Whats in your closet ? Our Home School Curriculum 2013/2014

You know the Capitol One commercial that says whats in your wallet? Its the time of year people are asking whats in your Home school closet?  I know I am always curious what curriculum people are using ...so I will share mine. I am not sure what grade you would call this....we really don't use grade levels to determine what they learn. If you are reading this and are new to home school, most will tell you we teach to the child not the grade. I am using this with my 9 and 10 year old, my 9 year old is gifted my 10 year old is 2e (2e is twice exceptional, Gifted with some kind of learning challenges as well. ). I would assume parts of this curriculum would work with  gifted elementary school to middle/high school.

We use Georgia Virtual School an online high school for some of our classes. So far we like  it. There are parts we could do without, like the bi-weekly deadlines for assignments. Sometimes I feel the content isn't as full as it could be, but they do give many resources and web pages to supplement their material. The teachers are nice and the course is flexible. Georgia virtual school was opened up to Home school and Private School last year for free.

This year we are taking

9th grade literature and composition
Biology
and
U.S. History

For these i will supplement with the following resources.;

US History
-US history textbook ( have not brought it yet so i am not sure what brand...any kind will do as a physical reference. )
-Videos on Netflix for various history subjects
-The Crucible by Arthur Miller
- The Intellectual devotional American History - Kidder and Oppenheim

Biology
Biology - The unity and diversity of life ; Starr Taggart Evers Starr Tewlfth edition
Labs from home science tools
- Fetal Pig dissection kit
-Blood test kit
-Protozoa Culture Kit
-Microscope and lots of slides.
The Kingfisher Science Encyclopedia

9th gr Lit and Comp/Writing/Grammer/Lit
- Ga virtual for lit and comp
-Writing with Skill - Susan Wise Bauer
-The Creative Writer
-Wordly Wise

Classic Books
- The Temptest
- To Kill a Mocking Bird
- Robin Hood
-Beowulf
-The Crucible
-The Outsiders
- The Once and Future King
- Le Moret D'Aurtur
( Both books about King Arthur are for a unit study on history and legend of King Arthur. This lesson came from my love for the BBC television show Merlin)

Philosophy/Logic and Critical Thinking

Building critical thinking skills - The Critical Thinking Co.
Red Herring mysteries 1 - The Critical Thinking Co
Philosophy for kids - David White

Math
Teaching Textbooks Math 7
Life of Fred - Fractions
Khan academy ....when needed

Language
Rosetta Stone Latin

and Handwriting
Cursive Writing Practice Book

Wonder how long it will take to teach all this ? Well so far i have this totaling 5 hours of instruction daily. except Fridays...we go to Music Co-op. We will see how that works out. So now that  I have shared with you....Whats in your Homeschool Closet ? Leave a comment or picture?