The Great Homeschool Experiment

And Away We go!

9:33 AM, Jun. 4, 2007 .. 3 comments .. Link
I’ve decided that I need to know if I CAN homeschool or not, so I’m going to spend the summer actually formally homeschooling Rebekah. I’m going to plan out my lesson plans for the week on Fridays and I think to make it easy on myself, I’m going to concentrate on a single letter per week, so next week will be A week. I found a great site that has activities for each day based on the letter of the week. Next week looks like this… Day 1 is Apple day. We’ll do an apple craft, she can help me cut apple slices, the Bible story will be the Garden of Eden Day 2: Arm day, Arm exercises, the hokey pokey, Sampson Bible story Day 3: Animal Day, Read Goodnight Gorilla book and do activity (if I can find it at the library), let her feed our animals, animal coloring pages, Noah Bible story Day 4: Ark Day: Noah’s ark craft, questions and review of Noah Bible story Day 5: ant day, ant hill craft, nature walk looking for ants, haven’t thought of a Bible story for this day yet. Along with this I’m adding in daily numbers, counting and math and some pre-writing activities. I’m also going to go through her Awana book and we’ll memorize a Bible verse each week… since she started late, she didn’t do the first few weeks anyway. I’ve been so haphazard in my approach so far, that I dont know how much good it is doing her. I’m random and not repetitive, so I don’t think it’s giving her any time to actually absorb to her potential. I’d like to do reading, writing and numbers activities daily and add PE, science, crafts and music each at least once per week. I’m going to include Haley on some of the easier stuff and I’m going to start really working with her on colors. I’m going to have Rebekah make a collage of each letter during the week and put it in a scrapbook for her and she’ll have her own ABC book when we’re done. If all goes well, we’ll finish our letter per week right around Christmas time, take a few weeks off and sart over again this time Haley will make her book and we’ll start right around her 3rd birthday.
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sounds great

9:38 AM, Jun. 6, 2007 .. Posted by msack
This will be my first time homeschool a pre school child! I plan to do the same deal with my daughter. She just turned 4. I found a great resource book that I plan to use called Learn the Alphabet Arts and Crafts!

Hey that is a good idea!!!

9:52 AM, Jun. 6, 2007 .. Posted by Kelly1611KJV
I've never read your Blog before and I haven't went back to check in your profile or anything, but that is some great ideas you have, I like them I may start that myself when we start school back!! You know I'm not sure how old your children are, but it is NEVER to early to start with them. My now 2 year old, copied and tried to do and say everything my 6 year old was doing in school!!! Good luck and I'll keep checking back to see how you progress!!!

~Kelly * KJV~

Lori!!

7:36 PM, Jun. 11, 2007 .. Posted by crazybusy
Hi Lori!!
How cool that you're blogging here! And even better that you're about to begin homeschooling Rebekah! I did the same thing- started when Alek was 3 years old, just to be sure I could do it and that it was going to be a good fit. Haven't looked back since and Alek will be in 5th grade next year (plus 3rd and 1st graders and a preschooler- and toddler! LOL!.) I really need to catch up to you and hear about your new baby, etc.
Anyway, you have a great plan in place! Have you checked out Ambleside Online? http://amblesideonline.org/New.shtml It's similar to what Sonlight does (what we used for years) but it's free and you can find most of the books at your library if you don't want to purchase them. Sort of a literature approach to learning.

You will be surprised at how much she will learn just doing what you plan to do! It doesn't take long at all to teach young children.

You sound very organized already! :) Good for you!

Love, Alyssa

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