Our Plans at the Beginning :: Meghan's Sixth Grade Year :: 2025-2026

This is our lineup of classes and resources for Meghan's 6th Grade Year: 

Bible + Faith

Awana T&T

Basics for a Biblical Worldview

Masterbooks Elementary Apologetics

Lies Girls Believe, Forensic Faith Kids

The Case for Christ, The Case for Grace

A Girls Guide to Making Really Good Choices

Family Subject: Bible Reading

Family Subject: Wise Up! Family Devotions in Proverbs

Family Subject: Trial and Triumph

Math 

Math-U-See Pre Algebra (almost done!)

Math-U-See Algebra

Legends of Learning - Math Games + Videos

Language Arts

IEW Fix It Grammar Level 3

Language Lessons for a Living Education 6

Word Up! 1 Vocabulary (maybe levels 2 + 3 this year...we'll see)

IEW Medieval History Based Writing Lessons

IEW Spelling Zoo

IEW Literature + Audiobook List

Family Subject: Brave Writer Dart + Arrow Book Club 

Family Subject: IEW Linguistic Development Through Poetry Memorization

Family Subject: A Stage Full of Shakespeare

Science

Guest Hollow Human Anatomy + Health

It Couldn't Just Happen

Exploring Creation with Botany

Gizmos Science Videos + Demonstrations

Social Studies

World Story 2: Medieval

Draw + Write Through History

Tuttle Twins Book Series

Tuttle Twins Logical Fallacies

Family Subject: Tuttle Twins Cartoon Season Three

Family Subject: Usborne Money + Economics Book Library

Family Subject: Tuttle Times Magazine

Exploring Fine Arts

God + The History of Art I

Piano Lessons

My Year Around the World

Watercolor + Pastels + Whittling

Beadlings

Family Subject: Hymn Study

Family Subject: Art Study

Exploring Careers

Sewing Lessons 

Quilting Lessons

Bear Grylls Survival Camp

Photography Books + Projects

American Heritage Girls

Health + Physical Education

Babysitting + First Aid Class @ Library

How to Be a Person

Technology

Big Fat Computer Science Notebook

Coding Projects in Python

Coding Games in Python

Crunch Labs Hack Packs

World Languages

Spanish for Children A

Spanish Children's Books from the Library

Our Plans at the Beginning :: Katie's Fourth Grade Year :: 2025 - 2026

This is our lineup of classes and resources for Katie's 4th Grade Year: 

Bible + Faith

Awana T&T Our Daily Bread Devotional Book 2 Masterbooks Elementary Apologetics Family Subject: Bible Reading Family Subject: Wise Up! Family Devotions in Proverbs Family Subject: Trial and Triumph

Math 

Math-U-See Pre Algebra

Logic Games

Legends of Learning

Language Arts

IEW Fix It Grammar 1 Language Lessons for a Living Education 4 Building Writers: Grade 4 IEW Discoveries in Writing IEW Spelling Zoo IEW Literature + Mom's Literature List Family Subject: Brave Writer Dart + Arrow Book Club Family Subject: IEW Linguistic Development Through Poetry Memorization Family Subject: A Stage Full of Shakespeare

Science

NOEO Biology 2

Apologia Zoology 1 Apologia Zoology 2 Apology Zoology 3 Snap Circuits

Memoria Press Astronomy

Generation Genius

Social Studies

Guest Hollow Geography + Cultures

Bookshark Level D: American History Part 1 Tuttle Twins Book Series Little School of Smiths: Unfolding Ancient Egypt Disasters in History Comic Book Family Subject: Tuttle Twins Cartoon Season Three Family Subject: Usborne Money + Economics Book Library Family Subject: Tuttle Times Magazine

Exploring Fine Arts

Lamb's Book of Art Piano Lessons My Year Around the World Claywork + Watercolor + Aquarellum Beadlings Family Subject: Hymn Study Family Subject: Art Study

Exploring Careers

Sewing Lessons Quilting Lessons Cross Stitch Cooking/Baking

Health + Physical Education

Safe at Home Class @ Library

How You are Changing

Technology

Coding Games in Scratch Coding Projects in Scratch Kiwi Co Eureka

Robotics/STEM Kits (Thames and Kosmos, etc) Snap Circuits See Inside Artificial Intelligence 100 Things to Know About Numbers, Computing, and Coding

The History of the Computer: People, Inventions, and Technology That Changed Our World

World Languages

Spanish for Children A

Spanish Children's Books from the Library

August 4 - August 10

This week we officially started back to school for the 2025-2026 school year!! 

Meghan was especially excited to be diving into the middle ages this year in history. It's been one of her favorite time periods to read about in the past and now she gets to study it as a part of school! 

Katie is learning cursive this year using grooved handwriting books to help her hands (which lack the bone and muscle development expected at her age) to form the letters correctly while learning. 

Her new art curriculum asked Meghan to try drawing with just her mouth - needless to say, it didn't go well and she has a new appreciation for the skills of Joni Erikson Tada. 

Fourth grade has brought a step up in the amount of reading expected of Katie each day. And she has happily risen to the challenge. She also made a lapbook this week about major types of geographical land forms - lapbooking is her happy place, which is good, because we have a lot planned for this school year. 

We are trying a new spelling program this year that teaches spelling words by sound rule and is on the computer. So far, so good. 

Katie worked on cross stitch during her handwork time and much of her free time and completed this cat keychain. She has several other cat and dog cross stitch kits and is already busy working away on her next one. 

Logic games - Katie decided to start the year with Cat Crimes and trying to decide who is responsible for causing the mayhem in the house.

First science experiment of the year - Meghan planted cat grasses in a terrarium in her room as a part of botany. To say she was excited by this project would be a complete understatement.

All-in-all, we had a great first week back to lessons. Not all parts of all subjects were loaded into the days yet, but what we did worked well and the girls did great!

July 28 - August 3, 2025

 Meghan enjoyed some time working on her clay while we listening to an audio book.

Last week of summer shenanigans: we dyed the girls' hair. They were inspired by the bright colors, wrote a story, and then posed for the pictures for the book! 

Katie started prealgebra (and is doing well!). 

We watched Nim's Island and drank icy tropical drinks after finishing the book together. 

Cuties working on lessons in their rooms. 

Katie finished her first (of many) geography lapbook of the year!

Cole needed to poke around in the attic this morning, so the girls were welcome to join him. Meghan enjoyed going up and in and helping Dad. Katie enjoyed poking her head in.

Meghan and Cole started work on her Hack Pack today - they built an IR Turret and had fun together!

Vacation to Houston

 We went to Houston for a family member's celebration of life. While we were an hour from the ocean, we decided to take the girls (along with their cousins) to the beach! We went to Galveston beach for a morning of beach and ocean play followed by a ferry ride. While on the ferry we saw all sorts of water fowl and tons of dolphins!! 

The next day, we went to the Houston Arboretum and Discovery Center. It was fun to compare the flora and fauna of Texas to our arboretum in Kansas. The kids also enjoyed the animals and curiosities in the Discovery Center.