Aug. 29, 2009
What I have planned for Homeschool year 2
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How did I come up with "what to do"? Well, I started out with "what is expected of a 3-4 year old child in public school. I used the World Book Encyclopedia's guidelines (Worldbook Encyclopedia, Recommended Course of Study) and I looked at what my state (Pennsylvania) required/expected. I used HSLDA's links for that (Homeschooling thru the Early Years) Then I thought about what we (hubby and I) wanted for him. That included reading, writing, physical education, character training, manners and, most importantly, God. I then wanted to know where he was in comparison to what he should be doing. I am hours away from friends and family so sometimes I feel like I am parenting in a vacuum. I also struggle with being a decade or so older than my nieces and nephews who are parenting kids the same age as Danny. But that is my problem that I have been working on (I DO give it over to God to work on, but I keep picking it back up again to deal with myself---yeah that ALWAYS works--NOT!!). SOOOOO....I read lots of blogs of other moms who homeschool this age group. That helps alot! I found this website: 1+1+1=1 and copied off her Assessments. From running thru the assessments with Danny, I found that he needs to work on most lower case letters, the color grey, I spent almost 13 years devising curriculum for people of differing cognitive abilities. I tend toward looking at curriculum (that others have produced...why re-invent the wheel?) and use it as a spring board to adapt and modify as needed for the needs of my son or my nephews or whomever I am working with. So, with that in mind, here is what we are going to start out with: Beginning Kids' Quest-Catechism Club Vol. 1 God made the World and Me (pre-school edition) Teach Your Child To Read In 100 Easy Lessons Leap Frog's Letter Factory and Word Factory series of DVDs God's Might Warrior Devotional Bible Singapore Math Saxon Math (both of these later in the fall probably around November) All About the Weather Unit Study (freebie from Brandenburg Studies) Seasons, Trees and Me! (august book bag, 2000 from Teacher Book Bag--the whole years worth of stuff for Pre-K-1--good price, 19.99) These will be interspersed with various freebies from the web. I plan to put up most of them, but I got them from other bloggers so chances are HUGE that there is nothing new in them.  Art and Music will be interspersed with the other activities. Our Schedule (ha!): Prayer Pledge of Allegiance Devotions God made the World and Me (Science) Outside/Exercise DVD for about 15 minutes Back in, small snack Catechism Reading (Teach your child to read... and Leap Frog videos) Writing (art activity with letters--ideas from the blog: notimeforflashcards) Helping with Dinner Feed the dog as needed and other tasks During mealtimes (lunch and breakfast) we will be reading from various books pertaining to a theme (like the alphabet) as well as books of his choice. I read to him between 15 minutes to 45 minutes over the course of any given day. That is it so far! He is Risen, Just as He said! |
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