I can’t believe another school year is already here! Jackson turned six in May and finished his Kindergarten year. This year I have registered him as an official first grader even though last year I challenged him with a first grade curriculum. I am planning on taking the first four to six weeks to continue with some first grade Math skills. We will review our unit on time, money, and measurement of liquids before starting our second grade curriculum. I will also do the same in Reading, expecting him to work in second grade. I have the flexibility to tweak it as we go along because I just don’t feel as a six year old first grader, he is completely ready for the independence required for all second grade skills just yet.
As with Abigail, she will be an official Preschooler/Pre-K this year. She has mastered both identifying as well as writing all of her ABC’s…on most days. We will focus the year on improving her handwriting and continue to learn the sounds for each as well as blending into words. My goal is to have her reading by the end of the year…we’ll see. In her Math, she can count and write to 100 however from time to time, does forget how to write some of them and lacks a specific confidence I’d like to see. We will also work on patterns, comparing numbers, and simple addition and subtracting. Mostly I will continue to follow her lead. Some days she works very hard and is open to really trying to learn, other days the motivation seems to be lacking. She will also follow along in Science, Social Studies, and other areas with Jackson. I’m looking to expose her to the world of learning at this point rather than expecting complete mastery. With her, I am hoping to see the light click on and her feel the joy of learning something new.
Finally, Isabela is ALWAYS the one that wants school time with Jackson and Abigail. It is no pushing her to come sit with a pencil and paper or crayons. Se will continue to be exposed to life and hopefully love to learn about the world around her.
Our second journey of homeschooling awaits us!
SPELLING, daily
We will be finishing up ABEKA Grade 1, list 20-30
I will then combine list from Macmillan and All About Reading, as well as vocabulary words from other areas in our curriculum
READING, daily
We will be finishing in Grade 1 of Macmillan/McGraw-Hill before moving on to Grade 2
By Christmas I hope to be using All About Reading Level 3
PHONICS, daily
Steck-Vaugn Level C, Grade 2
ENGLISH, Monday, Wednesday, and Friday
First Language Lessons of the Well Trained Mind, Level 2
I will also take from Houghton Mifflin and Macmillan/McGraw-Hill
DOL determined by me
MATH, daily
Harcourt Math Grade 2
SCIENCE, twice weekly (Abigail will be included)
Biology for the Grammar Stage, 1 and 2 where we will have 20 weeks of a study of animals, 10 weeks of studying the human body, and 6 weeks for studying plants
Harcourt Science Level 1
We will continue to observe the life around us where we live, in the vineyard, and in The Great Smoky Mountains National Park
SOCIAL STUDIES/GEOGRAPHY, twice weekly (Abigail will be included)
Houghton Mifflin 1, Schools and Neighborhoods as well as map skills
We will continue our exposure to naming and locating the fifty states in the USA
BIBLE, daily (Abigail will be included)
Jesus Storybook Bible, 45 story/Lessons from the Old and New Testament
100 Bible Stories by Stephen Elkins, story/verse/song from the Old and New Testament
We will also be completing our character study using We Choose Virtues. Lessons and Vocabulary will consist of learning…I am PERSEVERANT, PATIENT, SELF-CONTROLLED, OBEDIENT, CONTENT, FORGIVING, ATTENTIVE, DILIGENT, KIND, GENTLE, HELPFUL, and HONEST.
HANDWRITING, daily (Abigail will be included)
Determined by me including copy work, dictation, and creative writing
We will be working with Literature Pockets Folktales and Fairy Tales, Grade K-1
The stories and activities we will use are “The Little Red Hen, The Three Little Pigs, Goldilocks and the Three Bears, The Gingerbread Man, Little Red Riding Hood, The Three Billy Goats Gruff, and Too Much Noise”
Also we will complete Draw-Write-Now, A Drawing and Handwriting Course for Kids, Book 1, On the Farm, Kids and Critters, and Storybook Characters
SPANISH (Abigail will be included)
Introduction to Spanish Latin America Level 1 using RosettaStone Homeschool
Wish us well on our exciting adventure!
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