Piney Woods Homeschool

My oldest will begin Year 10 in a few weeks. Yesterday I visited the AmblesideOnline website , pulled up the Year 10 schedule page, and downloaded the .doc version of the Detailed schedule . I uploaded that to Google Drive and shared it with my dd and dh, granting them editing privileges. Dd can participate in the making of her schedule.  (The Basic schedule for Year 10 probably looks substantially different from the Detailed schedule.  Beginning in Year 7, the Basic schedule is no longer just the Detailed schedule without showing other options but rather is a lighter schedule that has fewer books read more slowly and in some cases even uses different books.) Today she and I looked over the Term 1 booklist , pulling out some of our physical books to examine and consider. We know we must pare down. For instance, Year 10 Term 1 has books scheduled under Theology, Worldview, and Citizenship. We decided to just keep the Citizenship titles on our schedule for this term. The ot...

I use AmblesideOnline in our homeschool, and I appreciate the chart-format schedules that are provided for each year .  Before I use those schedules, though, I modify them to make them work for our family .  Here are some samples of a shortened version of my edited schedules for a few different years to give you an idea of what these look like.  (The samples show only a few weeks of each term so as not to violate AmblesideOnline's license by reproducing the schedules on another site.) Year 1 chart Two terms of Year 1 Year 2 chart Another Year 2 chart Year 3 chart Another Year 3 chart Year 4 chart Another Year 4 chart Year 5 chart Two terms of Year 5 Another Year 5 chart Year 6 chart Another Year 6 chart Yet another Year 6 chart Year 7 chart Year 8 chart Year 9 chart Another Year 9 Chart Yet Another Year 9 Chart One More Year 9 Chart Year 10 chart Year 11 chart   Year 12 chart Another Year 12 chart Briefly, I follow this basic process to prepar...