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Angel's Blog - Andrew's school day-kindergarten
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Psalms and Genesis
Our Curriculum:
Horizons Math Grade 4 and K,Sequential Spelling, Lifepac Language Arts 4, Apologia Astronomy, Veritas Press New Testament/Greeks/Romans
Prima Latina, Contenders for the Faith and various Winters Promise books, Live Mocha Spanish, Plants Grown Up
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May. 18, 2009 - Andrew's school day-kindergarten
A friend asked about our typical day and I was kind of at a blank because each day is so different.
So I tried to use today as an example for Andrew. We wake up and the boys do chores. Andrew puts the dogs out, feeds them, makes his bed, gets dressed and brushes his teeth. He then checks if the dishwasher is clean and puts away the silverware (though Abigail is starting to take this job over). Then we have breakfast and then try and squeeze in some work before "Daddy time" (the hour I get to chat with him each morning on Facebook chat) . Plus he is most attentive in the morning. He seems to loose concentration as the day goes on.
First we did reading:
We're using The Reading Lesson as I have posted about before (and still LOVING it)
But today after his lesson I decided to do his word list a little differently to mix it up, so we used our handy scrabble tiles
We had some extra time and he wanted to keep working so we did a couple pages in his phonics workbook as well.
Then I had Daddy time, while he colored in his new Dover coloring books(an awesome garage sale find! We got 5 brand new ones. )
Sometimes at this point, we would do math(Horizons Kindergarten), but it just didn't happen today. We did drill counting by 10s, 2s and 5s.
Then we sat on the couch and did a few pages of Come Look With Me: Landscapes. We are using a copy from the library. Normally I don't do a lot of art appreciation but I really liked this book. And the boys are enjoying it too, especially Andrew.
I also have been leaning towards more mellow music these days (maybe I am getting old) and discovered my boys LOVE Handel and Bach! We've been playing these CDs from the library through the day and when I put the CD player on shuffle the boys can usually tell me if it is Handel or Bach (I cant!). And they have been asking to learn more about these composers as well as others, so we'll be following their interest and doing that.
Andrew and I have been reading the Moody series out loud, through out the day as well. We're on the 3rd book, Winter with the Moodys right now.
We tried starting Andrew with Draw Write Now, and while he LOVES the drawing part he's not quite ready for that much writing.
Other than that he listened in on Peter's geography, occasionally asking questions, and running over to see the pictures periodically. (It would be the same for History or Science, but we haven't done those yet today)
