Planning the first week of school
It only took about an hour. Hopefully it will not take this long every Sunday night.
We're starting school on Wednesday. I originally thought we'd start on Tuesday, but Brent doesn't have to work so I gave us the day off too, knowing that trying to do something like that while 'fun Papa' is home would be a waste of time.
So here's the initial plan of how it's going to go.
Every day will start out reading a passage from the Old or New Testament (alternating days). I got the passages from here.
Then is math. I'll make up worksheets daily. First day is counting and some adding (with circles to count). He does know how to count, but he forgets how to write the number symbol. So that's partially what we're going to be practicing.
Next is Reading Practice. We're starting out with Little Bear and then will move on to Frog and Toad.
Every day we'll have 'Drills' which is not memory drills (although we'll have that too) but exercises like touch your toes, jumping jacks, etc.
Then it varies day to day
Poetry: Mother Goose
Literature: Aesop's Fables. We're also reading the Lion, Witch and the Wardrobe before bed.
Science: This term we're learning about Spiders
History: Learning about Knights
Geography: Reading Paddle to the Sea which unfortunately has not come in the mail yet, so I'm not sure what we'll do this week. Probably just play around with the globe a bit.
Art Appreciation: We're learning about Winslow Homer this term. Not sure if he's related, but I did pick him because of his last name. First painting we're studying is The Dinner Horn
Song: Jesus Loves Me. Also one day a week we're doing rhythm practice since he really likes to play the drums and we can't get lessons for him yet.
The day concludes with:
Copywork - this is really just handwriting practice, but it is copying a sentence from something we read that day.
Dictation - which is spelling practice, but in sentences instead of just lists of words. We're starting easy with God is love.
ASL is our foreign language for the year, so we can talk with my niece
Then Scripture Memory - this week is "Give thanks to the Lord, for He is good. His love endures forever." (Psalm 136:1)
We will end the day by going outside to play, and taking a nature walk once per week.
Whew - that's a day. It will be fun I think. I have a lot of ideas for the future, but I'm trying to take one step at a time for Andrei and not overload him. The passages are pretty easy, because if it's too hard he'll tune it out. The only reason he listens to L,W, and the W, is because he's seen the movie 10 times so he knows the story. I'm a little nervous his knight book is too hard, but we'll just take it slow and steady. I won't ruin him.... i hope.
We're starting school on Wednesday. I originally thought we'd start on Tuesday, but Brent doesn't have to work so I gave us the day off too, knowing that trying to do something like that while 'fun Papa' is home would be a waste of time.
So here's the initial plan of how it's going to go.
Every day will start out reading a passage from the Old or New Testament (alternating days). I got the passages from here.
Then is math. I'll make up worksheets daily. First day is counting and some adding (with circles to count). He does know how to count, but he forgets how to write the number symbol. So that's partially what we're going to be practicing.
Next is Reading Practice. We're starting out with Little Bear and then will move on to Frog and Toad.
Every day we'll have 'Drills' which is not memory drills (although we'll have that too) but exercises like touch your toes, jumping jacks, etc.
Then it varies day to day
Poetry: Mother Goose
Literature: Aesop's Fables. We're also reading the Lion, Witch and the Wardrobe before bed.
Science: This term we're learning about Spiders
History: Learning about Knights
Geography: Reading Paddle to the Sea which unfortunately has not come in the mail yet, so I'm not sure what we'll do this week. Probably just play around with the globe a bit.
Art Appreciation: We're learning about Winslow Homer this term. Not sure if he's related, but I did pick him because of his last name. First painting we're studying is The Dinner Horn
Song: Jesus Loves Me. Also one day a week we're doing rhythm practice since he really likes to play the drums and we can't get lessons for him yet.
The day concludes with:
Copywork - this is really just handwriting practice, but it is copying a sentence from something we read that day.
Dictation - which is spelling practice, but in sentences instead of just lists of words. We're starting easy with God is love.
ASL is our foreign language for the year, so we can talk with my niece
Then Scripture Memory - this week is "Give thanks to the Lord, for He is good. His love endures forever." (Psalm 136:1)
We will end the day by going outside to play, and taking a nature walk once per week.
Whew - that's a day. It will be fun I think. I have a lot of ideas for the future, but I'm trying to take one step at a time for Andrei and not overload him. The passages are pretty easy, because if it's too hard he'll tune it out. The only reason he listens to L,W, and the W, is because he's seen the movie 10 times so he knows the story. I'm a little nervous his knight book is too hard, but we'll just take it slow and steady. I won't ruin him.... i hope.
Labels: Andrei, Homeschooling
posted by Tracy at 10:29 PM
5 Comments:
You will not ruin him!! I'm sure your year will be great. I have two suggestions: 1. I think making math worksheets every day will get old fast. I really like Rod and Staff's math and they start out doing exactly what you are talking about doing - learning what the number symbols represent and how to write them. 2. You might want to consider working your way into schooling slowly. You mentioned a lot of subjects and it might be overwhelming for both of you to start them all at once. You're going to do great!
Yeah, Rod and Staff was my other math consideration - I really liked looking at your book that one time. If this fails, that's what I'm going for next.
Also, not every subject is every day - just the basic 3 Rs and then we'll alternate the other stuff.
I'm going for short and sweet for everything so hopefully we'll be done in under 2 hours every day.
How long do you 'teach' every day? I know this first year will be a lot of hands on for me, but I'm hoping in the future it will be more "Read this and get back to me when you're done" :)
Since your geography stuff didn't come in the mail, could you start w/the 7 continents and 5 oceans? I just did that w/my 3rd grade summer school kids. It's actually a 2nd grade skill acc. to DPI. I made copies of a blank world map and colored only one thing, like a flashcard. Then they needed to ID the continent or ocean. We also worked on N,S,E,W and talked about how even tho we use flat maps, the world is really round, so we compared the 2 by cutting open a paper globe. I'm sure Andrei will enjoy diff things at diff times, and I'm sure you will do an awesome job. You're his mom, you know him best and I'm proud of you for making this choice based on your son's needs! The service you do will translate to love, maybe not to Andrei right away, but to the rest of us spying on you via your blog =)
I don't know how much I teach every day - not as much as I'd like to! I am going to try to be on more of a schedule this year, but in the past we have been pretty laid back about when things get done, so no two days were really alike. A lot of my time last year was spent with the twins on pre-reading and then reading activities and I won't have to do any of that this year. While they were doing that, the other ones were able to do some of their work on the computer and some reading independently, so I didn't do a lot of other teaching. That needs to change though :) I want to do more "teaching" of science and history because I think they get more out of it then. Sorry - that didn't really answer your question :(
No - that answers my question - that's reality! :)
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