Silver Moon Learning

Aug. 20, 2009

The first grade plans.

I'm not too far behind on finalizing plans. I mean, I can still procrastinate until Tuesday. Here's the plan Honor will be starting out with. I fully expect it to morph constantly as he grows. Everything is written in pencil for just that reason! Daily: memory work (poetry mostly) spelling reading lesson (reading primers, dr suess, etc. to me) grammar and copywork will stagger with each other math science or history (weekly rotation) For history and science I've put him on Joy's week. Joy and Justice stagger weeks with those two subjects. They move at such different speeds that keeping them in the same lesson was driving me mad. Then we ran into problems with shared resources being needed by both on the same day. I think Honor will handle Joy's speed just fine. Joy will have similar notebooking and extra reading assignments, just on a higher level obviously. Knowing Joy, she'll love "mentoring" him (mothering him? lol) on these subjects. I'm banking on that to help improve her own narration skills, but that's a story for the post on her plans. History. Once the big two finish up the remainders of the American history stuff we have, we'll roll history around to the ancients again. That ought to take a couple/few weeks still. When the rollover hits we'll put Honor into the mix (he's absorbing tons of the American history as it is). Science: Joy is in the middle of our bird book right now, I don't want to start Honor in the middle. I've got a pile of living books stocked up for him on all sorts of animals, and one on plants too. Honor, Grace and I will do read alouds with those until Joy is in a better place to slip him in.

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