I bought the NP Lesson Plans for First Grade.  It was supposed to be used as a guide to assist me in writing my own curriculum.  Well it looks like I've decided to use it for History, Literature, and even Bible.

I could use it for Science also but I think I want to do animals and plants in science first rather than oceanography and meteorology so I'm gonna use the magazines we get called Your Big Backyard and just put together some assignments for her from those.  Since she reads very well for a 6 year old I've been trying to steer her more towards doing some of her assignments on own.  She'll curl up on her bed and read a page here and there.  I find if I'm not sitting next to her she won't read long.  So I am working on having her read the short story about the Panda bear, for example, and answer questions about it.  They have a book you can cut out in each issue and make a story with the pages you cut out...and it has other things to read and observe.  I think that is sufficient for right now for science.

So back to the NP Lesson Plans...my plan is to use it for the remainder of this year.  That will free me up to continue writing(and giving me more ideas to write about) for next year's history/lit/bible lessons.  I already have my Literacy and Math ready to go(I've posted those lesson plans previously on this blog).

The only thing I have left to do is to get their notebooks together but I think I'll let them set their notebooks up.  That could be part of our class time.  Which reminds me I need to put some scriptures together that talk about stewardship and such which could lead me into introducing Self-Government, Christian Character, Conscience and Property(paraphrased).