Looking Ahead

J's dance recital was cancelled because of a blackout caused by a big thunderstorm.  They rescheduled it for September (?!).  She's excited school is over and is looking forward to being a junior!  She told me she is considering going into the science field, working with either dancers, athletes, and/or kids.  I've already bookmarked a few colleges to look at, lol.  She also plans to keep dancing.

J went to the Broadway Dance Center with a friend this week and took a contemporary jazz class.  She used one of her free passes and plans on going there a lot this summer.  Her theater jazz summer workshop starts on Sunday.

W's show choir performance was awesome and he can't wait to start the next session in the fall.

Here's the final outline of what we'll probably be using and doing for 6th Grade.  This is the general plan but I predict there will be lots of tweakage. I have almost everything now and I'm really looking forward to September.

W 6th Grade

Spelling, Grammar, Vocabulary

Spelling Skills 5 & 6 (Harcourt)

Simply Grammar (Andreola)

Wordly Wise Gr. 6 (Hodkinson & Adams)

Studied dictation exercises

Journaling

Creative writing 

Math

Saxon 7/6 (TT7 & LoF are on hand)

History & Biography

Various books & workbooks on US & World History
Websites
Documentaries
Readalouds

Oral & written narrations

Timeline

Field trips

Geography

States & Capitals
Countries & Capitals
Continents & Oceans
Mapwork

Science/Natural History

Nature Study: The Handbook of Nature Study (Comstock)
Outdoor Hour Challenge blog
Various books & workbooks
Websites
Documentaries

Oral & written narrations

Experiments

Field trips

Literature

The Chronicles of Narnia series (Lewis)

   -The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe

   -Prince Caspian

   -The Voyage of the Dawn Treader

   -The Silver Chair

   -The Horse & His Boy

   -The Magician's Nephew

   -The Last Battle

Some oral & written narrations
Daily Independent reading - books of choice

Spanish

Getting Started with Spanish (Linney & Orta)

Art

Artistic Pursuits, Junior High Book One: Elements of Art & Composition (Ellis)