This is post two in my series sharing what we will be studying during the 2022-2023 school year.
Today is Language Arts!
Now normally, we use a lot of The Good and the Beautiful materials for Language Arts. I really do like this curriculum because it works for everybody, and has not only all of the Language Arts skills, but geography and art included as well.
This year however, we are going to take a little break from it-although I anticipate going back to it next year.
The boys are going to be doing very similar things this year.
Both will be doing Night Zoo Keeper. I really like this program. There is so much creative writing, and some fun grammar games too. It covers all of the different Language Arts disciplines, plus typing practice, and getting the chance to draw.

We are also going to be doing IEW Fix It! Grammar (Level 1 for The Little Guy, Level 2 for The Boy.) I had already decided to use IEW, so was very happy when it came up as a review product for the Homeschool Review Crew-free curriculum-yay!
This is a good program I previously used with The Girlio. I didn’t like Level 2 before because it felt like there was a big gap in ability between 1 and 2 (which is why we never continued with it), but they recently changed it, and it looks so much better.
And, we are going to do a book study together too.
We have never done a book study before, but I received this as a review product for the Homeschool Review Crew last year, and it looks like it has some interesting activities. We will see how it goes. We might pick and choose activities, or even just read the book-we will see. I mainly just want the boys to read this book-it’s so good! Any activities we do will just be a bonus.
The Girlio will also be utilizing a review product this year-Cover Story.
She really liked it, and so she decided she wanted to continue on with it for this school year, which is great.
I had already purchased The Good and the Beautiful High School 2, but we will just save that and use it next year. The Good and the Beautiful only has three years of high school available (the fourth year is for electives), so we are going to use this, and then do levels 2 and 3 the next two years.
For Spelling, we will be using Spelling Power. I really like this book. I have purchased many spelling books over the years, but like this one because it is comprehensive, and can be used for all of my kids.

We are still enjoying Spelling Shed as well, so we will be using that again this year. It’s a good way to practice their Spelling Power words in a fun way.

For Poetry, we are continuing to work our way slowly through IEW’s poetry program. We didn’t do this at all last year, but I do want to get back into it. We’ll see how it goes!

Well, that’s it for Language Arts for the 2022-2023 school year.
Next up in my series is Science and Geography, so stay tuned!