Thursday, August 11, 2011

Our 2011-2012 curriculum

Not Back to School Blog Hop


 Our school year has actually been underway for 7 weeks.  We try to take off more time in the spring and fall.  We took off half of May and half of June.  We have some extra time scheduled off in November to go hunting.  It's just too hot to be outside right now!

I've tweaked our schedule a bit since we started, but overall I've kept it pretty much the same.  I think I'm pretty pleased with our plans for this year.    

Raising Arrows Christian Academy 
Curriculum for 2011-2012
Subject
 Connor
Jacob
Shaoey & Grace
Bible
One chapter a day
One chapter a day
Bible story a day
History 
Bible Study
Scripture Memory
Simply Charlotte Mason                               Scripture Memory pack
Simply Charlotte Mason                               Scripture Memory pack
Writing



Literature
American Literature
American Literature
Learning to read
Math
Saxon 8/7 &              Teaching Texbooks
Saxon 6/5 &              Teaching Texbooks
MUS Primer
Language
Language Lessons for Little Ones
Spelling
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Copywork
Student chooses
Student chooses
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Science
Nature Journal &                 Apologia Physical Science
Nature Journal &                 Apologia Flying Creatures
Poet/year
Composers   (using the CM method and Getting To Know the World’s....)
Artists     (using the CM method and Getting To Know the World’s....)
Hymn Study
Spanish
Spanish songs and books Flip Flop Spanish
Family Bible Study
Handwriting

Character
Poetry
I tried to link to each book that I use.  Some of these click through to my Amazon store.  This is another way I am helping build our adoption fund.  THANKS! 

I realize the chart may look overwhelming.  Keep in mind that I have it listed out for the whole year and some subjects we only do once a week.  Here's a chart showing how often we do each subject.


Subject
Times per week
Bible
Daily
Math
Daily
Science
Daily
History 
Daily
Scripture Memory
Daily
Literature
Daily
Copywork
Daily
Spanish
Daily
Spelling
Daily
Handwriting
Daily
Family Bible Study
3 x week
Copywork/Dictation
3 x week
Language
2-3 x week
Writing
1 x week
Nature Study
1 x week
Poetry
1 x week
Composer
1 x week
Artist
1 x week
Hymn Study
1 x week
Art
1 x week
Character
1 x week