Almost done the second month of school. And I think that we are finally finding some sort of rhythm to it. I hope. Here is what our typical day looks like so far.
Bible: We have a memory verse that comes from Come Sit by Me, and sometimes they suggest stories to teach and read about. I will usually find the stories in Kid's Bibles, and then find a craft to go along with that.
Reading: We are working through The Ordinary Parent's Guide to Teaching Reading.
Printing: We are using Handwriting Without Tears. Abby has fun with using the wooden blocks to make letters, as well as a slate to draw them over sized first.
We usually have a 15 minute break here. The girls will have a snack and play or draw.
Math: We are using Right Start Math, which has lots of manipulatives to play with. It's going pretty slowly right now.
Come Sit By Me: For those who don't know, this curriculum covers a variety of subjects. It has different sections that you do, over a week or two. You read a selected book every day and then they have activities to do that relate to the book. Reading a book is always fun for the girls, and they enjoy the different things we get to do.
Depending how things are going we will take a quick break here.
Explode the Code: A mixture of phonics and printing. It is focusing on lower case right now, and that is a little more frustrating for poor Abby so sometimes this lesson ends in a fight.
And I switch between Bingo games and Sounds Abound, a book and computer game that have kids listening to sounds, like rhyming.
That is the basic outline of how we do school. Some days, like today, we are done almost everything by 11, but other days we got until almost 1.
2 comments:
I totally didn't read this before my last blog post, and i see how it starts the same, funny
@cjanels
I thought it was funny too, how we basically wrote the same post. Though you had more detail than mine.
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