2012-2013 School Year Wrap-Up

When I look back on this school year I feel good about it.  We did a lot of both "school" and other activities.  I'm happy with all of our accomplishments but disappointed that we didn't do as much history as I had thought we would.  I decided not to use a curriculum for history this year and just read lots of good historical fiction novels and biographies.  We read some great books but didn't get into as much history as I would have liked.  Here's what we did--
With all three--
Visual Latin lessons 1 to 13
Apologia's Bible Who is God?  and half of Who Am I?
ONE measly art project (planned to do one every week)
Read the following books--
Follow My Leader
The Lemonade War
The Shoes that Love Made (biography of Paul Brand--christian "hero")
biography of Thomas Edison
The Girl Who Could Fly
YWAM's Lillian Trasher biography
All of a Kind Family
Dear America's Journal of Brian Doyle (set in Alaska on a fishing boat)
More All of a Kind Family
All of a Kind Family Downtown

Hannah--
Florida Virtual School 8th grade Language Arts
Florida Virtual School 8th grade Science
half of Teaching Textbooks Pre-Algebra
about a 1/3 of Algebra 1, taught by me using Holt Algebra 1
Wordly Wise 8
Total Language Plus--The Hiding Place
Read the following books--
Mary, Bloody Mary
The Giver
Up a Road Slowly
Okay for Now
Great Gilly Hopkins
Around the World in 100 Years
Beware, Princess Elizabeth
Doomed, Queen Anne
Duchessina
Usborne Medieval World
The Bad Queen
Outrageous Women of the Middle Ages
The Hiding Place
Pictures of Hollis Woods
Kisses for Katie

Grace--
Florida Virtual School 6th grade Language Arts
Wordly Wise 6
Teaching Textbooks 6
Critical Thinking's Language Mechanic
PE
Apologia's Land Animals--about 2/3 of it
Read the following books--
10 Women Who Made History
Mary, Bloody Mary
Dear America--Valley of the Moon
Beware, Princess Elizabeth
Princess Academy
Duchessina
Doomed, Queen Anne
The Wild Queen
Anne of Green Gables

Joe--
Teaching Textbooks 4
Evan Moor's Daily Language Review 4 (about 1/2)
a Language Arts 4th grade textbook
Evan Moor's Daily Geography 4
Apologia's Land Animals--about 2/3 of it
Wordly Wise 4
PE
Read the following books--
Usborne's Greek Myths
Where the Sidewalk Ends
Light in the Attic
Capital Mysteries
Sideways Stories from Wayside School
Fudge-a-Mania
Diary of a Wimpy Kid
*Joe had to read for 15 minutes a day but I let him choose what he read.  Sometimes it was picture books, sometimes he would read a chapter book, and often he would read the Shel Silverstein books.