NEW PLAN For TORI

I'm a woman.

Isn't there a saying about a woman changing her mind? It's my prerogative?

Well -- I'm not comfortable with how school is going. I want to go back to the basics. So I've ordered Landmark Freedom Baptist Curriculum.

Here is the new plan for school... as soon as the books get here.

Tori is sticking with Saxon Math 8/7. She says she's doing OK with it. We could buy LFBC math for $40 next time around. We'll probably do that. We'll finish this for now.

I ordered 7th grade Bible, which is about the book of Proverbs. We will be doing that in family devotions. Tori has a workbook to do each day for Sunday School. She also has a workbook to do each day for Proteens. So I'm not going to give her one more Bible thing to do on her own for school. I don't want to miss this information -- it sounds like a great Bible class, and once Dan suggested we do bible as a family... I can't pass up that opportunity. MFW wasn't that easy for me to explain to Dan how to do. This LFBC workbook will be self explanatory, I feel, and we can do it each night after supper. One thing I love... LFBC is all KJV. YEAH!! I like memorizing from the KJV... using LFBC helps me with that. Proverbs Bible class deals with many principles concerning young people. Each week has vocabulary, reinforcement activities, a Bible memorization assignment appropriate to the text, and ends with a report on a topic relevant to that week’s material. I'll let Dan figure out how much he'll have the kiddos do.

Science. She will be letting go of the Apologia science -- which she still struggling with and start doing the LFBC 7th grade science. Biological Science... This course covers The Plant Kingdom, The Animal Kingdom, and The Human Kingdom. Revised for the 2007/2008 school year, the course now includes more detailed material on each kingdom, and has many new pictures to supplement the lessons. Special projects are required in several of the weeks, reinforcing concepts taught.

For English she will cover sentence structure, kinds of sentences, punctuation and capitalization rules, recognizing and diagramming all eight parts of speech, contractions, antonyms, homonyms, using troublesome words correctly, and writing compositions are all covered throughout the course of the year. Spelling 7 contains 36 weeks of spelling lists with activities and glossary. So -- we are going to be dumping Spelling Power and her Primary Language Lessons.

Instead of History she will do 7th grade Geography. This course is a study of the World and its physical features including mountains, rivers, boundaries of countries, cities, and the effect of location on climate, resources, population and products. A variety of illustrations and maps are used to help the student to understand the continents and nations of the world. I notice that this lines up with what the 7th graders in Knoxville are doing.


LFBC has a separate Literature class from the English class. I like that... so 7th grade Literature is on Character Building Stories and Legends. Many of the selections have historical significance, embodying information of immediate usefulness or serving as stepping stones for future history study. Other selections illuminate certain phases of living or enlarge the sympathies toward other ways of living. Still others introduce the reader to characters who are eminently worth meeting. These selections are not all necessarily Christian in their philosophy, but the impact they make is positive, and many of them reflect or apply Christian principles. Each week contains vocabulary words; comprehension activities, and Bible memorization of a verse pertinent to the moral or practical lesson presented in the reading selection.

That wraps it up for her.

One thing they recommend is being flexible with your school schedule. They set up the workbooks to have 1 lesson a day for 4 days... then 1 test day. So -- really you could go M-TH, and test on Friday with each subject. Then Fridays would be light... once testing was done you'd be free. OR... you could do one SUBJECT a day + math and spelling. That would work great for literature. just do 5 days of lit in one day + 1 day of math and spelling. For English? That might work... but you'd have to do spelling every day. Science it would work... Geography it would work. So I'm going to be flexible and give Tori the choice. She can do 1 lesson a day and test on Friday OR she can set it up like this for instance; M: geography, math, spelling T: Science, math, spelling W: Literature, math, spelling TH: English, math, spelling test F: math, spelling, free... hmmm... that sounds like fun. I wonder what she will choose.

How much will I have to do with this? LFBC has the kiddos working independently a lot. She will sit in the kitchen with me while I make bread, or sit on the couch while I'm doing what ever it is that I do all day long. I'll correct her tests. I'll give spelling tests each day.

Lord willing... our days will become more productive.