Today marks the first day of our 2018-2019 school year. I am extremely excited about my curriculum choices for the year. We will be using Easy Peasy, a free all in one online homeschool program! I love what I see so far and the fact that it's free makes me even happier! Joie will be doing 12th grade and Jayden 7th. I can't believe Joie is in 12th grade!!!! I was really nervous about teaching her for her last year of highschool, but not anymore. I am fully confident that she will graduate with all the knowledge she needs to carry on to college.
Instead of using Easy Peasy for math I am having Jayden use Life with Fred. I think he will respond well to the fun stories in the program. Check out some sample pages here. Joie is using Math-U-See for pre-calculus. She learned and retained so much last year in Algebra 2 with Math-U-See that I figured there was no sense in changing the curriculum this year. We both appreciate the Video lessons that come with the complete curriculum; it allows me to have more time. If she doesn't understand the material after the video then I step in to help, but honestly, I only had to do it once on material she should have learned in her public school Geometry/Algebra1 class the year before.
Both of my children need more grammar lessons. I am shocked that Joie only learned grammar the years I taught her. Do public schools not teach it anymore??? Great writing comes from understanding proper sentence structure. I will be using Fix-It Grammar for both of them. Again, I am really excited to use this curriculum; I am already anticipating success!
We have found some homeschool groups on St.Thomas, so this year we already have some group activities planned!
May this school year be enriching, fun, and peaceful for us all.
