Delaney's Curriculum for 2013-2014 school year

Delaney's self portraits 

This girl is so driven to really know how to read....so that's our biggest focus this year.  She does read, and quite well, but she still has a few issues to work through.  We will use many Newbery Award books (based on history time period), McGuffey readers and the scriptures to increase her reading level.
She wants to be a 'big kid' and do things like her big brother and sister.  Namely, she wants to have assignments that she has to complete on her own.  To do this, she will be doing math using Teaching Textbooks....all she has to do is get on the computer, watch the lesson and complete the assignment in the morning before I get with her.  It's her job to get this done on her own after her family chores and cleaning her room.
She would also love to join the Classical Conversation's class of Essentials next year.  Having this as a goal, she's working hard to get her writing skills honed too.  I will be using Writing with Ease and First Language Lessons, and Winston Grammar for her language arts.  I'm also using the 220 Dolch sight word list as her spelling list.

I'm really proud of Delaney, it's hard for her to sit and really study, she's a mover....she wants to be up dancing and moving, but she has identified some goals she want s to complete.  I try to help her remember them but I will require when her spirit is weak!  :)

She's continuing with dancing!  She loves it!!!!

For history and science we are focusing on the modern time period 1850-present.  For science the focus will be on physics and chemistry.  I'm using Easy Peasy, our history group gatherings and lots of literature.  I think we're going to look into our own family history this year too.  Up on our timeline wall I will add pictures and date of family members.  I'm going to try to get family journals of our ancestors...at least some stories of them.

 Apparently, she's been having some fun with the camera...that or she was bored....or both!