As always, we had such a fun time learning with American Heritage yesterday! We had our Literature Lesson which is entitled, Growing Up. We analyzed the story again of Jesus walking on water and learned about theme and characterization. Then the boys made these beautiful crowns! I was really proud of my six year old. My seven year old is really into art, but my six year old is not into art as much. But he really put a great deal of effort into this and actually spent the most time on his! His crown is the first one below with the rainbow jewels. He asked me to show him a picture of the rainbow so he could put the colors in their proper order. I was so proud of him for his attention to detail! This is something that we have really been working on. They loved these crowns so much, and my seven year old even wore his around the house throughout the evening. Next week we will be reading and studying The Tale of Peter Rabbit by Beatrix Potter.
On Thursday I took this great photo of them working hard on their writing...and our Jack Russell Terrior, Charlie, taking a good nap in the background! He's a sleep at my feet as I type this! He is usually doing one of three things:
1. Playing Ball
2. Eating
2. Eating
3. Sleeping
He is adorable and we love him so much!
This spring, we have been using the Scholastic Success in Writing Level 1 workbook and we absolutely love it. Both boys' writing has greatly improved. You can get these for $3 or $4 from Rainbow Resource online. I have found Rainbow Resource to have the best prices online for many school supplies.
Next year we plan to use The Good and the Beautiful Language Arts Course Book. It is completely free to download! We will not need their handwriting workbook because The American Heritage Family School gives us so many handwriting worksheets.
The American Heritage Family School does not offer Language Arts or Mathematics so we supplement with The Good and The Beautiful. But American Heritage does offer wonderful literature courses and lots of handwriting worksheets! And The Good and The Beautiful offers their entire Language Arts curriculum for free!
Another thing that The American Heritage Family School does that I love is to encourage you to make a portfolio of your children's work as you go! You simply create a binder and divide their work up by subjects. You just file their work away every day and before you know it they have a beautiful portfolio of all of their work for that school year! We have only been doing this for a few weeks, and my six year old loves his so much! He loves to look through it and to show it off to his Grandpa! He is so proud of his work and accomplishments! I know that we will always treasure this! Since we began late in the year, we just made our own, but American Heritage also offers really nice dividers that you can purchase for your notebooks. Or you can make your own! It is completely up to you!
Some people have already ended school for the year and started summer. We will be homeschooling until the end of June. Why? Because that is how long this amazing free COVID-19 membership lasts with The American Heritage Family School and I want to learn everything I can about how to do this program with them so that next year we are really ready to go in the Autumn! Plus, we really love learning at our house and even when "school" is over we will still be learning, it will just be called, "summer camp!"
The American Heritage Family School is founded on the teachings of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, but I highly recommend it for those of all faiths who love the Savior. Every lesson is tied to the Savior and invites such a special spirit into our home. And you are getting so much more than what you pay for. The tuition - $40 per family a month - is one of the lowest costs that I have seen so far and I am overwhelmed by how much they give you for that! And, no, American Heritage is not paying me or asking me to write this. We are just extremely happy with this school and feel so honored to be a part of it. The curriculum is so high quality and my children absolutely love it. My seven year old was very skeptical at first about homeschooling, but said yesterday, "Mom, I love my new school!" He said this while we were doing our Growing Up Literature lesson with American Heritage. Try it for yourself for free! You and your family will love it! And be sure to watch the introductory videos that they offer and take the Foundations course so that you understand how the program works. Everything was really simple after I did this. You will also love the community of homeschooling families that you get to be a part of. Everyone has been so friendly and willing to answer all of my questions. Let me know if you have any! Just fill out the comments section on the right side of my site!
I am planning on organizing a fun summer reading challenge and sharing my at home summer camp ideas! Join my private Facebook group to be a part of these fun activities!
Have a Happy Saturday!
