Silver Moon Learning

Aug. 27, 2009

Joy's school plans for the year.

I really did have these finished before Tuesday morning. I just procrastinated blogging it. Joy's school stuff looks like: Grammar: First Language Lessons 3, five days a week, at this pace she'll have 3 and 4 finished by the start of fifth grade Spelling: Spelling Wisdom book one, five days a week, one lesson a week Writing: To start with, she's doing narrations and outlines of Aesop fables. About a month from now she'll move into Classical Writing: Aesop. Reading: lots and lots of real books Logic: She's starting Mind Benders, beginning book 2, doing about 2-3 puzzles a week. Vocabulary: English From the Roots Up, just one new word a week right now, will slowly increase to 3 a week as we adjust to the new school load Memory work: Daily practice. We're using the little boxes explained on Simply Charlotte Mason. She gets a fair amount of poetry, but leans toward pieces from history. She just recited the last paragraph of Patrick Henry's famous speech, The War Inevitable, this week. Penmanship: Just cursive practice, once or twice a week. Math: 4 days a week. MCP workbook right now. She'll munch it up in no time, she's been in it since spring. There's a random textbook waiting for her, and plenty of supplements on the web. History: Daily, every other week. Story of the World volume 1 will be her spine. Oodles of library and internet resources to flesh it out. Science: Daily, every other week, opposite history. She's in a bird book right now. It's written to her, like a living book, and is absolutely loaded with biology. She notebooks through it for the most part. When she finishes it's off to insects. Art: She really likes the Rod and Staff Artpacs. They're perfect rainy day activities and get her creative juices flowing every time. I want to get her something that teaches parts to whole with the masters, she has an interest in painting that I can't guide. I hadn't planned on adding logic and root vocab to her load just yet. She's familiar with those books because of her older brother using them, and begged for them by name. That's why they're such a light load too. She'd like me to increase them. After we've gone this way for awhile we'll reevaluate increasing those two.

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