Making Plans

I've heard that the best part of an anticipated event is planning for it. As much as I enjoy the planning for a new school year, I can happily say that is not the case in this case. In the midst of the other things going on in our summertime, I am putting together plans and goals for My Only Sunshine's 10th grade studies (did I say 10th grade?!). While I make adjustments to fit her needs, interests and abilities, I continue to use Ambleside Online as the spine for our Charlotte Mason curriculum.

I have a homeschool friend whose son is a year ahead of My Only Sunshine in the AO curriculum. She kindly sells me their materials when they finish them, so gathering books is usually fairly easy. In addition to AO books, My Only Sunshine will study Apologia Phyiscal Science. She has chosen Hebrew for foreign language. We have a Jewish friend who knows Hebrew and has offered to teach her (well, probably both of us). She uses a one semester course, so we'll start koine Greek second semester and continue it through next year. In addition to our CM-style geography/map studies, we'll use some material from _The Ultimate Geography & Timeline Guide_ by Maggie Hogan & Cindy Wiggers. She will also use _Easy Grammar_ by Wanda Phillips. We will study the Old Testament with the face of a clock with _The Essence of Time_, an out-of-print book by Frankie Luper. She will learn some computer basics with free tutorial programs on the Microsoft website. I'm still working out the details of My Only Sunshine's Home Ec studies.

We'll resume lessons on August 18th, so I have a few more weeks to enjoy planning!