Goss Homeschool Academy

  This month we have been focused on electricity and magnetism in our homeschool. Christian is 9th grade and Eva Mae is 7th grade and this year we have been studying physics in a "one room schoolhouse" type of way. I created a schedule that allows for a 4-5 hour a week assignment for my 9th grader. This includes scheduled reading pages, video lessons, written narrations, and lab homework with completed lab notebook assignments. For Eva Mae, her assignments are less rigorous as a 7th grader and include less reading than Christian, but still written narrations and lab assignments. Read all about my schedule here and download the physics plans for free! As I was preparing our lab activities I thought I would share a lesson plan for your 6-12 grade students that focuses on the difference between volts and current. I found the concept fascinating as we are using coin cell batteries for several projects. If we were using mostly AA batteries we would need to have an electrical resis

Our monthly hymns and folk songs for 1st semester ( Download lyric sheet here ) August  For the Beauty of the Earth - version 1 / version 2  / acoustic version The Log Driver's Waltz - video / version with orchestra / acoustic version September Glorious Things of Thee are Spoken - video with lyrics  / acoustic version The Water is Wide - James Taylor - Eva Cassidy October How Great Thou Art - story behind the song / Lauren Daigle / Shane and Shane Now is the Hour - acoustic version / Bing Crosby  / history video (Most of the popular songs that grew out of World War II came from the European side of the battle. One of the very few that reach us from the Pacific was “Now is the Hour“, a song of the maori’s of New Zealand, originally known as “Maori Farewell Song“. It was given English lyrics and its English title, and Gracie Fields, the great British musical entertainer, popularised it during the last stages of the war. This was a period when the conflict in Europe was drawing

The journey continues! I'm so blessed to have another year to plan and home educate two amazing people! We have a wonderful community as well that I'll share a little about in this planning post. For reference, if you are interested in any past planning posts you can visit them here: 2023-2024 , 2022-2023 , 2021-2022 , 2020-2021 , 2019-2020 , 2018-2019 , 2017-2018 , 2016-2017 This is the first year I will have a high schooler!!! I can't believe Christian is 9th grade! For that reason, I'm keeping our normal records of books, activities, etc. but also formatting them into transcript form for Christian. I have a long post here all about high school credits. If you're interested in learning more feel free to download the free handout I created for our community. Now, as is typical of my planning posts, I will go through each subject under the Knowledge of God, Knowledge of Man, and Knowledge of the Universe to share a few things about our school plans! Links to books

In the 2023-2024 school year I planned several of our Riches subjects into a Monday morning schedule called " Magnanimous Academy ." I plan to continue this schedule in the 2024-2025 year with a few additions and new ways of approaching the subjects. For this blog post I'll detail each subject and what we plan to study through the year!  Ourselves This was one of my favorite subjects the past year. We read a little less than half of book 1 this past school year. (2023-2024 we read Part I and Part II of Book 1. This year we will read Part III chapters 1-7 in the fall semester, and chapters 8-15 in the spring semester. You can see all the chapters at this post. ) We keep a narration notebook and I have Christian and Eva Mae write down some of the key phrases in each section but the most important part of this subject is the conversations we have during the reading. It ends up becoming a beautiful devotional time as everything we read points back to a life lived by character

  I love pretty things and I love seeing a list on one page! The Knowledge of God, Knowledge of Man, and Knowledge of the Universe are the guiding principles I follow as I create our curriculum each year. There are many facets to each subject but if you would like to print this visual for your homeschool planner feel free to copy and print, or download the PDF for free on my Gumroad site! FREE DOWNLOAD For my friends that I met at the recent Charlotte Mason Mini Retreat, I've put together some helpful links that you might want to use in your planning. My personal homeschool blog - you're here at my main homeschool blog where I share updates to our school year and the resources I use each semester. My latest planning blog lists books, websites, and more that we are using for grades 7 and 9 this year! My nature lessons - I started leading nature classes when my children were in elementary and we have continued it in middle and high school! Click any topic for information and ide

  I cannot believe that the time has come to start preparing a high school transcript for Christian! In the hours of reading and researching I did for our sciences I have found a beautiful rotation that is working so well for us! If you would like to go back to previous blog posts, we started physics way back in 2021 through the Screen Free Science class ! In 2022 we studied chemistry , and last year we had an amazing year of biology . Click the links to read more about the books I used for each of these classes. This year, we are starting the rotation over with physics and a deep dive into the life of Newton, a wonderful and living text on physics by Walter Lewin, and a series of educational videos by the Crash Course team. I created a document for anyone to download that includes hyperlinks and a reading schedule for the year! I hope it is helpful to you if the traditional textbook science just doesn't work for your family! I love what Lewin says at the end of his book: "My