Amanda Probst - Journal - 2014-15 Homeschool Plan: Everything Else

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Hi. I'm Amanda...a happy wife and mom to three awesome guys. We've lived here in Fort Collins for more than 20 years and are proud to call it home. Before moving to CO, I worked at a city attorney's office, making use of my law and Master's degrees from Duke. After settling in Fort Collins, I homeschooled my three (now teenage and older) sons and was delighted to experience music classes, soccer, karate, swim team, archery, Science Olympiad, First Lego League, parkour, and climbing (not all at the same time!). From 2005-10, I was also a contributing editor for a national scrapbooking magazine, authoring a book and a couple of monthly columns. From 2009-10, I founded and ran the Good Grief Blog. I enjoy learning new things, spending time with my family, volunteering with The Matthews House, traveling and indoor rock climbing.

2014-15 Homeschool Plan: Everything Else

Tuesday, August 26, 2014 at 01:49PM

Whew. Okay, trying to just knock these all out so I can cross them off my to-do list, lol. Here's the rest of what we've got planned:

ART: I'm going to do better this year. Honest. ;) I've got You Can Draw in 30 Days and two boys who are actually enthusiastic about learning it. In lesson 8, we get to learn to draw koalas!

MUSIC: Asher has Guitar 2 at Options this year, and Micah assures me that he's going to practice piano on his own. :) (Noah, fwiw, still plays both guitar and piano on his own and will be enlisted to help his brothers.)

PE: Both Asher and Micah have PE at Options. They both also have karate classes twice a week plus one or two additional practices for demo team and other additional training. Micah and Noah will also have JOAD (archery tournament team) twice a week (once with the team and once on their own), and Noah will also have swim team (and walks to and from school every day). I think we have PE covered, lol.

CURSIVE/TYPING: This is a work in progress when time allows. We still use Type Fu to practice typing. I'm going to revisit cursive this year, too. I'm not actually as concerned that they learn to write cursive (though that would be lovely) as that they know how to *read* cursive. I'm finding that it's an unanticipated lesson needed.

CURRENT EVENTS: I found an app called Student News Daily that does a nice job of selecting news to discuss with kids. Beyond my normal talking with boys throughout the week as things come up, I'm going to use this to more intentionally start discussions.

Okey-dokey. That's pretty much our plan. Yay! (Will update my curriculum pages on the left soon...)

Amanda |

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2014 Fall Homeschool Goals: http://woelfle-family.blogspot.com/2014/08/homeschooling-goals-2014-2015.html

Thanks for sharing your plans! Above are mine for the year. :)

August 27, 2014 |

Melinda

2014 Fall Homeschool Goals: http://woelfle-family.blogspot.com/2014/08/homeschooling-goals-2014-2015.html

Thanks for sharing your plans! Above are mine for the year. :)

August 27, 2014 |

Melinda

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