This year, like his older siblings, he'll be starting online dual-enrollment classes from a Christian university. He'll still do a few things with me. So, I guess you could say that this year will be a mixed bag.
Here's what he'll be learning. Since we only homeschool 4-days a week, you can assume that each of these subjects will be covered only four times each week unless otherwise indicated. An asterisk signifies a new-to-him or new-to-me resource.
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Content-rich Subjects
Personal Devotions- every day
- ESV Student Study Bible
- Deep dive into Job on his own.
Traditional homeschool subjects
- Plane Geometry from A Beka Book
- Rosetta Stone Spanish- This will be a continuation of the program he started last year. (2x a week)
- Read for pleasure. (every day) I will gather a list of titles, including those on my High School Must Read list, for him to choose from each month. (Vetting titles in bulk is a great way to provide a teen/tween some helpful discernment while still offering choice in their reading selection.)
- The Manual to Manhood (1x a week)- He will only get to half of this book this year and will finish reading the second half next year.
- Biblical Economics in Comics (2x a week)
Dual enrollment/college subjects
Life Skills
- Maintain an EBay junk-hunt store.
- Behind-the-Wheel hours- Last year, he took Driver's Ed through a private organization. According to state law, he has to log a certain number of behind-the-wheel hours with a parent and with his instructor before he can apply for a driver's license.
- Volunteer at the local soup kitchen with the rest of the family. (1x a month)
- Clean his room and make his bed each day.
- Daily chores: sweep the library, stairs, and upstairs hallway, do the dishes twice a week, clean/maintain the downstairs bathroom
- Weekly Chores for his child-of-the-day privileges and responsibilities: help make lunch/dinner and do two loads of laundry (Mondays), do the dishes (Mondays and Tuesdays), rotate with his brothers to mow the lawn and/or shovel the snow as needed
- Monthly Chores: dust the main floor with his siblings, mop the library, stairs, and upstairs hallway, mop his room, and randomly select one additional chore from our chore jar one Saturday each month.
Co-operative Learning
His first-semester co-op classes will be as follows:
- Communications
- Strength Training & Nutrition
His second-semester co-op classes are yet to be determined.
My son has never lacked for ideas and industries to keep him busy. But with maturity and growth comes refinement. He's beginning to let go of some hobbies in order to free up more time to invest more deeply into others. The cream will always rise to the top. So, we'll see which activities eventually make the cut during his non-school hours.
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