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2021-2022 Planning Post

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Grades 4 and 6! I can't even believe it! Our homeschool journey seems richer and richer each year but I also feel like it takes longer to plan and have a guideline for our curriculum. As with many of my previous year posts, using the Delectable Education curriculum templates helps me streamline my subjects and topics for each year. Both Christian and Eva Mae are Form 2 this year. That means more written narrations, independent reading, and additional subjects like real Shakespeare readings, Plutarch, and Latin will come into the mix for both of them! Instead of a scheduled spreadsheet for each week, I am moving to a notebook system for myself and for the kids. I read this post several years ago - with all of our classes that are happening through the week, I feel that scheduling as we go is going to be the most efficient and consistent for us this year. In this post I will list our resources and links for each subject along with some timeframes that I expect us to complete. For

2021-2022 Artist and Composer

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  For the 2021-2022 school year we will be following the Ambleside Online schedule for artists, and the Composer Study Companion Volume 3 for the composers! Term 1 - Van Eyck / Verdi Term 2 - Boticelli / Schubert Term 3 - Fredrich / Grieg For the resources we will be using, visit A Humble Place Blog to download the artist prints and read more about artist study! Visit Composer Study Companion to see how we use the biography books and the companion book to study the music!