Here's a mapping out of first week of school. We're of course still trying to figure things out, but this is a good start for our first week. This week and the coming weeks, will include lots of review, and we'll be taking things slow to get started. This is just a rough outline of what I hope to cover, we will cover more or less depending on how each day goes. I'm so excited for a new year!
*Family read alouds, poetry, unit study work, and activities:
-Bible-daily Proverbs; Keys for Kids; Character Building for Families-Orderliness ; Family Bible study-Romans; Daily Psalms reading
-Memory Work-Character building verses-Proverbs 20:11 ; Salvation verses-The Roman Road to Salvation; Speed drills; Poetry memorization-My Kingdom by Robert Louis Stevenson
-Poetry-A Child's Garden of Verses by Robert Louis Stevenson
-Literature-Chronicles of Narnia-The Horse and His Boy
-Littles Read alouds-Little House in the Big Woods, as well as lots of short books throughout the day.
-Unit Study read alouds-Middle ages-The Time Traveler's Guide to Medieval England; The Kitchen Knight; Select sections of Oxford's The Middle Ages; Geography will be utilized as we go along and look up various locations we read about
-Unit study activities-Stain glass art; Making a castle
*The Three R's:
-Nicholas-
-Reading-Devotional reading-Boyhood and Beyond; Unit study reading-The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood; Free reading
-Writing-Daily copy work from selected passages taken directly from our reading; Dictation 2-3 times a week from copy work; Cursive practice at least once a week (He knows cursive, but needs continued practice); Typing practice-twice a week; Daily writing-He must write every single day. All but two days of writing will be his choice, with two days of focused writing working on specific composition skills. This week we'll be focusing in on the paragraph, specifically working on topic sentences. Grammar focus-The seven parts of speech and making sure he's remembering the basics of punctuation and capitalization.
-Arithmetic-Khan academy review; 5-a-day reviews; Speed drills-three times a week; Maximum math activities; Life of Fred reading once a week
-Other-Keepers of the Faith Badge work-Right now he's working on orienteering along with Bible memory work
-Madelynn-
She is going to be working on doing exercises to help her with her cross dominance every day to help her with her cross dominance issues. I'll go further into this as we see some progress.
-Reading-Devotional reading-Beautiful Girlhood; Unit study reading- Not One Damsel in Distress-Molly Whuppie; Free reading
-Writing-Daily copy work from selected passages taken directly from our reading; Dictation 1-2 times a week from copy work; Cursive practice at least once a week (She also knows cursive, but needs continued practice); Typing practice-twice a week; Daily writing-She must write every single day. All but two days of writing will be her choice, with two days of focused writing working on specific composition skills. This week we'll be focusing in on the paragraph, specifically working on topic sentences. Grammar focus-The seven parts of speech and making sure she's remembering the basics of punctuation and capitalization.
-Arithmetic- 5-a-day review; speed drills; Maximum math activities; Life of Fred reading once a week
-Other-Keepers of the Faith Badge work-Sewing
-Emily-
She has really struggled this past year with school work. We found out it was because she was not hearing most of what was being said. She's since had surgery to put tubes in her ears that has drastically improved her hearing, however she is very behind in her reading and math skills, so we are working this year to get her caught up. She does have excellent handwriting and can proficiently write all her letters, many in cursive already, she's still not fully reading them all yet though.
-Reading and Writing-Learning Language Arts through Literature; Activities from The Three R's by Ruth Beechick.
-Arithmetic-We will be doing many hands on math activities using Math on the Level and Maximum Math. Focus for this week-reviewing comparisons, classifying and sorting, and patterns. We will also play lots of math games.
-Other-Keepers of the Faith Badge-coloring
-Jacob-
He's a preschooler. My only plans for him is to include him in any learning we are already doing. Making sure he's doing lots of coloring, playing with play dough, and reading to him as much as I can every day. He already knows through no teaching of mine, all of his letters and their sounds, and has even started sounding out words. I will be following his lead and teaching him as I feel like he's ready for it. He also is very good with numbers and adding and subtracting. He knows all his shapes, and is like a little sponge always soaking up information.
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