Terabith
02-25-2009, 07:04 PM
I am pondering plans for my daughter who is five for next year. She'll turn six in November, so this would be her kindergarten year, but we're doing some first grade work.
Phonics: We're currently working our way through Fast Track from Sound Reading Solutions (Dancing Bears). When we finish that, I'm unsure whether to go on to Dancing Bears 3 or to do the Webster's Syllabry.
Spelling/ Encoding: She's finishing up Explode the Code 2 right now. I figure we'll do 3 over the summer. My goal is to possibly get through book 4 (unless that one is too hard? I'm looking for something to help with multisyllabic words. She's got a lot of code knowledge, but gets stuck on many words with more than one or two syllables), and then move onto something different. I'm torn between Read Write Type (teach encoding and keyboarding), All About Spelling, or ABeCeDarian. I'm just trying to do things from the other way to really cement the phonics rules.
Reading: Reading aloud. (CLP Nature Readers, Rod and Staff, RALP books). She's finishing up the grade one books right now; I figure second grade all around is pretty likely. I'm going to try to have her do some independent silent reading each day for a few minutes.
Math: We're doing Right Start B right now. We probably will not be done by September, so once we finish that, I plan to go into C. I've wondered if I should add in something like Saxon 1st to provide spiral review of concepts. But I don't want to do overkill.
Handwriting: general copywork and/ or Handwriting Helps for Kids grade 1 book. (Are doing their K book now)
Read Alouds: drawn from Five in a Row, Honey for a Child's Heart, Read Aloud Handbook, Latin Centered Curriculum, and Sonlight. Plus folk tales and poetry and books from the library that look fun. We're mostly doing picture books right now, but I figure we'll start doing a few chapter books as well next year.
Science/ Social Studies: informal units based on books from library on different topics. Will try to do science experiments once a week or so, just for fun. Will keep using Montessori maps to practice locations of countries and land form models to learn geographic terminology. We're doing Classical Conversations, and we'll go over the stuff at home, but I'm NOT aiming for mastery of all that material. I'm just hoping for exposure and for her to have her "school at a school place" craving satisfied.
Religion: Bible stories, church activities, Leading Little Ones to God
Art: messing around with art materials. Maybe having a "How to Draw" or a Draw Write Now book available for her to use when she wants to know how to draw something. Once or twice a week do an art project from one of the Mary Ann Kohl books. Possibly some artist studies.
Music and PE outsourced. Lots of free play at home and outside play.
I'm aiming for about one hour a day, max of one and a half, of instruction. Read alouds possibly at another time.
Phonics: We're currently working our way through Fast Track from Sound Reading Solutions (Dancing Bears). When we finish that, I'm unsure whether to go on to Dancing Bears 3 or to do the Webster's Syllabry.
Spelling/ Encoding: She's finishing up Explode the Code 2 right now. I figure we'll do 3 over the summer. My goal is to possibly get through book 4 (unless that one is too hard? I'm looking for something to help with multisyllabic words. She's got a lot of code knowledge, but gets stuck on many words with more than one or two syllables), and then move onto something different. I'm torn between Read Write Type (teach encoding and keyboarding), All About Spelling, or ABeCeDarian. I'm just trying to do things from the other way to really cement the phonics rules.
Reading: Reading aloud. (CLP Nature Readers, Rod and Staff, RALP books). She's finishing up the grade one books right now; I figure second grade all around is pretty likely. I'm going to try to have her do some independent silent reading each day for a few minutes.
Math: We're doing Right Start B right now. We probably will not be done by September, so once we finish that, I plan to go into C. I've wondered if I should add in something like Saxon 1st to provide spiral review of concepts. But I don't want to do overkill.
Handwriting: general copywork and/ or Handwriting Helps for Kids grade 1 book. (Are doing their K book now)
Read Alouds: drawn from Five in a Row, Honey for a Child's Heart, Read Aloud Handbook, Latin Centered Curriculum, and Sonlight. Plus folk tales and poetry and books from the library that look fun. We're mostly doing picture books right now, but I figure we'll start doing a few chapter books as well next year.
Science/ Social Studies: informal units based on books from library on different topics. Will try to do science experiments once a week or so, just for fun. Will keep using Montessori maps to practice locations of countries and land form models to learn geographic terminology. We're doing Classical Conversations, and we'll go over the stuff at home, but I'm NOT aiming for mastery of all that material. I'm just hoping for exposure and for her to have her "school at a school place" craving satisfied.
Religion: Bible stories, church activities, Leading Little Ones to God
Art: messing around with art materials. Maybe having a "How to Draw" or a Draw Write Now book available for her to use when she wants to know how to draw something. Once or twice a week do an art project from one of the Mary Ann Kohl books. Possibly some artist studies.
Music and PE outsourced. Lots of free play at home and outside play.
I'm aiming for about one hour a day, max of one and a half, of instruction. Read alouds possibly at another time.