We now have to turn in her work to them to keep up with. I'm really pleased with this option, now I don't have to keep a portfolio for colleges because they'll do this for us. However, her workload has increased. To get Matthew prepared for next year's enrollment I've ordered some of Kolbe's material for him as well. Rachael still has that excitment for 1st day of school...I miss that with the others. As Ava tells me, "Mom, it's still school no matter how fun you try to make it."
Thank you honey.

Anyways here a look at what we are doing this year:

Ava

Math: Saxon 6/5
Religion: Seton 5th and Bible study
English: Easy Grammar 5, Kolbe's Spelling/Vocabulary, Classical Composition, MCP Phonics E
Reading: Kolbe's Elem. Lit program
Science: Zoology 1 flying creatures
History: Seton's America's Catholic Heritage
Geography: Maps skills F
Latin: Latina Christiana 1

Matthew

Math: Saxon 5/4
Religion: Seton 4th and Bible study
English: Easy Grammar 4, Spelling Zoo, Worly Wise, Classical Composition, MCP Phonics D
Reading: Kolbe's Elem. Lit program
Science: Zoology 1 flying creatures
History: Seton's America's Catholic Heritage
Geography: Maps, Charts, and Graphs level E
Latin: Latina Christiana 1

Rachael

Math: Abeka's Arithmetic 1
Religion: Seton's 1st and bible study, Baltimore Cathechism for 1st Communicants
English: Primary Language Lessons, MCP Phonics A, All About Spelling A
Science: Zoology 1 flying creatures junior program
Reading: All About Reading

Artful August

Is it August already?!? I can't believe how fast these months fly. Since I don't have time teach art in our homeschool curriculum we decided to outsource it to our new rec center in a class called Artful Adventures.  It is mostly a painting class which taught them how to use watercolors, acrylics, oils, and pastels.  They painted two masterpieces for us each day.  What a blast they had!  Also, did I mention how wonderful our weather has been these past couple weeks.  We've had rain and temps in the 80s for highs.  How unusual for an August in Texas.  Because of our wonderful weather, we all headed to the zoo last Sunday.  It was so nice, and surprisingly not crowded.  I guess everyone was shopping at the no tax sales...lucky for us!  

these are the oils

collage of their work

one tired little boy.  the blanket was actually over his head :)

 

we finally picked up her violin...how tiny and cute it is. she actually needed a 1/10