Jun. 11, 2007
Week One
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Our first week was relatively successful. I think I planned way too much for my almost four year old!
In the end, we did quite a bit of workbook work (which she loves), a few crafts, she got to help me cook breakfast on Saturday and she found alot of words that have the letter A in them.
The highlight of last week though was Cowboy day. The rodeo was in town over the weekend and Thursday was family day, so I had the girls dressed up in their cowboy best, we made cowboy vests for them out of paper bags, brought their rocking horse downstairs and read a few cowboy books. The rodeo was definitely the highlight of the day, even though we missed most of it.
This is B week and we're off to a slow start. I don't really have my plan for the entire week worked out yet, but I do think I'm going to cut to 3 days per week of formal school time. This will give us a full day for errands and a day just for fun. We're also going to see a Peter Pan play at the library on Wednesday, so that should be lots of fun. |
Jun. 4, 2007
And Away We go!
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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. |