New School Year 2017-2018–Our curriculum

It’s been a long time since I’ve blogged, I’m still happily working for VIPKID, but I often refer to my “Our curriculum” posts from previous  years, so I thought I would go ahead and make one for this year too! 
We ended that last school year with some ice cream at Menchies

and then kicked off the new year with a trip to Assateague Island!

We don’t have a lot of ‘school’ planned this month, we have a LOT of field trips and other funning learning adventures though.  We will dive into the ‘books’ next month.

This is what we are using this coming school year:

6th grade

History – Pandia Press History Odyssey Middle Ages 2
Grammar – we are taking a short break from IEW Fix-It Grammar, but plan to circle back around to it.  We are currently doing sentence diagramming from The Critical Thinking Company.  I felt that sentence diagramming will give my son more of a visual to better identify the parts of speech. 
Writing – IEW themed based writing – Medieval History
Science – Real Science 4 Kids – Geology and Astronomy
Spelling – Phonetic Zoo, still trucking along at level A
Handwriting – Cursive copywork
Math – CTC Math and Life of Fred (for review)
Chinese – LingoBus
Critical Thinking from The Critical Thinking Company
Art – variety
Music – piano and church choir

3rd Grade

Geography – Highlights Top Secret Adventures
Spelling/Phonics – Dyslexia Gold and Explode the Code online
Writing – copywork and we will start IEW this year
Reading – Readers from the Sonlight list at my sons level (about 2nd grade)
Math – CTC Math
History – Pandia Press History Odyssey Middle Ages I  and Veritas Press (finish New Testament and Rome, then start Middle Ages)
Science – Pandia Press REAL Science Odyssey Earth Science/Astronomy
Critical Thinking from The Critical Thinking Company
Art – variety
Music – church choir and music appreciation

1st Grade

Geography – Little Passports
Handwriting – Handwriting without Tears
Critical Thinking from The Critical Thinking Company
Math – CTC Math
Reading – Readers from Sonlight list at my sons grade level (Kindergarten)
History – Pandia Press History Odyssey Middle Ages I
Science – Pandia Press REAL Science Odyssey Earth Science/Astronomy
Art – variety
Music – church choir and music appreciation

Circle Time

Scripture study
The Friend magazine
Sassafras Science
The Etiquette Factory
What Would You Do?  Moral Dilemmas
and Red Herring Mysteries (both from The Critical Thinking Co)
IEW Poetry Memorization
I wish you all an awesome school year! 

The End of an Era and What’s New with Me! #Vipkid #ESLteacher #workfromhomeonline

So you may have noticed that I have not been blogging the last month or so.  I resigned from the TOS crew and have decided to put away my blogging days, at least for the time being.  We are still homeschooling, and will continue to do so.  However, I have decided to go a different way in regards to my own personal time. 

I recently applied at VIPKID, and have started working for them, teaching English online to kids in China.  I have been working just a month at this point, and am LOVING this gig! 

It does require a minimum of a Bachelor’s degree and teaching experience.  If you think this might interest you, check it out!  I will be happy to coach you through the process!

In the meantime, you can still find me on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter.  I have also done a few YouTube videos in reference to my new teaching position!

I may still blog every now and then, but I’m loving this new gig and am about to start a TESOL course to get certified!  So, not much time left for blogging!

To everything there is a season and time, and blogging is not in the now.

Happy Homeschooling to all of you!

If you are interested in VIPKID, feel free to email or message me on Facebook!  I will happily help you out!  (The link provided is a referral link and I do receive a small bonus for referrals that complete the process and begin working for VIPKID).

Happy New Year!!