​WEEK 1 : DO DAILY

• Bible: We're going to start by reading in the New Testament with Luke's account of Jesus! Here's a great little intro video, click HERE!  

- Read Luke Chapter 1 together as a family (we use NIV or ESV) - after you've read Chapter 1, let the kids journal about what they've learned. Little kids can draw a picture about the story they've heard, the bigger kids can draw a picture, write about what they learned or questions they may have. Each day continue by reading 1 more chapter & journaling.

- Watch The Ten Minute Bible Hour’s series on Luke for even more! It’s a GREAT resource!

- Each week your Teen is going to read one chapter in God's Will God's Best: For Your Life. ‘Getting into God’s Plans for You’ is this week’s chapter. Take your time through each chapter, the scripture used, discuss these things together.

       - Watch What's in the Bible and The Bible Project Part I and Part II

• Reading: The Teens will cover the chapter each week on History that the Big Kids are reading. The book is a great book, and even if your Teen has read it before, re-reading now that they are older and have a greater understanding will open their minds to a deeper understanding and possibly spark something in them that makes them want to research into a certain topic a little more. For their reading, we will read some of the Sonlight recommended books! These books all fall in line with historical times and events, but the stories are told from a person in that setting giving our Teens a closer view of the world in that time. Our kids need to take charge more as they grow and mature, look through the readers and select a few to read! I hop on Amazon and can usually find nearly all of them used for super cheap!

- The Littles & Big Kids are starting with Charlotte's Web, this is a great thing for your Teen to read to younger siblings.

- We will be using The Good & The Beautiful for Language Arts, first figure out the level your Teen would like to start with. There is a reader in this that they will do daily, they also have their own recommended readers list. While you can never have TOO much reading, you don’t have to force your teen to read all of these. Work with their level and interest- we want to foster a lifelong love of learning, forced tasks seem to do more in the way of damage than encouraging this love that we want to last their lifetime.

• Language Arts: Be sure you've read through our 2017 - 2018 Supply List as that goes in more detail about this program we're using for Language Arts this level and next. If you have not done so already, read through this assessment document and work through the assessment(s) as needed. I did a few assessments to find the right fit for my son. Although he will be 13 this September, I will be holding him back here in this level this year as he's struggled with dyslexia and poor eyesight that went unnoticed for too long (sigh) and I'd rather make sure he's got a strong foundation at this level before moving on.

- This week you can start with The Good & The Beautiful! Every day you will have the following tasks in addition to your reading: Sentence Dictation/Practice, Poetry Memorization or Geography/Grammar practice (these alternate days) and then one lesson in the course book.

• Math: Set up an account at Khan Academy, this will give them missions to work on to learn math skills from how to count up through high school. Engage your kiddo throughout the day in situations that require mathematical skills to navigate and solve - hands on experience is a great help in growing these skills.

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• Baking: In the spirit of back to school & excitedly waiting for the season to make it switch into autumn, this week's baking project is apple shaped cupcakes! Yummm! Enjoy!

• History: The Story of the World is our history text. It covers the history of the world in informational but fun stories that our kids can relate to and learn from. HINT: I buy most of my books (well, most everything I buy ;) from Amazon- but they have great used book options too! [If you have younger kids: feel free to read this book together as a family instead of reading this to the older kids and the suggest book for the Littles to them -- just use this one as it covers the information they need.] Read the Introduction and Chapter 1 this week. Watch THIS & THIS video.

• Science: You'll use Khan Academy for Science too! Start your first task and move through at your pace.

• Crafting: We're going to focus on various handiwork skills with our teens. HERE'S a great list of options, look this over with your Teen and see what they're interested in most. Encourage them to run with their interests and explore variations to the different topics as long as they're interested. Once they're over it? Let it go- move on to something else.

• P.E.: Let's start a Couch to 5K Running Plan! This is a 9 week plan that you and your teen can go into together. Proper nutrition and physical fitness determines so much in our everyday lives. We're going to take this topic of our elective's each week to really learn and focus on our physical state, along with learning more about what we put into and onto our bodies. Feel free to include the whole family in this if they're willing! :)

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WEEK 2 : DO DAILY

• Bible: We're continuing on through Luke, you probably read up through chapter 5 last week. (No worries if not, just start where you are!) Chapter 6 talks about the Sabbath. Do you guys remember and observe the Sabbath? We personally didn't fully observe it (and sometimes still struggle) but it's definitely a special command God gives us. I HIGHLY recommend 24/6 to dig into this topic a little deeper. Remember to take some time after each day's reading to add a page in their journal.

- Refer to The Ten Minute Bible Hour’s series on Luke.

- Read another chapter of God’s Will God’s Best, “I Want to Live Life to the Extreme” is this week’s chapter. Take your time through each chapter, the scripture used, discuss these things together.

• Reading: Let's continue reading Charlotte's Web to the younger siblings (if applicable), otherwise just keep your teen aiming to read 1 chapter per day in the book they’ve selected, and also some time in their reader from The Good & The Beautiful.

• Language Arts: Continue on with your Lessons, Sentence Dictation & Poetry memorization/Geography/Grammar cards in The Good & The Beautiful.

• Math: Continue on with Khan Academy practice.

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FAMILY ELECTIVES : 1 PER DAY

• Baking: Baked apple chips are such an easy and healthy snack, here's a great recipe!

• History: Read Chapters 2 & 3 in The Story of the World. we're starting to get into Ancient Egypt which is so much fun. Anytime you find a place of interest in the book, do a quick YouTube search of the place to get a better understanding of what it's like there. We LOVED taking a virtual journey down the Nile River! Watch THIS & THIS.

• Science: Continue Khan Academy for Science. Start your first task and move through at your pace.

• Crafting: What handicraft did you pick last week? Continue on with that one, or switch to something new. HERE'S a great list of options, look this over with your Teen and see what they're interested in most. Encourage them to run with their interests and explore variations to the different topics as long as they're interested. Once they're over it? Let it go- move on to something else.

• P.E.: Week 2 of Couch to 5K Running Plan! How did Week 1 go? The hardest part is keeping the momentum-- be sure to download the apps on your phone or tablet to keep you going!

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WEEK 3 : DO DAILY

• Bible: Luke 11 starts with Jesus sharing with his disciples how we should pray, we know this as 'The Lord's Prayer'. A fun challenge would be to learn to recite this in Hebrew!

- Refer to The Ten Minute Bible Hour’s series on Luke.

- Read another chapter of God’s Will God’s Best, “I Want to Love and be Loved” is this week’s chapter. Take your time through each chapter, the scripture used, discuss these things together.

• Reading: Let's continue reading Charlotte's Web to the younger siblings (if applicable), otherwise just keep your teen aiming to read 1 chapter per day in the book they’ve selected, and also some time in their reader from The Good & The Beautiful.

• Language Arts: Continue on with your Lessons, Sentence Dictation & Poetry memorization/Geography/Grammar cards in The Good & The Beautiful. ​(My son is NOT a poetry fan, never did like it. But through memorization of the poems and of scripture I do notice growth in his retention, his confidence, attention span, etc... -- so keep at it! :)

• Math: Continue on with Khan Academy practice.

FAMILY ELECTIVES : 1 PER DAY

• Baking: Friday is the first official day of fall, here's a delicious recipe for a super autumn themed treat!

• History: Read chapter 4 in The Story of the World. Watch THESE videos.  What's in the Bible Genesis and Exodus are great shows that will discuss the Biblical timeline to go along with our reading.

• Science: Continue on with Khan Academy for Science.

• Crafting: Continue on with your handicraft, or switch to something new. HERE'S a great list of options.

• P.E.: Week 3 of Couch to 5K Running Plan! The hardest part is keeping the momentum-- be sure to download the apps on your phone or tablet to keep you going!

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WEEK 4 : DO DAILY

• Bible: Luke 16 is continuing on with accounts from Jesus' life. Pause and discuss the things that Jesus points out as a good trait or a bad trait. What are some of these things? In our day to day lives, how can we adjust our outlook and actions to be more Christ like?

- Refer to The Ten Minute Bible Hour’s series on Luke.

- Read another chapter of God’s Will God’s Best, “I Want to Be Surrounded by God’s Friends” is this week’s chapter. Take your time through each chapter, the scripture used, discuss these things together.

• Reading: Let's continue reading Charlotte's Web to the younger siblings (if applicable), otherwise just keep your teen aiming to read 1 chapter per day in the book they’ve selected, and also some time in their reader from The Good & The Beautiful.

• Language Arts: Continue on with your Lessons, Sentence Dictation & Poetry memorization/Geography/Grammar cards in The Good & The Beautiful. ​(My son is NOT a poetry fan, never did like it. But through memorization of the poems and of scripture I do notice growth in his retention, his confidence, attention span, etc... -- so keep at it! :)

• Math: Continue on with Khan Academy practice.

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FAMILY ELECTIVES : 1 PER DAY

• Baking: Glazed apple cinnamon bread for breakfast on a cool fall morning? Yes please! (add a tsp of pumpkin spice into your coffee while it brews too! Mmmm!)

• History: Read Chapter 5 in The Story of the World. Watch THIS.

• Science: Continue on with Khan Academy for Science.

• Crafting: Continue on with your handicraft, or switch to something new. HERE'S a great list of options.

• P.E.: Week 4 of Couch to 5K Running Plan! Nearly 1/2 way there! Keep up the good work!

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​WEEK 5 : DO DAILY

• Bible: We're finishing reading Luke this week. Chapter 22, verses 26-27 is such an important one. How can we apply this to our daily lives?

- Read Luke Chapters 21-24 together as a family (we use NIV & ESV) - after you've read 1 Chapter each day, let the kids journal about what they've learned. Little kids can draw a picture about the story they've heard, the bigger kids can draw a picture, write about what they learned or questions they may have.

- Refer to The Ten Minute Bible Hour’s series on Luke.

- Read another chapter of God’s Will God’s Best, “I Want a Meaningful Career” is this week’s chapter. Take your time through each chapter, the scripture used, discuss these things together.

• Reading: Let's finish reading Charlotte's Web to the younger siblings (if applicable), otherwise just keep your teen aiming to read 1 chapter per day in the book they’ve selected, and also some time in their reader from The Good & The Beautiful.

• Language Arts: We should be around Lesson 21 in The Good & The Beautiful. Continue on with these activities.

• Math: Practice on Khan Academy, this will give them missions to work on to learn math skills from how to count up through high school. One of the best ways to learn beginning math concepts is through day to day life -- encourage your Teen(s) to help with as many math related tasks at home is huge! Grocery shopping/budget, baking, measuring, etc...

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FAMILY ELECTIVES : 1 PER DAY

• Baking: October officially kicks off the Season of the Pumpkin! Let's make these Pumpkin, Oatmeal, Chocolate Chip Cookies this week! (The oatmeal makes them healthy right? ;)

• History: Read Chapter 6 in The Story of the World and then watch THIS video.

• Science: Continue with Khan Academy for Science.

• Crafting: We're going to focus on various handiwork skills with our teens. HERE'S a great list of options, look this over with your Teen and see what they're interested in most. Encourage them to run with their interests and explore variations to the different topics as long as they're interested. Once they're over it? Let it go- move on to something else.

• P.E.: We're 5 weeks into Couch to 5K Running Plan! This is a 9 week plan that you and your teen can go into together. Proper nutrition and physical fitness determines so much in our everyday lives. We're going to take this topic of our electives each week to really learn and focus on our physical state, along with learning more about what we put into and onto our bodies. Feel free to include the whole family in this if they're willing! :)

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WEEK 6 : DO DAILY

• Bible: We're moving into John this week. Watch these videos first, HERE and HERE. Remember to take some time after each day's reading (just a chapter per day) to add a page in their journal.

- Read another chapter of God’s Will God’s Best, “I Want the Good Life” is this week’s chapter. Take your time through each chapter, the scripture used, discuss these things together.

• Reading: We're going to start reading The Trumpet of the Swan to the younger siblings (if applicable), otherwise just keep your teen aiming to read 1 chapter per day in the book they’ve selected, and also some time in their reader from The Good & The Beautiful.

• Language Arts: Continue on in The Good & The Beautiful - how are you liking this program? Be sure to reach out in our Parent Facebook Group if there's anything we can help with!

• Math: Continue on with Khan Academy practice.

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FAMILY ELECTIVES : 1 PER DAY

• Baking: Here's a fun, lazy morning breakfast treat! We always substitute our recipes with organic ingredients and scale back on the sugar. While we focus on healthy, well rounded foods for our meals-- a special time one day each week to bake a yummy treat is such a fun activity for our family!

• History: Read Chapters 7 & 8 in The Story of the World this week. Watch THIS & THIS.

• Science: You'll use Khan Academy for Science too! Start your first task and move through at your pace.

• Crafting: We're going to focus on various handiwork skills with our teens. HERE'S a great list of options, look this over with your Teen and see what they're interested in most. Encourage them to run with their interests and explore variations to the different topics as long as they're interested. Once they're over it? Let it go- move on to something else.

• P.E.: Week 6 of the Couch to 5K Running Plan! How are you feeling? We're over half way now!

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WEEK 7 : DO DAILY

• Bible: John 6 starts with Jesus feeding five thousand men with just five small loaves of bread and two fish. Here's more on where this happened. Each day read one chapter.

- Read another chapter of God’s Will God’s Best, “I Want to be Close to God” is this week’s chapter. Take your time through each chapter, the scripture used, discuss these things together.

• Reading: We're going to continue reading The Trumpet of the Swan (should be Chapter 6 now) to the younger siblings (if applicable), otherwise just keep your teen aiming to read 1 chapter per day in the book they’ve selected, and also some time in their reader from The Good & The Beautiful.

• Language Arts: We should be around Lesson 35 in The Good & The Beautiful. Remember, if your child needs more than one day per lesson to really understand the concept- that is just fine! Take all the time you need. Likewise, if they go through more than one lesson per day (and truly understand it all), that's ok too! If they're constantly going through more than one lesson per day you might even want to consider moving up a level or re-doing the assessment linked on Week 1.

• Math: Continue on with Khan Academy practice.

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FAMILY ELECTIVES : 1 PER DAY

• Baking: Let's make some Apple Cider Muffins this week! Yumm!

• History: We're learning about India this week, read Chapter 9 in The Story of the World and watch THIS.

• Science: Continue on with Khan Academy for Science.

• Crafting: Continue on with your handicraft, or switch to something new. HERE'S a great list of options.

• P.E.: Week 7 of Couch to 5K Running Plan! The hardest part is keeping the momentum-- be sure to download the apps on your phone or tablet to keep you going!

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WEEK 8 : DO DAILY

• Bible: John 11 is continuing on with accounts from Jesus' life. Read 1 chapter per day.

- Finish the final chapter of God’s Will God’s Best, “I Want my Life to Matter” is this week’s chapter. Take your time through each chapter, the scripture used, discuss these things together.

• Reading: Continue reading The Trumpet of the Swan (chapters 11-15) to the younger siblings (if applicable), otherwise just keep your teen aiming to read 1 chapter per day in the book they’ve selected, and also some time in their reader from The Good & The Beautiful.

• Language Arts: Continue on in The Good & The Beautiful for your Teen(s) level(s). Make sure they’re getting through the sentence dictation practice, alternating in the poetry memorization & geography/grammar cards and also completing one lesson each day.

• Math: Continue on with Khan Academy practice.

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FAMILY ELECTIVES : 1 PER DAY

• Baking: One of my favorite treats around Halloween time as a kid was caramel apples! Here's a great (and easy) tutorial for making bite size caramel apples! Top with whatever you'd like!

• History: Read Chapter 10 in The Story of the World & watch THIS. We looked up silk worms actually making silk and it's very interesting!

• Science: Continue on with Khan Academy for Science.

• Crafting: Continue on with your handicraft, or switch to something new. HERE'S a great list of options.

• P.E.: Week 8 of Couch to 5K Running Plan! Almost done! Keep up the good work!

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WEEK 9 : DO DAILY

• Bible: John 16 is again going into the account of the end of Jesus' life. It's so sad to read about the death of Jesus, but really shows us just how deeply God's love for us is that he would send His only son to die for all of our sins. And we know, that although Jesus died on our Earth because he was partly man, he also rose from the dead 3 days later because he is God, our King of Kings! Can you imagine being one of the people that saw Jesus after he rose from the dead? Wow! How amazing that must have been!

- Read one chapter per day and then take some time to journal about it. Thoughts, feelings, questions- share your thoughts to further discuss, ponder and pray on.

- THIS is one of our favorite songs (by our fave artist!) -- I just shout this one out to the Lord, listen to the words (and ‘mashiach’ is Hebrew for ‘messiah’... Jesus! Yes, I surely DO want Him NOW! :)

• Reading: Continue reading The Trumpet of the Swan (chapters 16-20) to the younger siblings (if applicable), otherwise just keep your teen aiming to read 1 chapter per day in the book they’ve selected, and also some time in their reader from The Good & The Beautiful. You can never read too much! :) Your Teen should be doing just fine reading these books all alone- make sure they have a dictionary nearby in case there's any issue with vocabulary. A quick Google search for help in pronouncing the foreign words is a great help (or make up your closest guess! ;)

• Language Arts: We should be on Lesson 45 in The Good & the Beautiful! Keep working through the packet at a pace that works well for your Teen!

• Math: Continue on with Khan Academy practice.

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FAMILY ELECTIVES : 1 PER DAY

• Baking: Let's bake some Brownies!

• History: Read Chapter 11 of The Story of the World & watch THESE videos.

• Science: Continue on with Khan Academy for Science.

• Crafting: Continue on with your handicraft, or switch to something new. HERE'S a great list of options.

• P.E.: Week 9 of Couch to 5K Running Plan! You did it!!!

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​WEEK 10 : DO DAILY

• Bible: We're finishing reading John today and then move into Acts. Watch this episode of What's in the Bible, and The Bible Project HERE and HERE. After you've read 1 Chapter each day, let the kids journal about what they've learned. Little kids can draw a picture about the story they've heard, the bigger kids can draw a picture, write about what they learned or questions they may have.

- The Ten Minute Bible Hour does an amazing job breaking down Acts, be sure to watch these along with it!

• Reading: We're finishing The Trumpet of the Swan (if you didn't already finish it last week- otherwise catch up/finish now if reading to the younger siblings) Once you finish reading it, watch the movie! This is a fun exercise to see what difference you find in the movie(s) from the book. Compare them with your kid(s), what version do you like best?

- Otherwise just keep your Teen aiming to read 1 chapter per day in the book they’ve selected, and also some time in their reader from The Good & The Beautiful.

• Language Arts: The Good & The Beautiful -- continue through the packet. Dictation, memorization, geography/grammar and the daily lessons!

• Math: Practice on Khan Academy. One of the best ways to learn beginning math concepts is through day to day life -- involve your Teen(s) as much as possible!

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FAMILY ELECTIVES : 1 PER DAY

• Baking: November is a special month of thanks and gratitude. While we should always have an attitude of thanksgiving, this is a special time to really focus our hearts on this. Let's practice some pie recipes to pick a favorite for Thanksgiving dinner! Mini Apple Pies are a quick and easy one!

• History: We're on Chapter 12 and in the Middle Kingdom of Egypt! You can check out THESE links too!

• Science: Continue on with Khan Academy for Science.

• Crafting: Continue on with your handicraft, or switch to something new. HERE'S a great list of options. Have you ever considered turning a skill you have into a business? Minding Your Business is a great book for you guys to read!

• P.E.: You can keep up with what you’ve been doing on the Couch to 5K plan, but I also like to balance that with doing some simple bodyweight exercises too! THIS site has some great ideas! It’s SO super important to learn at a young age how taking care of our bodies makes such a difference! God crafted them in a specific way, and sitting around all day was not the magic key to keep us healthy. ;)

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WEEK 11 : DO DAILY

• Bible: Read 1 chapter per day starting in Acts 5. Remember to take some time after each day's reading (just a chapter per day) to add a page in their journal.

- The Ten Minute Bible Hour does an amazing job breaking down Acts, be sure to watch these along with it!

• Reading: Keep your Teen aiming to read 1 chapter per day in the book they’ve selected, and also some time in their reader from The Good & The Beautiful. If they’ve got younger siblings using this program, they can certainly help and read the smaller kid(s) too!

• Language Arts: The Good & The Beautiful -- continue through the packet. Dictation, memorization, geography/grammar and the daily lessons! How are you guys liking the program?

• Math: Continue on with Khan Academy practice.

FAMILY ELECTIVES : 1 PER DAY

• Baking: This week we're going to make a pumpkin pie, 100% from scratch! This is so fun and tastes AMAZING! Enjoy!

• History: Read Chapter 13 of The Story of the World - Pause to Google or YouTube search the ancient lands and people we're reading about. It's a super easy way to give everyone a visual image of the things we're reading about. Your kids are bound to recognize the things they see in these videos, it's what most of us picture when we hear 'Egypt', watch HERE.

• Science: Continue on with Khan Academy for Science.

• Crafting: Continue on with your handicraft, or switch to something new. HERE'S a great list of options. Have you ever considered turning a skill you have into a business? Minding Your Business is a great book for you guys to read!

• P.E.: You can keep up with what you’ve been doing on the Couch to 5K plan, but I also like to balance that with doing some simple bodyweight exercises too! THIS site has some great ideas!

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WEEK 12 : DO DAILY

• Bible: Read 1 chapter per day starting in Acts 10. Remember to take some time after each day's reading (just a chapter per day) to add a page in their journal.

- Watch to videos the correlate with the daily chapter you’re reading on Ten Minute Bible Hour.

• Reading: Keep your Teen aiming to read 1 chapter per day in the book they’ve selected, and also some time in their reader from The Good & The Beautiful. If they’ve got younger siblings using this program, they can certainly help and read the smaller kid(s) too!

• Language Arts: The Good & The Beautiful -- continue through the packet. Dictation, memorization, geography/grammar and the daily lessons! (We should be around Lesson 60 by now)

• Math: Continue on with Khan Academy practice.

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FAMILY ELECTIVES : 1 PER DAY

• Baking: Let's finish off November with these delicious Pumpkin Snickerdoodle Cookies!

• History: We are on Chapter 14 in The Story of the World. HERE'S a couple videos and THIS is an AMAZING documentary! It's available on Netflix too (or was the last time I looked). Definitely worth a few bucks to rent though!

• Science: Continue on with Khan Academy for Science.

• Crafting: Continue on with your handicraft, or switch to something new. HERE'S a great list of options. If none of the ‘crafts’ appeal to your Teen, find projects or duties around the house that might be more up your kiddo(s) alley!

• P.E.: Let’s do some more bodyweight exercises! Which are your favorites? You can YouTube search any moves you’re not sure on.