I am so excited to make my first check in post of the new school year!
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It has been a long summer for us and we were all ready to get back to HOD and our daily sweetness.
I will start with RTR. My 12yo 7th grader is doing RTR without extensions (due to his age). We are already loving it! He actually has just finished his 2nd week, so this will cover both weeks of his work.
Our favorites thus far are the storytime book "Forbidden Gates" and the Boyhood and Beyond book. Of course, those are the ones we do together which is probably part of why they are *my* favorites.
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This year, ds is doing the guide 5 days a week as we both really want him to do all of the guides by the end of his schooling. It warmed my heart to know that he wanted to do that! If we tire of it, we can always slow back down...but this is the plan for now.
Here are some samples of the great work he is doing this year:
Science: He created the solar system using balloons
And a really cool solar eclipse!
He had written 2 good narrations, which is something new this year. In CTC, he was doing written narrations in History only. In RTR, he is writing them once a week for each subject.
And done some cool notebooking:
In History, he has been working on his notebooking pages:
Doing some neat projects:
and making some beautiful artwork:
We opted to do the
Shakespeare study this year and he is really liking it so far! He takes his time and actually really enjoys coloring the pictures. He enjoys anything that can be considered "artistic."
He is even using his creative juices in
Bible study with Phillipians!
And I think he made a wonderful jump into the IEW Writing lessons." His first piece was pretty good and, of course, he drew the picture (as suggested in the book) for extra credit. Haha!
Pardon the overload of pics...can you tell I am one excited momma???!! Unfortunately I will not have anything to post for my 12y/o for the next few weeks because he is off with his dad until the 15th of August.
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I will have some to post for my little guy though! Bigger Hearts week in review to follow!!
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