2015-2016 Curriculum

Just like I can’t believe it is August already, I can’t believe we are entering the 2015-2016 school year!   Just yesterday I was a little kid thinking I’d be ancient in the year 2000 (31! Old as the dinosaurs!), and now I really am ancient and it’s 2015. 🙂  I expect George Jetson to fly by any minute.
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What We Are Using This Year: The Rest of Them

Always one to fall into the trap of treating my kids as a group, I’ve pretty much lumped the youngest three together as far as what we are doing for homeschooling this school year.  I’m not usually proud of that “group think,”, but it’s working for us this year! These youngest three are: Julia, 11 and in 6th grade;  Lydia, 9 and in 4th grade; James T., 7 and in 1st.
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What we are using this year: 11th grade

2014-2015 will be my 12th official year of homeschooling.  I didn’t think that was a big deal, until this summer when sitting with other mothers from our Classical Conversations group. They are a younger group for the most part, and there were  some ooohs and aaahs during introductions when I said how long we had been homeschooling. I guess I can consider myself a veteran now!
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