School Planning for Carrie

It's raining here today. We just managed to get the corn and peas planted yesterday afternoon and are hoping they have not washed away.

Today is ironing and working on plans for our vacation next week, a bit of sewing, and a bit of baking. And a little more work on school plans.

I can't believe Carrie has completed 6th grade and will start 7th in July! And in November, I'll have another teen (actually for a couple of days, we'll have *4* teens!).

Carrie and I finished our Beautiful Girlhood notebook and we'll start a new one for How to Be a Lady by Harvey Newcomb. She enjoyed using pretty stickers and paper to make a notebook with favorite quotes from the book and corresponding Bible verses and I'll stock up on some new things for the new notebook.

She also enjoys cooking and sewing and we'll keep those up, moving to cakes next and starting some new sewing projects. We need to add typing and she'll continue with fiddle and psaltery. She'll take on some new household chores, too, to better prepare her to be a wife and mother someday.

For language, we'll stay with Easy Grammar and Daily Grams and IEW. Instead of Sequential Spelling, we'll start English From the Roots Up.

She'll move up to the Zeta book in Math U See.

I'm separating Thomas and her this next year for history and science. I'm planning a big geography/science course using a unit study Rachel is writing using Around the World in 80 Days, Around the World in 180 Days, The Ultimate Geography and Timeline Book by Maggie Hogan, and various books and a BJU textbook. We will be doing the work in Around the World in 180 Days, plus doing research, projects, cooking, maps, and minit books using Around the World in 80 Days. I think she'll enjoy this unit very much.

Rachel and I are still in the midst of working on this project and I have to buy supplies for our notebooks/minit books for geography as well as her character notebook. We need to decide what she'll be sewing first and get the material and notions. Everything else is already planned and I don't have to buy any curriculum for her this year.

I'm looking forward to schooling with my smiley girl!