Yay!
I sat down today and STARTED lesson planning. It was for Samantha. For her, we are continuing with some curriculums that we had started last year. But, we hadn't quite finished the edition we had for last year, so my initial planning had to incorporate the remaining lessons from last year's edition and THEN start in on this year's edition.
Her math is the most difficult. I have Saxon 8/7. A lot of it is repeated from 7/6. I don't want her to just "do it again" kind of thing. AND, as I was reading through a few lessons I found some terminology or things that seem NEW. So, I'm trying to figure out how to proceed along in that book. I'm going to have her take the pre-test as a "Warm up" and then the tests in sequence in the book, throwing in a lesson here and there, until we reach a point that its too much new stuff. Then, we'll hit the lessons in full force. I also have a Word Problem Book and Logic books that we want to incorporate this year, so its a bit of a struggle.
I sat down and I wrote down the first few weeks of Wordly Wise Vocabulary and Sequential Spelling. Then, I pulled out my Sonlight LA IG for her. There were spaces right there to write it in. What they had proposed was completely different than what I am doing, but I just put a single pencil line through what they had and put my own lessons. So, all of her "Language Arts" is together, including Grammar Ace, Spelling, Vocabulary, Handwriting, and Creative Writing. I like it. I MAY or MAY NOT even load it into Homeschool Tracker, because it seems so easy this way. If only they left room for Math on there, I'd be set.
Tomorrow I need to look over Michael's subjects, many of which are just continuing from last year, and figure out what we are doing. And then I need to look at History and Science, which we are doing together. History corresponds with Samantha's LA, so I need those to be in synch as much as possible, but the Science is up to me to just start picking some experiments and doing them.
And I need to schedule Latin for Samantha. My brain was tired when I got there, so I just stopped and figured that I wouldn't start it on week 1 anyway. |
