Almost Done...

Here we are almost at the end of May, and for my family this is a time to begin celebrating.  We're not completely finished with school for the year, but we're so close we can almost taste it!

So far we've finished everything except science.  I can easily say that the past 5 months have held much more clarity in knowing what, when, and how to teach each of my chicklets at this stage of their schooling.  A lot of prayer and trust in God has led to my confidence as both Catz and MrC finish their one year together as middle schoolers.

Here is a list of the curriculum we used and a quick rating of each:
* Teaching Textbooks: Algebra 1 Awesome! Very intuitive for my 8th grader.
* Horizons Math 6 Awesome! Again, another intuitive program. (Though I don't understand why the publishers added budgeting, savings accounts, and amortized loans into the last 10 lessons.)
* Sonlight Curriculum: World History part 1 Love the literature approach to history! This program rocks!
* Easy Grammar/Daily Grams Great daily grammar review.
* Wordly Wise 3000 Good for increasing vocabulary.
* Rosetta Stone Spanish Really love this program!
* Exploring Creation with Astronomy What an awesome science series! I can't say enough about this amazing program!!
* Exploring Creation with General Science Again, just an incredible science curriculum!! Get it, use it, love it!!
* Live and Learn Fantastic lapbooks that we used for our science and history studies!

Okay, so that's it.  The next few weeks are going to see me ordering new curriculum, buying literature at our local used curriculum sale, scheduling out next year's subjects, and cutting out lapbooks {with the kids' help, of course}.  And with the kids finishing science, there's going to be a whole lot of CELEBRATING!!