Monday:
This morning, we're all tired. But on with homeschooling!
We started off the day with Draw to Learn, then immediately wrote his first book report for the year. "The Voyage of the Dawn Treader". (He'll have to re-write because I told him two pages, and he wrote only one.) We'll hopefully get that done at the end of the day.
Next, he read aloud and worked out sample problems from Lessons 17-20 of Saxon Math.
Short break, snack followed.
After doing the next lesson in Intermediate Language Lessons, he worked on memorizing those prepositions for Easy Grammer. Next was lunch and reading time.
After snack today, we finished the next SOTW lesson, and U.S. History lesson.
He then spent some time reading out of one of the big Pirate books, and I plan on doing a big Pirate project next week.
At the end of the school day, he did the next two science lessons. (Just redoing his book report from this morning.)
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Tuesday:
Started off by completing the book report on "Voyage of the Dawn Treader". He's already read the next Pirate book, so we'll be starting his third book for the year today or tomorrow. After the report, we took a short break and hit math. Lessons 21-23 were completed orally. We will begin writing problems down soon, to polish up neatness in math. After math we had a quick snack, then back to work!
We did the next lesson in SOTW, U.S. History. Then the next two science lessons. During reading time, he read several pirate books for our Pirate unit study.
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Wednesday:
This morning we finished the activity pages for SOTW. Next he did the next two lessons from Saxon, this week we've started writing down the problems. It's all still review, but he did have to re-write both. He's learning the value of neatness when doing mathematics!
After that he spent time memorizing the list of prepositions, then doing the next grammar assignment. Next we read the following two chapters in SOTW, and answered all the questions for both chapters. Before reading time, he re-wrote the math assignments.
Today, he's starting the next Narnia book.
This afternoon is a playdate with one of his friends he hasn't seen in a while, so we're both looking forward to that!
Thursday:
Another busy day. But we've gotten SO much done.
He is through lesson 27 in Math. He's got the "neatness" thing down now, and I hope to do plenty to grow his love for math this year.
The list of prepositions is now memorized!! He is going through the Grammar curriculum wonderfully, and without a problem.
He has practiced for his music lesson twice already, and his lesson is today.
The book we're reading now is, "The Horse and His Boy". He's almost halfway through it.
When we leave for music lesson, he'll be completing the next two sections in his Science workbook, and reading the next SOTW lesson. He'll also be taking two Pirate workbooks I put together. Busy, busy week! But it's still going well. Not perfect, but going well!!
*Friday this week is vacation, out of town for the weekend.
*For science, we'll be starting a very long unit study on the Human Body. We'll be using The Magic Schoolbus "Human Body" game, a very cool book about the body that contains information on the circulatory system, skeletal system, and MUCH more...also has a diagram for every system. I'll also use a nice, big, puzzle book we have on the human body. It's pretty detailed, with an overload of information. I love adding plenty of visuals, and using opportunities like this to do unit studies, he usually retains more that way. I plan to spend several weeks on this.
I won't have nearly as much time as I'd hoped to blog, but I'm shooting for at least weekly posts, citing the assignments we're on. I have a tendency to plan TOO much, and I need to remember the reality of the days! I'm only one person. : ) Also, in a bit of a rush, so haven't spell-checked....please forgive typos!
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More personal goals for our homeschool:
*Enjoy the days, relax a bit more
*I want this year to focus on empowering this sweet boy
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