Growing WarriorsJust your typical family…

Ok here goes…on paper (SCREEN??) – my plan for first grade! (Allison, not me)

- Phonics/Spelling/Reading – Spell to Write and Read – 4 days a week

- Math – Right Start – gonna finish up level B maybe start on level C (she did about half of level B in kindergarten) – 3-4 days a week with a day of games.

- Handwriting – copywork from AO selections, 3-5 days a week (gonna start a copybook) – I may start her on cursive..I’ve been reading a lot about doing cursive before teaching print, and some of it really makes sense. My only consideration is that Allison already prints, using HWT’s methods, so I don’t want to confuse her. I do think that I will start the other kids out with cursive, when their time comes.

- Foreign Language – Spanish – La Classe Divertida (did I spell that right??), Lyrical Language, and may add in Rosetta Stone. Not sure how I will work it all….Lyrical Language we just do in the car, I would like to do La Classe 3 times a week, If we do Rosetta Stone, I may make it supplementary, if the kids want to do it, they can.

- Science – Classical Home Education’s REAL Science – 2 days a week (I’m thinking) with one day a week dedicated to pure child-led nature study (even though the curriculum is basically nature study)

- Literature – Ambleside Online!

- History – Ambleside Online!

- Geography – Ambleside Online!

- Art Study – Ambleside Online – 1 day a week, although I may sorta start doing Drawing with Children 1 day a week as well.

- Composer Study – Ambleside Online – 1 day a week

- Music – piano lessons 1x a week, practice 4x a week, and Music Ace Software 2x a week.

That’s it! I think.

I do have a plan for Meredith as well. Sorta. (she will be four in Sept) She will sit in on Spanish study (she has already learned a lot from Lyrical Language, and seems to pick it up MUCH quicker than any of us…probably because she is so young), I plan to start teaching her phonograms using the Spell to Write and Read program…just informally, with games, etc. and only if she wants to. She will sit in on the art stuff and the composer stuff, she will continue taking piano, and practicing through the week. I will try to figure out some games to help with her speech problems, and I may introduce Right Start level A when she is 4.5 years old (so that would be in March) but only if she wants to and only if I think she can handle it. I do NOT want to push She will also probably participate in the science (the curriculum is mostly experiments) and nature study (she has her own nature journal), but that will be up to her. And I HOPE to fit in more picture book reading aloud time. Seems like now that Allison has moved up to chapter books, I am more drawn to read those, and Meredith just isn’t ready for that type of sustained attention, so she misses out (Lydia too)…so I am going to try to schedule in a reading aloud time for the younger kids using quality picture books, etc.

I hope to keep Friday free for the most part. In my mind, on Friday we do co-op stuff, I think that the homeschool swim class meets on Friday afternoon, and we make Friday a game day for math and phonics, and Friday would be our nature day as well…..ok, that doesn’t sound like Friday is free at all! I may have to rethink that one, lol.

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