Curriculum Round up
Posted by admin on 18 Jul 2013 at 11:00 am | Tagged as: Uncategorized
This year I have a 2nd grader (Miss Bug) and a kindergartener (The Chicken Whisperer). Now, the Chicken Whisperer will actually be going to a charter school for kindergarten this year, and the plan at this point will be to reevaluate at the end of the school year, and (probably) homeschool him thereafter. Miss Bug is enrolled in an online charter and gets access to technology courses through them, but all of her curriculum is decided and administered by me.
So here are our curriculum choices for the 2013-2014 school year.
Everyone
Morning Meeting
History Odyssey Middle Ages
Harmony Fine Arts Middle Ages
REAL Science Odyssey
Kindergarten
Karate
Explode the Code 1
Lots of reading
1st Grade
Robotics
Gymnastics
Piano lessons
Portuguese – Rosetta Stone Online
Language Arts –
- Language Lessons for Elementary Child V1
- 1 read aloud per week
- 1 personal read per week w/ report
- 1 poem per week/copywork or write own poem
- Spelling Power
- Handwriting Without Tears
- Keyboarding
Singapore Math 2A & 2B
Now I want to say that Miss Bug may look like she has a huge course load, especially for a 2nd grader, but all of her Language Arts should take about half an hour per day, and math should only take about 20-30 minutes as well. Each ‘Language Lesson’ is only about 5 minutes, Spelling Power is 10, and HWT will only be done on days when she has no other copywork. She reads everything in sight already (including the national news over my shoulder . . . sigh), so having her read a book per week will be cake to her, and she can do her report orally or written, as she chooses. I chose to have her do a report because I noticed this year a slight tendency to rush through her reading and not understand everything, so I am trying to gently encourage better reading comprehension. The Keyboarding will be 5 minutes per day before she can play on the computer after school.
So you can better see how I plan to organize our days, here is our tentative weekly schedule:
|
Monday |
Tuesday |
Wednesday |
Thursday |
Friday |
| Language Arts
Math Portuguese History |
Language Arts
Math Portuguese Fine Arts |
Language Arts
Math Science Coop Piano Lessons |
Language Arts
Math Portuguese History |
Language Arts
Math Portuguese Fine Arts
|
I don’t yet have Robotics, PE, or Portuguese placed because I am not familiar with the materials (they haven’t been sent to me yet) and, in the case of PE classes, I haven’t scheduled them yet.
A sample daily outline will look something like this:
Daily Routine Outline
- Breakfast
- Morning Chores
- Opening Exercises
- Family Learning (History, etc.)
- Lunch
- Chicken Whisperer to School
- Miss Bug Learning (Math, LA, etc)
- Pick up Chicken Whisperer
- Afternoon Chores
- Free time
- Dinner
- Evening chores
- Bed
So those are my tentative ideas for our 2013-2014 school year.
What online charter do you use? My daughter is doing Portuguese with Rosetta Stone. She really enjoys it. I especially like the part when they make you repeat after them and you can click to hear yourself talk. I was hoping Rosetta Stone had a European Portuguese but all they have right now is the Brazillian.
It’s so nice to get our plans written out and look forward to a new school year. Looks like you have a good one in store this year. I’m enjoying getting our plans in order and looking forward to starting up in a few weeks.