Yesterday began our 9th year homeschooling and her 10th grade year .
To say this is hard for me to imagine is an understatement. She was just 7 learning about Egypt by planting grass seeds and making the Nile and reading Magic Treehouse books wearing a toga and building tent houses and pretending to be a meerkat burrowing down .
This year is going to find us immersed in Europe. European History from 1200 to now, European literature, a Shakespeare study and European Art .
I searched and searched for a European History book that wasn’t just a ‘book’ with no avail. I found some college level books but they were way too pricey for me. So I bought The Complete Idiot’s Guide to European History. It had really good reviews and we were able to look through it online to check it out.
We are using Introduction to English Literature which was given to us by a friend.
We are using various resources to study European Art.
We are using The Shakespeare Book and studying various plays and sonnets for our Shakespeare study.
She is doing a Farm Study too. Her dream is to own a small, self sustaining farm and she already has a notebook full of resources.
We also are doing a Geography study. She picked 36 countries that she wants to learn more about. We are doing notebook pages and trying some foods from the countries.
I’m not sure what we are doing for the dreaded Math. I believe we will use Khan Academy for Geometry. Pray for us both.
Keilee has started a YouTube channel called “Bringing Smart Back“. She does all the writing, filming, editing and promoting for this. She posts a video every Wednesday. She wants kids to know it’s cool to be smart. Check out her channel! 🙂
And there’s Biology and art and Bible journaling . She will continue to work on her serial killer study (she’s a weird one) and in her online class with Jessica they will be writing a novel. In addition to her finishing the novel she is over half way finished called “September’s Children”.
She is also working at church in Kid’s Church. She is a host which means she learns a script and performs each week.
She still has her Princess parties and is also helping teach a local homeschool Science class and gymnastic class once a week.
She is still going to have her Instagram shop; Keilee’s Kreations .
And there will be field trips and nature walks and picnics and reading aloud and hammock lying and lazy days on the couch and bike riding and game playing and laughter and talks and dancing in the kitchen and sock sliding down the hall .
Because that is one of the best things about this life we are blessed with. Every day is an adventure and you never know where the day will take you .
Homeschooling Rocks!
Karen
Karen
“The way kids learn to make good decisions is by making decisions, not by following directions.” ~Alfie Kohn
“Creativity is a type of learning process where the teacher and pupil are located in the same individual.” ~ Arthur Koestler
Sarah and I love it! (We are also serial killer fans, and we are ALSO doing some geography notebooking this year, which was fun!)
Looks like you guys have another great year planned. Love the YouTube channel.
Blessings
Diane
Looks like you have another great year planned. The Shakespeare book looks interesting and I see it is part of a series. Hope my local library has at least some of them. I’ve missed your posts. Looks like I need to get an instagram account.!
@ Dawn:
Hi Dawn. I know my poor blog is so neglected. Do you use Instagram? I am homeschoolgirls there and post almost every day. If you have access to a smart phone its very easy to set up. I have friends that don’t even post they just use it to keep up with others. 🙂
What a wonderful year ahead. I love all that you all are going to be doing. Since you don’t post to often here is their another way to keep up with your studies? I would love to hear more about how you are going to do art and shakespeare.
Blessings, Dawn