Scheduling Success--I hope!

In order to lighten our summer load and prevent free-fall in December, I decided to focus on what is, for us, essential, and move around the rest. The essential Sacred Cows are: spelling, science, math, Latin and writing (for the 10 year old). I continued with Canadian History just because the timing is right, given our trip to Montreal in May. We will continue to do these throughout June and July.

I took someone's suggestion to alternate Grammar. I may play with that a bit, yet, but my son will be happy to know he gets a mid-textbook break from July 20 to August 30th. I tend to think of Grammar like Math, so it may or may not be a good idea. I may try and find a worksheet or two, something he can do in 10 minutes or so. Then again, we are continuing with the writing--and that's just grammar in practice--so we may be just fine.

As for the rest, it's fairly self-explanatory. The rush to finish SoTW and THE-HURRY-IT-UP-AND-CATCH-UP is gone. Wherever we are when my son hits Grade Nine and begins the Classical Books curriculum will be fine as long as his skills continue to grow. I have to do another spreadsheet, of course, for just that. It should be interesting. But not today.

I still have to decide on a science curriculum for the Fall and figure out our read-alouds. I still have to correlate my daughter's Bible study (Vos and Calvary Chapel) with the subjects covered in Christian Studies 1. And I need to figure out whether to speed up on our Canadian History curriculum and if so, how. Next year (2009) we'll do Provincial Facts and Geography. (Must come up with a better name for that!) The year after that, something on the structure of Governments, municipal, provincial and federal. (Maybe). But I digress.

Here is the revised schedule. Many thanks to all.

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