Let's see...
Our schedule looks like this for 4 days a week:
10:00-11:00
- Family Time: Prayer, Hymn, and Memory Verse
- Breakfast
- Spanish & Composer
11:00-12:30
- Girls will work on Bible reading, Independent Reading, Copywork, Math, Poetry & Recitation, Narrations, Latin, Grammar, Writing, Oral Speeches, Typing, Book of Centuries & Mapping.
- I will pull them separately to read aloud to Jo-Jo and read Plutarch and Shakespeare with Ceesa.
- Li will have time to listen to a Story, Poetry & Songs, do Math & Copywork and lots of play like:
- ~Rhythmic: knit, sew, weave, dance, puzzles
- ~Creative: clay, paint, draw, build, sand, water, mold, chalk, wax sticks
- ~archetypes: wood/peg toys, dress up, puppets
12:30-1:00
- Go Outside
1:00-3:00
- Prep for Lunch, eat and Clean Up
- Folk Song
- Artist
- Rest
3:00-4:30
- Choose from Projects, Handicraft, Art, Experiments, or Nature Study
- Piano
- Exercises
4:30-bedtime
- Any or all of these: Outside, Stories, Strategy Games, Computer, Masterly Inactivity, Living Skills, Garden, Volunteer Work, and Family Chores
On the 5th day we plan our Joyful Moment for the week & we focus on:
- Family Time
- reading
- writing
- math
So here's what we're planning...
Big year long projects:
- Jo-Jo -Fables, Dragon Legends/Knights, Saint/Heroes, & Native American Tales/ Coyote;
- Ceesa-North American Stories & Geography, Ancient Civilizations: India, Persia, Egypt, China, Greek & Roman
Reading Lists: Literature, poetry, history, geography, & science
Composer Study
- Hildegard von Bingen
- Stephen Simon
- Sergei Rachmaninoff
- Fra Angelico
- Diego Velazquez
- Edgar Degas
- Billy Boy, Billy Boy
- Cherry Ripe
- Pick a Bale of Cotton
- Hamlet Prince of Denmark
- Midsummer Nights Dream
- Richard II
- Crassus
- Timoleon
- Aemilius Paulus
- Cross Stitch
- Knitting: purling & reg.
- Woodwork
Hymns
Just As I Am, Lift High the Cross, Jesus Paid it All, O Holy Night, I Am Thine, O Lord, Fairest Lord Jesus, Lord of all Hopefulness, Come Ye Thankful People come, and Glorious Things of Thee are Spoken
Grammar
Fix it! Grammar Robin Hood: Book 2
Art
Form Drawing, Modeling, Paper: Collage/mosaic,gift making, card making,Chalk pastels, Watercolor: Wet-on-Wet, Egg Dying, Sketching, and Oil pastel.
Nature Study
Butterflies, Bee, Conifer Tree, Weather, Chicken, Cow, Red bud Trees, Algae and Poppies/plant parts.
Math
Math Mammoth Grades 3 & 5
Spelling and Copywork
Spelling You See Levels C, D, and E
Latin
Latina Christiana
Piano
HomeSchoolPiano
Spanish
Salsa
Reading with parallel books for oral and written translation
Bible with parallel
Li and I will work on these things:
READ ALOUDS
Series:
Alfie Series by Shirley Hughes
Angus Stories
Little Pear, Little Pear and
Friends, Little Pear and The Rabbits
Billy and Blaze Series
Winnie-the-Pooh
Beatrix Potter
Brer Rabbit
Poetry & Nursery Rhymes
Poems and Prayers for the Very
Young
A Child’s Book of Poems
Collections:
The World’s Treasury of Children’s
Literature 3 Volume anthology
My Book House Book by Olive Beaupre
Miller (12 volumes)
Fairy Tales
Goldilocks and three Bears Little Red Hen Enormous Carrot
3 Little Pigs 3 Billy Goats Gruff Chicken Little
The Boy Who Called Wolf The Gingerbread Man Jack and the Beanstalk
Books:
Andy and the Lion One Morning in Maine Roxenboxen
Down, Down the Nature All the Places to Love Down in the Meadow
Yonder Ox Cart Man Hiawatha
Owl Babies Make Way for Ducklings The Story of Ping
Joseph’s Overcoat I love you the Purplist Rainbabies
With you all the way
READING
Level A
CAP
Starfall
STORYTELLING/WRITING
Listen to Stories told orally
Tell stories orally
Draw pictures of stories
Label the stories
Make a sentence to go along with
the story
COPYWORK
25 rainbow words
Name letters
Label items and work on writing in
a real context
Letters in name & Name puzzle
Letters in ABC order
Match upper and lower case
Form Art, Write letters &
numbers
Sound/letter matching
COMMUNICATION/RECITATION
Tongue twisters and rhyme
Narrate events, books, day, etc
Use who, what, where, when, why and
how
Use proper grammar and complete
descriptions
Listens to others, takes turns
talking and speaks about the topic or text being discussed
Respond appropriately & Solve
social conflicts through negotiation
Recognize consequences to actions
Focus even when frustrated & use
creative and flexible thinking to solve problems.
MATH
Critical Thinking Math Books:
Compare shapes, in different sizes and orientations
Count to 20
Identify and name numerals 1-9: dot
to dot, spinner games, dice
Identify without counting small
quantities of up to 3 items.
Demonstrate one-to-one
correspondence when counting objects up to 10: dominoes, beans
Understand that the last number
spoken tells the number of objects counted.
Make equal sets and sets of 1
more/1 less up to 10.
Solve simple addition and
subtraction problems up to 8 with manipulative and story problems
Group and regroup: Sort and
classify objects by one or more attributes (e.g., size, shape).
Recognize, duplicate, extend, create
patterns: color, shape, size, sound, and motion
Describe and compare objects using
length, size, capacity and weight
Order objects by biggest to
smallest
Measure length and volume using
non-standard or standard measurement tools: hand tracings
Collect data by categories to
answer simple questions
Position: in/on/under,up/down,inside/outside,above/below,beside/between,infront/behind,next
to
Create shapes during play by building,
drawing & Combine simple shapes to form larger shapes
Describe, compare, sort, classify,
and order.
Record observations using words,
pictures, charts, graphs, etc. (Graphing: small, medium, large)
Days of the week & Months of
the year
Build trains with rods: longer and
shorter and Build stairs
EXTRAS
Weather Mapping-represent
places Cutting pages
Basic Needs Life
cycles babies
to adult animals
Body parts Nutrition Exercise
Safety rules Emergency
routines
Wishing you homeschool blessings,
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