Wednesday, July 30, 2008

Trying to get organized for teaching school at home!

So I am in the list making phase in preparing for this years school. So far these are some of the ideas that I have for this years schooling. The areas that we are going to focus on. 

For my kindergartner:
Review her ABC's, numbers (letter recognition, sorting and some adding), Review colors, She knows how to write her name but I just want to work on her full name this year (first and last name), reading (she is already reading in the Dick and Jane books so I would like to continue reading in those and then move on to different books), weekly art projects, learning different songs, exercise and play time. 

We will spend 1 1/2 to 2 hours in school mode with her each day.

My Second Grader:
Addition, Subtraction and fractions, spelling, reading, writing, science, social studies, Health and exercise and games. 

Together projects:
  • In the morning before school we will continue our daily scripture study. Our goal is to read the whole Book of Mormon by the end of the school year. I wouldn't be surprised if we did it sooner.
  • Each month we will focus on a theme like September might be Oceans. So for example the  month of September we will learn all that we can about the ocean. Why is it salty?, different animals that live in it, what causes the waves?, how deep is it?, etc.  Then around the end of the month we will visit the ocean and explore all the things that we talked about. It will be fun to watch them discover the things that we studied.   At the end of each month we will have the kids present to us what they learned about this subject. I might even narrow the project subject to one thing like have my son focus on sharks and my daughter dolphins. I will post our monthly subject soon. Koby did this last year and it was great for him to get in front of his peers and present something. He grew so much from his first presentation to the last. It was fun to see. 
  • Library every other week. 
  • At least one field trip a month if not more.
  • They get to choose one extra curricular activity per season. This will give them some social interaction as well as church every Sunday. 

 

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