Latin-Centered Curr. users, can you post your schedules for K5, 1st, and 2nd grades?

[gandpsmommy]

I'm trying to plan for dd6, who will be doing second grade next year, and ds 4 who will be doing K5 next year. Can you also post what kinds of selections you are reading for Family Reading and Independent Reading? Thanks.

[rivendellmom]

Well, You could look at these sites for independent and family reading in each level:
http://sonlight.com
http://www.motherofdivinegrace.org/curriculum/primary.cfm
http://www.materamabilis.org/

[Plaid Dad]

If you check out the first link in my signature, you can see our weekly reports for our first grader. She is working above grade level in some subjects, but it should give you a general idea of how our weekly and daily schedules work. We spend no more than 1.5 hrs a day on formal lessons; most days it's about an hour.

[Mama Lynx]

We are not doing any independent reading, because, ha ha, mine don't read yet.

Here is what I am reading to them: Atticus the Storyteller's 100 Greek Myths, Kings and Things (British History), SOTW 2, and all the fairy tale picture books I can find.

Clarification: I'm only talking about my 5 and 7 year old here (I see I put in my .sig that my 5 year old is already 6, lol). Yes, the 11 and 10 year olds read and do their own independent reading.

[St. Theophan Academy]

my first grader: very light!

prayers, pledge, recitation - 10 minutes

Bible - I read Golden Children's Bible and lives of saints aloud to both - 10 min

Phonics - Review phonograms from SWR, then I show her 2-3 pages in ETC and in her copybook (memoria press) and she does these independently while I show 3rd grader his Latin and Math

then she reads aloud to me from McGuffey reader, Bob book or other easy reading level book. We are beginning to add in some SWR dictation of spelling words very slowly.

Math - We spend about 15 minutes on Math, right now we are going over adding and subtracting using Ray's arithmetic and some of the games from Serendipity's gnomes and gnumbers lesson plans

Then she usually takes a break to play with 3yo while I work with 3rd grader

she joins us to listen to me read from either Child's Book of Myths, Aesop's fables or 50 Famous Stories (5-10 min)

We spend 15-20 minutes reading Apologia astronomy once or twice per week, the other days we read from The Discovery of New Worlds and a history read aloud (King Arthur right now) These are the 3rd graders "subjects" but she is listening in.

Once a week we read from Paddle to the sea and do the map activities, and this week I have added in reading from Seven Little Sisters by Jane Andrews - we are going to spend one or two weeks per ch learning about the seven continents. This only takes about 15-20 minutes.

Sometime during the week I read a Hans Christian Anderson Fairy tale to her, and we also read Just So Stories together (one every couple of weeks). We started reading the Burgess Animal book this year, but I slacked off on that wanting to create some activity to go with it, I need to just forget that and go back to just reading it for fun.

Finally, once a week we spend 10 minutes on picture study, we listen to our composer during lunch preparation, and we read our poems in the afternoon during tea time.

As for family readings, right now we are reading Swiss Family Robinson, and will start Robin Hood this week. I am also planning to do the Chronicles of Narnia again this year (I start reading the cycle each time a new child is 3-4 years old in our house) Last year we read the first 2 Little House on the Prairie books.

All told, she only spends about an hour and a half in formal schooling each day, but we do read a lot, and they don't really consider that "school" :)

Anne Marie

[Jami]

I have a 1st grader and a Ker who mostly works on a 1st grade level. We spend about an hour to an hour and a half on formal school work each day, or at least 4 days a week. I also have a 3.5 year old tagging along.

We do about 20 minutes of memory/group work first thing in the morning. I read a Bible chapter/passage to them and we review catechism questions. I combine LCC with Ambleside so we are learning a hymn during this time also. We work on poems we're memorizing and a bible verse or passage.

Then we move on to math and copywork. And some Explode the Code to improve on spelling. For math we use Horizons and for copywork we use the Memoria Press Copybooks, my own selections from literature we read, and I have them write a letter to a family member every other week or so.

Some days I have us work a bit with First Language Lessons before we start our Latin work. We've just started Prima Latina, but it's the favored subject here! If we skip it I hear about it. :)

Usually they're ready for some lunch by this time. I try and read from one of our literature books or poetry over lunch. My read-alouds are drawn from the AmblesideOnline year 1 list right now.

The afternoons are a rotation of reading from history books (Our Island Story, Britannia, Mighty Men, 50 Famous Stories), fairy tales and literature, the Holling C. Holling books, or science/nature books from the library. And my husband usually has an evening read-aloud going, right now it's The NeverEnding Story.

Oh and I usually have them take turns reading aloud to me. I know they're strong independent readers, but I want them to practice reading well aloud. I've been using really well-written picture books (McCloskey, Beatrix Potter, etc) for this. Eventually we'll do books like Charlotte's Web together during this time.

I think that's all. :) We have LOTS of free time for play in our days. They also are learning violin and have to practice daily. Art and music sort of happen through good books and CDs scattered around. But I loosely follow the Ambleside rotation there.

Jami

[Snickerdoodle]

For my first grader we are doing (our year goes from July to June):

Daily:

Singapore OR Miquon Math
Prima Latina moving soon to Lively Latin
Reading practice
Tons of read alouds

Weekly:

SOTW


For next year I have planned:

Daily:

Singapore and Miquon Math
Lively Latin
Spelling
Handwriting moving towards cursive
Tons of read-alouds

Weekly:

very informal science
SOTW

[Mama Lynx]

I didn't post our schedule. Right now I have a K and a 1st. And we do:

Math - Right Start B (mainly the 1st grader, the K is just starting and will quickly catch up to where his brother is)

Phonics - Phonics Pathways

copywork

Those are daily. Then they listen to me read SOTW once a week or so, and we read the other books I listed plus science picture books, books about pirates and Egypt, etc. at bedtime. The 1st grader also takes piano lessons.