A Stable Beginning: 2025 ~ 2026 Plan of Study: 6th & 10th grades

Friday, July 4, 2025

2025 ~ 2026 Plan of Study: 6th & 10th grades

My final two...my baby girl and baby boy! Not sure how we have gotten to this point, yet, here we are! I am excited for this new season in our homeschool. It's been an extremely busy year...I feel like I have just come up for air and being able to process everything that is forth coming. Our courses have been picked since the beginning of February, but I just have not had the chance to breathe and sit and put this blog post together until now. I do love this time of the year though! Seeing what everyone is planning to use is exciting to me. Once again I am grateful to be able to take advantage of the a la carte courses from Veritas Press Scholars Academy to continue giving my children a classical education model.

Without further ado below you will find the Plan of Study for my two youngest, McKenzie & Micah, who will be going into 10th and 6th grade.

I've said it once and I'll say it again, once you hit high school the time flys by so quickly! How is my baby girl heading into 10th grade!? Nevertheless, here we are and we are going full steam ahead with sophomore year. McKenzie will be taking three online courses, Honors Comp II, Honors Chemistry, and German I. She is most excited about finally officially starting to learn German. She has been self teaching herself with Duolingo and speaking/practicing with Mikayla who also is learning German. I guess this means I need to up my German language too because Micah has hinted that he may study German instead of Spanish too. McKenzie will take her first ACT in October to give us a baseline for where she is at. She still has her eyes set on being a collegiate gymnast and has expressed an interest in The Ivey's or a small D2/3 school so I want to make sure academically she is ready if we go that route. Her co-op courses this year will count as part of her electives to round out her course of study. She will continue to train during the morning for gymnastics which has been working for her. I hope to implement a better evening schedule so we are not up too late studying, especially because she is going to be doing Chemistry.

McKenzie's 10th Grade Plan of Study:

Bible {1 credit}

~ Sonlight Bible 320

Math {1.5 credit}

~ Saxon Algebra 2 with 1/2 credit of Geometry with Nicole the Math Lady

Honors English 10 {1 credit}

~ Composition II, online with Veritas Press Scholars Academy

~ Rod & Staff Grammar, 9/10, Book 2

Article of the Week {current events only - oral discussion}

~ SAT / ACT Vocabulary study

Honors Science {1 credit}

~ Apologia Chemistry, online with Veritas Press Scholars Academy

Honors Literature {1 credit}

~ Sonlight Core 300 20th Century Literature

Honors History {1 credit}

~ Sonlight Core 300 ~ 20th Century World History

Foreign Language {1 credit}

~ German I, online with Veritas Press Scholars Academy

Electives

~ Home Economics {1 credit}

~ Home Economics Household and Personal Management Skills

~ Home Economics Kitchen Skills

~ Create & Publish a Children's Book @ co-op {1/2 credit}

~ Theater @ co-op {1/2 credit}

~ Personal Finance @ co-op {1 credit}

PE {1 credit}

~ Level 9 Gymnastics, 28 hours a week

Extras

~ ACT Prep (30 minutes/day)

Total yearly credits: 10.5 credits

Wowzers my baby boy is heading to middle schooll! Sixth grade is when we start our college prep course of study with science and Latin and it's no different this year for Micah. I didn't think he would be ready when we started 5th grade but he has grown leaps and bounds over the past year and I am excited to be at this point with him. This year will be a little different as he has requested to do more online classes with Veritas Press Scholars Academy. At first, I was a little bit in my own feelings, but I also understand that he works better not being fully accountable to me. We did compromise and say that we can try it out, but I still want to do our history together because even if he decides to stick with online classes I don't think I am willing to give up our Sonlight for Omnibus. Especially since his 4 older sisters are proof that Sonlight H/B/L "works" and fully prepares a child for university (not to say Veritas does not either). If six live courses turn out to be too intense and stressful we can and will drop a few. Honestly though I think he will be fine and this year I will be helping him manage his time and courses by checking his work and fully making sure he completes all components so he is prepared for class meetings. He is excited to have a male teacher this year for General Science and to be able to be in his Grammar & Writing course with a close family friend. For our weekly co-op we will continue to use those courses to bring the beauty and enrichment to our homeschool.

Micah's 6th Grade Plan of Study:

Bible

~ Veritas Press Gospels Self-Paced Bible

Math

~ Saxon 7/6 , online with Veritas Press Scholars Academy

Language Arts

~ A Reason for Writing, Book F

~ Linguistics 6 online with Veritas Press Scholars Academy

~ Shurley Grammar 6, online with Veritas Press Scholars Academy

~ IEW Structure & Style Writing, Year 1-Level 1B, online with Veritas Press Scholars Academy

~ Veritas Press Literature 6, online with Veritas Press Scholars Academy

He will read:

The Yearling, Fahrenheit 451, Little Women, Around the World in Eighty Days, The Call of the WIld, A Christmas Carol, The Jungle Book, Kidnapped, White Fang, and The Fellowship of the Ring: The Lord of the Rings: Part 1

History/Geography

~ Sonlight Core G – Ancient History, we will complete the 2nd half of this curriculum

~ Veritas Press Self-Paced History – Middle Ages, Renaissance & Reformation

Project Passport ~ Middle Ages Homeschool in the Woods

Science

~ Apologia General Science , online with Veritas Press Scholars Academy

Latin

~ Latin Transition 1 , online with Veritas Press Scholars Academy

Baseball – Fall: Select training program, Spring: Middle School baseball team

Weekly Co-Op

~ Missions & Geography

~ Myths & Legends