Getting Ready for CtC

My oldest started Creation to Christ (from Heart of Dakota) this week.  Our goal is one unit over three weeks, as we are kind of in summer mode.  It is nice to start the guides at the beginning of the summer, work through them slowly while enjoying all of the summer things, and then be ready to go full speed when public schools start here in mid August.  Hopefully we will have 5-7 units done before then!

After finding one huge binder was not ideal with Preparing, I decided to go with smaller binders for CtC.  We will continue the same common place book and composition books for dictation and grammar.  We started the composition books back in Bigger, and they are still less than half full I think!  We do a large portion of Rod and Staff English orally, and we also do most of the workbook pages.  So that cuts down on how much gets put in the composition books.  As for dictation, we are still on Level 3.  We didn't do it as often as we should have I think, as it was something easily skipped.  We are trying to be more intentional about it now, so hopefully we can get through Level 3 by Thanksgiving, if not sooner! Here is everything but DITHOR on her shelf.  You will see math (Horizons 5 with the spiral bound answer key next to it), Dictation (in the teal report cover), Rod and Staff 5, and then a writing program we will try.  The rest is the guide, binders described below, and the books we will be using for the first few units.

Now for the set-up of everything else. I decided to do three 1/2in binders for CtC.  The first binder is for the history notebooking pages.  I also put a few page protectors in the back of the binder for history projects, etc.

The second binder is for science.  There are three sections to this binder: notebooking, lab, and questions.  I decided not to do page protectors this time around.  Hopefully it will work well.  Each section has the needed paper already hole punched and ready to go.

The third binder is for Bible study and geography.  I printed the maps and a few travel logs for geography from the CD that comes with the book.  For Bible study, I ended up printing Genesis 1-11.  You can just use your own Bible for this, but my daughter was not happy about having to mark up her Bible.  She has one she marks up a lot, and with so many markings, she wouldn't be able to read what we were doing for school.  So I was going to have her use one of her other Bibles (she has 3), but she wants to keep that one "clean."  I think there will be other paper things created, but I am unsure what they are at this point!