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Creative Play Bilingual Homeschool
Oct. 3, 2009
Homeschool update
I would call this a Weekly update, however, since I'm no good at doing this weekly I'll just call it an update.
I'm currently student teaching this semester, and had been scrambling to find someone to care for dd while I'm in the classroom during the day. There were a couple of homeschool families that stepped up to help, and then my mother-in-law came to visit and dh convinced her to stay until I finish.
So, last week, I had dd and a Kindergarten nephew. Went to do classroom observations for a couple of hours, went home to teach and leave independent work, then back to the school. We also did (tried to do) activities when I left the school.
So, hmmm. What did we accomplish? She completed All About Spelling level 1 and the rest of the week I went through and did some review. She's carrying over some of the spelling rules she's learned into her writing, as I found out when we began working on a paragraph. It was great! She's working to finish her Lectura 3 from Rod & Staff. I haven't yet begun her writing journal, or the fluency readings for either language.
She completed several exercises in Singapore 2 A and B, in addition/subtraction, multiplication/division, and geometry. Her 4th grade Spanish math book is also moving along in the same topics. There are 12 topics in her math book, and we are covering just one topic a day, in order to spread out how long she is working on each topic (instead of 3 weeks in each topic, moving on, and forgetting everything by the end of the year). We're doing numbers on Monday, which right now consists of reading and writing numbers to millions. I've decided to drop millions for now, and move on to the rest of the topics in that chapter. She'll see it again in Singapore down the line. On Tuesdays, it's addition and subtraction, Wednesdays multiplication and division, and Thursdays are geometry.. I may switch Wednesdays and Thursdays so operations aren't back to back. That should give some processing time for her. As we finish a topic on a particular day, we'll just move to the next topic to fill that day. Fridays, I've been wanting to do MEP, but haven't got to it.
We did one science activity this week. I purchased the Properties of Ecosystems that goes along with the new ECC, so the children were out in the garden doing the observations. My K nephew just wanted to take a hatchet and dig holes!
I had my nephew working on /a/ (Spanish); tracing in shaving cream, choosing pictures from magazines, and covering an "A" with algodon (cotton). It seems like it was too much for my mother-in-law to handle two only-children, and sent him to my sister-in-law who lives 20 minutes from here. She has three boys of her own (one married with a son and one on the way), and her husband is home on disability. I sent a bunch of work with him, as he's been pulled out of school to be here.
She's doing well in her Ballet classes on Tuesdays and Fridays. She also auditioned to be in the Christmas dance program and she made it!
We (mother-in-law and daughter) went on a field trip with the homeschool group on Friday which turned out to be a lot of fun, though tiring!
This was our first week with this arrangement with MIL, so not as much got done as I wanted. I will be putting together a weekly independent work sheet and placing weekly work in her workboxes. She can work on those while I'm in school, and when I get out, I'll do her math, spelling, writing, and geography readings/lessons. We'll see how it works out next week that way. I have a lot of preparation to do!
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