{"id":193,"date":"2021-08-19T15:50:25","date_gmt":"2021-08-19T15:50:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/homeschoolblogger.com\/therestfulhomeschool\/?p=193"},"modified":"2021-08-19T15:50:26","modified_gmt":"2021-08-19T15:50:26","slug":"what-school-looks-like-this-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/homeschoolblogger.com\/therestfulhomeschool\/2021\/08\/19\/what-school-looks-like-this-year\/","title":{"rendered":"What School Looks Like This Year"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"421\" src=\"https:\/\/homeschoolblogger.com\/therestfulhomeschool\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/102\/2021\/08\/KatieSchool20212022-2-1024x421.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-196\" srcset=\"https:\/\/homeschoolblogger.com\/therestfulhomeschool\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/102\/2021\/08\/KatieSchool20212022-2-1024x421.png 1024w, https:\/\/homeschoolblogger.com\/therestfulhomeschool\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/102\/2021\/08\/KatieSchool20212022-2-300x123.png 300w, https:\/\/homeschoolblogger.com\/therestfulhomeschool\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/102\/2021\/08\/KatieSchool20212022-2-768x316.png 768w, https:\/\/homeschoolblogger.com\/therestfulhomeschool\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/102\/2021\/08\/KatieSchool20212022-2-1536x632.png 1536w, https:\/\/homeschoolblogger.com\/therestfulhomeschool\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/102\/2021\/08\/KatieSchool20212022-2-850x350.png 850w, https:\/\/homeschoolblogger.com\/therestfulhomeschool\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/102\/2021\/08\/KatieSchool20212022-2.png 1872w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>This is the Excel sheet I set up for school this year. I began doing this last year, customizing it with her favorite colors and creating a new tab for each week so I have attendance recorded as well. I use Applecore via our <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/schoolhouseteachers.com\/dap\/a\/?a=43031\" target=\"_blank\">SchoolhouseTeachers.com membership<\/a> for grades and transcripts. Our daughter can also access this spreadsheet online and I can watch her &#8220;tick the boxes&#8221; throughout the day. This is the initial tab (I always put a color on the current week&#8217;s tab), which gives our resource links. I will also add specific assignments in before September. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here is what we are using for Katie&#8217;s sophomore year:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>Bible &#8211; <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Living-Exchange-Jeff-Musgrave\/dp\/1606821563\" target=\"_blank\">Living the Exchange <\/a>and <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/anchor.fm\/thequietrestpodcast\" target=\"_blank\">The Quiet Rest Podcast<\/a><\/li><li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/schoolhouseteachers.com\/school-subjects\/language-arts\/writing-2\/\" target=\"_blank\">Writing\/Spelling &#8211; Language Arts 2 <\/a>from SchoolhouseTeachers.com<\/li><li>Literature &#8211; <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/store.generations.org\/products\/great-christian-classics-four-essential-works-of-the-faith-vol-2\" target=\"_blank\">Great Christian Classics, Vol. 2<\/a> plus the other books listed above<\/li><li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/schoolhouseteachers.com\/school-subjects\/science\/general-biology\/\" target=\"_blank\">General Biology by Core Academy<\/a> via SchoolhouseTeachers.com<\/li><li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/learnmathfastbooks.com\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">Learn Math Fast Curriculum<\/a> (use code DENTED to get 20% off your order of $24 or more) plus <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ctcmath.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">CTC Math<\/a><\/li><li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/store.generations.org\/collections\/curriculum\/products\/america-in-gods-providence-set-2nd-edition\" target=\"_blank\">America in God&#8217;s Providence <\/a> for American History (this book is AMAZING)<\/li><li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/schoolhouseteachers.com\/school-subjects\/electives\/leadership-101\/\" target=\"_blank\">Leadership 101<\/a> (elective) via SchoolhouseTeachers.com<\/li><li>I&#8217;m using <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/frugalfun4boys.com\/40-old-fashioned-skills-for-kids-today\/\" target=\"_blank\">this resource<\/a> for elective credit for Katie to learn different Practical Life Skills<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>For second semester and next year I&#8217;m tentatively looking at:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/store.generations.org\/products\/god-and-government\" target=\"_blank\">Government\/Civics <\/a>&#8211;  (an excellent resource from Generations.org which features books rich in Christian world view, apologetics, and critical thinking)<\/li><li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/schoolhouseteachers.com\/school-subjects\/science\/animal-science-class\/\" target=\"_blank\">Animal Science<\/a> (elective) &#8211; via SchoolhouseTeachers.com (looking forward to a possible career in animal science&#8230;she earned .5 credits this summer working with a volunteer program at our local zoo, and will earn more elective credit this year working with our city animal shelter)<\/li><li>Vocabulary\/Spelling &#8211; using<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.vocabulary.com\/lists\/137567\" target=\"_blank\"> this list <\/a>of &#8220;100 Words Every High Schooler Should Know&#8221; <\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/schoolhouseteachers.com\/school-subjects\/drama-and-speech\/public-speaking-introduction\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Public Speaking<\/a> &#8211; via SchoolhouseTeachers.com <\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is the Excel sheet I set up for school this year. I began doing this last year, customizing it with her favorite colors and creating a new tab for each week so I have attendance recorded as well. I use Applecore via our SchoolhouseTeachers.com membership for grades and transcripts. Our daughter can also access&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":155,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[160,162,159,12,164,158,155,24,157,166,2,161,22,156,165,163,19,3,31,5],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/homeschoolblogger.com\/therestfulhomeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/homeschoolblogger.com\/therestfulhomeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/homeschoolblogger.com\/therestfulhomeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/homeschoolblogger.com\/therestfulhomeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/155"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/homeschoolblogger.com\/therestfulhomeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=193"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/homeschoolblogger.com\/therestfulhomeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":197,"href":"https:\/\/homeschoolblogger.com\/therestfulhomeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193\/revisions\/197"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/homeschoolblogger.com\/therestfulhomeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/homeschoolblogger.com\/therestfulhomeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/homeschoolblogger.com\/therestfulhomeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}