2011

Before the new year started, I made a lot of plans and resolutions for the new year. Some of them were related to school. Some of them were not. Some I have, so far, been able to keep, like going to bed at nine o'clock on school nights. Others, like waking up at 5:50 am on school mornings so as to have more time to get ready, I have had a hard time following consistently. (My alarm rings, so I do wake up, but I don't get out of bed!) I could list many other resolutions like brushing my teeth twice a day, reading the one year Bible, or thinking before I say something. But this is supposed to be a School blog, so I will focus on school things.

Perhaps the subject that is easiest to tell about is History. It is quite straightforward. Each week I will read two chapters of the Susan Wise Bauer book. Then, I will read a non-fiction book that goes along with what I read. I will also read a historical-fiction novel that happens in that time period. At the end of the week I will write a book report about the novel. Perhaps I will post it on this blog. I hope to finish this volume of the history series and then get half way through the next one by the end of May. Maybe I will continue reading it throughout the summer.

Math is pretty much the same as always. I work on Math Mondays, Wednesdays, and alternating Fridays. I do roughly three lessons a day and two or three tests a week. The test, when I have them, count for two lessons because they take me almost forty-five minutes to do. I hope to be finished with my math book by the end of February. I have 138 lessons and I am on the 97th. Then I will proceed to a 7th grade math textbook, which I probably will not finish.

I work on Language Arts, or English;as some might call it, on Tuesdays, Thursdays, and alternating Fridays. I will do a chapter a week. Each one has five lessons. I will finish the whole book, (which has 29 chapters in it, out of which I have done 13,) somewhere around mid-April.

Theology; I will continue reading in The True Story of the Whole World.

In Science, I have a school text book. One that would be used for sixth graders in a regular classroom. I am making my own science book that would be made for a first or second grader. After I read the chapter, I write about what I have just read in simpler terms. I also include pictures that i take off the Internet.

I have no real goals for my foreign language study. Before Christmas, I finished my Latin textbook, we have ordered a new one. My new German Curriculum still have not come.

So I guess that is that. And I think that it is.