2016-2017 6th Grade Curriculum Choices

Wow! A lot of changes have occurred in our house in the last few months!! I've gone back to work full time and my husband is now working from home. Big changes that have thrown our homeschool schedule out of orbit. I tried really hard to just keep it business as usual, just leaving lists and pages of instructions for CJ to follow. That didn't work. CJ's great at doing the work when I'm gone but the books and resources we are using just weren't good for this. I was having to leave pages of details instructions and explanations about what I wanted him to. He needs very short straight forward instructions. Dad is here to help, but he needs clear straight forward instructions too! Next I tried cramming a whole week worth of instruction and teaching into one evening or morning that I was off work. I work retail so my schedule is whacky. That didn't work either. Too much information at one time.

     So, simple solution - and just one of the many things I love about homeschooling! - we are taking off now until June, except our co-op classes which end in May, so that everyone can relax and adjust to the new schedules. And I went on the hunt for curriculum that was more of an all-in-one. Something with everything laid out and organized and with a clear plan that CJ can easily follow on his own.

    Changes with our co-op (I told you we had a lot of changes!) actually helped make this process easier. We decided, as a group, to all use Oak Meadow and meet once a week to do some projects or experiments and go over the lesson together. I'm super excited about using this curriculum. I've wanted to use it for the past couple of years. I think it's going to work perfectly for us. It's written so that Connor can just open it up, read and follow the instructions. All the subjects; History, English, Science, are laid out the same so that there is consistency, which makes it  easier on both of us.

     With  a few other little things added in, this is what our 6th grade plan looks like right now:

Oak Meadow 6th- History, Science, and English

Bookshark 6th- Readers and Read Alouds (as time allows)- I really like this curriculum and wanted to find a way to use it and Oak Meadow. Since there in so way we can, or need to, use the full program, I ordered the IG for 6th grade history and we are going to go through the readers and read alouds, as time allows, using the guide for the schedule, discussion questions and whatever else we might want to do.  

Logic - Thinking Toolbox and Fallacy Detective

Vocabulary - Wordly Wise 6 and Vocabulary from Classical Roots

 Reading Comprehension- Einstein's Who, What and Where

                           

That's it.... now we just wait and see how it all turns out!