For some reason this seemed like an incredibly large milestone, especially coupled with his birthday coming up. He just seems so old.
He took one look at his Math book, saw that each lesson had gone from 2 pages to 3 and asked if he had to do that third page....Overachiever I am raising.
We've changed up his curriculum a little bit. He still does Horizons Math level 4
This is typically considered a harder, faster paced math compared to other curriculum. It's of the spiral approach type.
For Language Arts we are going to be using Learning Language Arts Through Literature the Orange book. This is new for us.
It does all of your language arts items (vocab, grammar, etc.) in once curriculum using age appropriate literature like the Boxcar Children. I have several people with boys who recommended this for Owen. He was using Rod and Staff and it just wasn't going to cut it for him another year.
For reading we are using All About Reading Level 3
This is not a cheap curriculum. About $120 per level. But it works fantastic. Owen was a reluctant reader as well as a little bit behind for the longest time and felt like he couldn't do it at all thanks to some negative things he experienced at public school. He's come a long way with this and I would say is at the appropriate reading level for his grade.
Spelling. Owen is a terrible speller. He'll memorize the words for the test and then forget how to spell them the next week. His language arts program has spelling but we are also supplementing with Spectrum Spelling level 3. We buy it at Barnes and Noble.
For Science we love anything by Apologia. He has decided to do Flying Creatures of the 5th day as soon as we finish up Astronomy in the next 2 weeks.
This is pretty relaxed. I basically just read it out loud to him and any of the littles who want to listen. Ava will often stop her school to listen as well. I don't require him to do anything with science. We did try their notebooking journals, but it was harder when he was younger and couldn't spell. It may be worth it to try again.
We do Mystery of History at lunch time. I read the lessons out loud to all of the kids and they ask questions. Easy and basic. Again, at this level, I don't require anything of him. We are on book two- the Early Church and the Middle Ages.
He also is finishing up the 50 states curriculum we are using with just the west coast states to go. We use the curriculum from Confessions of a Homeschooler but modify quite a bit. She has a lot of stuff in it and I feel like sometimes it's busy work.
He is also doing A Reason for Handwriting Level C which is cursive. This is their first book for cursive and there is a second. I don't know if we will do the second one or move onto typing. not too many people use cursive outside of my generation, and I haven't decided if I want to spend more time on it or not.
So that's his curriculum for the next go round until we determine something doesn't work or he moves onto the next level.
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