Week 1 went well. We have my husband's niece joining us. She JUST turned 5 over the weekend and therefore missed the cut off for public school. After 2 years of pre-school, her mom and dad decided that maybe it would be nice if she could join Little D in homeschool. Naturally, I said, "But of course!"
Princess D is a beautiful little girl who is the perfect match for Little D. They are two peas in a pod AND they have the potential to fight like crazy. Oh. Boy.
We are working with the following text books and computer programs:
Both kids are in Handwriting Without Tears. Little D is in the turquoise book and Princess has just started the first book in the series (orange).
Both are doing Funnix (computer program) in both Math and Reading
Both are doing Time4Learning (on-line computer program) also for Math and Reading.
We are using Grapevine Studies for Bible. We started at the beginning with an overview of Genesis.
We are doing The Story of the World for History.
Science will be, until January, some fun experiments as the weather permits. Most of my ideas will come from kits or the internet.
We will be having story time with a plan to read 4 books each day.
There will also be games and projects (mostly centered around The Story of History) as well as a few field trips.
We will have Princess 4 days a week with a break on Wednesday beginning next week. Last week and this coming week had vacation days so we will "make up"on Wednesday. Boy, last week I was really exhausted by the time Friday came along!
Some things for next week:
- Use PENCIL to write in my plans for the week. Only God should use pen in His planner!!
- Don't give the kids too much down time while I am getting supplies OR Have everything ready first!! Given a break, these two immediately begin jumping on the couch, running around the house, etc.
- Keep having them help with snack and lunch. (This helps a LOT with the above item.)
- Make time to wiggle around, dance around, run around.
-Kim
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