Grade 2 Plan in the Making

Getting into the swing of this planning in advance business which homeschoolers seem to do (I follow by example! LOL!) We're starting formulate our plans for next year's curriculum. At M's request we will try an all K12 curriculum for next year, despite the fact that I've been told its very time consuming. I think it will give her a good taste of how hard she'd work in day school if she went but hopefully we'll still have time play. I'm also hoping that this will give me a good foundation from which to work out my own curriculum for the following year. I've learned a lot through our History and Science dabblings this year - enough to know that I think I could actually do those on my own in the near future but will hang out for the year just so we have the basics covered!

LANGUAGE ARTS
- K12 Language arts (Grade ?)

I'm nervous about the Language program, just because I don't think they'll position her right. Not to brag or boast about her capabilities but she's an extremely AVID reader (reads faster and hence than me!) So I think this will be our challenge subject. I think she needs the guidance of a structured program, I'm just not sure what direction she needs at the moment.

MATH
- K12 Math (Grade 2)

HISTORY/GEOGRAPHY
- K12 History (Grade 2)

SCIENCE
- K12 Science (Grade 2)

LANGUAGES
- Sign Language (need to find better program - maybe Signing Times Videos + more)
- Spanish (is it the right time?? need to find a better program here too!)

I'm not really happy with what we're using here and need to find something better. I'm tempted to let the Spanish sit for a year or 2 and just focus on the sign since we have both an interest and a need for it. That way when S is ready to start "schooling" we can include her in the spoken Spanish lessons and go from there.

ARTS/CRAFTS/MUSIC
- K12 Art (Grade 2)
- K12 Music (Beginning 1)
- various projects
- extracurricular art classes as appropriate

I'm not sure if we will use the K12 Art and music but it seems to fit with everything else we're doing and I have no plan currently in place to cover these subjects. Our library doesn't seem to have the resources I want access to for the breadth of what I want to cover so I'm tossing my hands up here! I can teach crafts like Knitting, sewing, hand embroidery, crochet, etc.... she has expressed an interest and aptitude in sewing (hand and machine) and cross stitch, so we're good on crafts and will just follow interests!

EXTRACURRICULAR
- Brownies
- outside classes as interest deems necessary

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I think we've got a good skeleton here to work with for the time being. It'll be a matter of finalizing things which we'll do before end of May.

If anyone out there reading has an absolute favourite program that they want to share, I'd love to check it out! :) I feel like I'm doing so much better this year in my planning than last year! (question is where will it lead me! LOL! Trouble no doubt!)