A new school year is almost upon us. So while the kids are enjoying some much needed free time to do as they please, I am off gathering supplies for the upcoming school year. Below you'll find our initial plans for the year, and as always I will update as we go and share any changes that we make.
Our first year of school was very successful with S. While her age-mates would be starting 1st grade this fall, S will be working on a split grade this year. We learned of some challenges in the latter half of the school year that we need to work on - which would keep her at 1st grade level, but in some area's she's ready to blossom into 2nd grade. the beauty of homeschooling is we can just run with it!
Again I will continue to update as we progress through 1st/2nd Grade! :)
LANGUAGE ARTS
- Various reading level books - read alouds, chapter books, poetry - (Junior Great Reads??)
- Spectrum Reading (gr 2)
- All About Spelling (1)
- HWT (1&2) writing practice - some cards to family and various workbooks (working on this)
- Growing with Grammar 1
- Prompt Plan Write (mostly typed - as spelling skills increase!)
MATH
- Singapore Math US Edition (1B + 2A & 2B)
- Spectrum Math 2 for review and practice
HISTORY/GEOGRAPHY
- World History/Geography - History Odyssey
- USA - Geography - RoadTrip USA along with Highlights Which Way USA?
SCIENCE/HEALTH
- Unit studies and lapbook for Science
LANGUAGES
- Rosetta Stone Spanish - self paced
- Sign Language at home
ARTS/CRAFTS/MUSIC
- Artistic Pursuits
- Great Artists
- Story of the Orchestra
- Great Composers
EXTRACURRICULAR
- Daisies
- others as interests permit!
- Piano, Swimming and Soccer at a later date
I will continue to update as we progress through this first year! :)
Sunday, July 1, 2012
Grade 6 (2012/2013) - Current Plan
We're always fine tuning and making adjustments here and there.
LANGUAGE ARTS
- Growing with Grammar 6
- Various Reading materials (poetry, classic literature, intro to Shakespeare)
- Creative Writing assignments from various topics
- Penmanship - finishing HWT along with various letters and thank-yous to family
MATH
- Singapore Math (6A & 6B)
- Various online computer games
- Various Worksheets for practice
HISTORY/GEOGRAPHY
- K12 History (Grade 6)
- Civics and Politics (via Unit Studies)
SCIENCE
- K12 Science (Grade 6)
- various topics
LANGUAGES
- Spanish Rosetta Stone
Re-visiting ASL
COMPUTER & TECHNOLOGY STUDIES
- Research & Investigate new Apps for iDevices - based on usefulness and practicality and cost
- Develop and maintain a webpage (still in the process of defining the details!)
ARTS/CRAFTS/MUSIC
- Extra Curricular Art Projects
- Artisitic Pursuits
- possibly study Great Artists
- Story of the Orchestra
- possibly Great Composers
- Music Projects
- extracurricular classes as appropriate
EXTRACURRICULAR
- Swimming
- Piano
- Cadette Girl Scouts (Silver Project)
- Soccer
- outside classes as interests deem necessary
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If anyone out there reading has an absolute favourite program that they want to share, I'd love to check it out! :)
I will continue to update as we progress through this year! :)
LANGUAGE ARTS
- Growing with Grammar 6
- Various Reading materials (poetry, classic literature, intro to Shakespeare)
- Creative Writing assignments from various topics
- Penmanship - finishing HWT along with various letters and thank-yous to family
MATH
- Singapore Math (6A & 6B)
- Various online computer games
- Various Worksheets for practice
HISTORY/GEOGRAPHY
- K12 History (Grade 6)
- Civics and Politics (via Unit Studies)
SCIENCE
- K12 Science (Grade 6)
- various topics
LANGUAGES
- Spanish Rosetta Stone
Re-visiting ASL
COMPUTER & TECHNOLOGY STUDIES
- Research & Investigate new Apps for iDevices - based on usefulness and practicality and cost
- Develop and maintain a webpage (still in the process of defining the details!)
ARTS/CRAFTS/MUSIC
- Extra Curricular Art Projects
- Artisitic Pursuits
- possibly study Great Artists
- Story of the Orchestra
- possibly Great Composers
- Music Projects
- extracurricular classes as appropriate
EXTRACURRICULAR
- Swimming
- Piano
- Cadette Girl Scouts (Silver Project)
- Soccer
- outside classes as interests deem necessary
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If anyone out there reading has an absolute favourite program that they want to share, I'd love to check it out! :)
I will continue to update as we progress through this year! :)
Homeschooling Year 6 + Technology
Summer is in full swing here, complete with heat indexes above 100F (40C.) So we are basking in the comfort of our air conditioned home, each engaged in our own activities. The youngest is practicing her music skills on the keyboard, the middlest is practicing her gaming skills and the oldest creating her writing masterpiece.
All jesting aside, my mind is fast forwarding to the fall and planning what we need to be working on and with for the upcoming school year. Our 7th year of homeschooling is fast approaching and this year we will add preschool (3), split 1/2, and 6th grade to our skills list. I didn't blog much last year, due to distractions and learning how to teach all three at once, plus Facebook was a major distraction and life, the blog fell by the wayside, apologies! I'm hoping to better plan my year this year, and actually have time to blog more of our adventures.
The usual line up of suspect subjects will be on the roster for the fall, including Language Arts (reading, phonics, spelling, grammar, writing -pen and creative), Math, Science, history, geography, Spanish, art, Music etc. But this year, we are hoping to add a little technology to our repertoire.
Earlier this summer my oldest and I managed to read the Hunger Games series by Suzanne Collins on our iPads, iPhone and iPods. This got me thinking about how we use our iDevices and how we could make better use of them. This morning I found a blog about a middle school teacher who encouraged her students to use iPads for the year. They seem to have used them in every subject and for a variety of purposes from making stop motion videos for various projects to math on whiteboard type apps while recording lessons as the teacher was explaining it!
While I think the technology is still in its infancy, it is hitting potty training pretty quickly and with great success. People are seeing the potential, both as a portable knowledge share that the internet provides, but also as a tool for teaching with specialty apps designed to suit a purpose, giving students and businesses more creative freedom than they have ever had before!
My hope is to investigate apps that will cover our current grades, and future grades. I'd love to get involved in beta programs for review of apps that might be useful to homeschoolers. But most of all we're looking to use these cool tools for more than videos, Internet, books and personal reminder systems.
I plan to make a better effort this year in keeping our homeschool blog a little more up to date, and hope to do a few features on the materials we are using and maybe a little R&D (research and discussion! LOL!) on the apps we find to enhance our studies.
So to my readers out there in blog-land, if you know of apps, programs or other blogs that will help us focus on our goals, I'm all ears and would love to check out your suggestions!
(the next few updates will include our grade level plans for the coming year.)
All jesting aside, my mind is fast forwarding to the fall and planning what we need to be working on and with for the upcoming school year. Our 7th year of homeschooling is fast approaching and this year we will add preschool (3), split 1/2, and 6th grade to our skills list. I didn't blog much last year, due to distractions and learning how to teach all three at once, plus Facebook was a major distraction and life, the blog fell by the wayside, apologies! I'm hoping to better plan my year this year, and actually have time to blog more of our adventures.
The usual line up of suspect subjects will be on the roster for the fall, including Language Arts (reading, phonics, spelling, grammar, writing -pen and creative), Math, Science, history, geography, Spanish, art, Music etc. But this year, we are hoping to add a little technology to our repertoire.
Earlier this summer my oldest and I managed to read the Hunger Games series by Suzanne Collins on our iPads, iPhone and iPods. This got me thinking about how we use our iDevices and how we could make better use of them. This morning I found a blog about a middle school teacher who encouraged her students to use iPads for the year. They seem to have used them in every subject and for a variety of purposes from making stop motion videos for various projects to math on whiteboard type apps while recording lessons as the teacher was explaining it! While I think the technology is still in its infancy, it is hitting potty training pretty quickly and with great success. People are seeing the potential, both as a portable knowledge share that the internet provides, but also as a tool for teaching with specialty apps designed to suit a purpose, giving students and businesses more creative freedom than they have ever had before!
My hope is to investigate apps that will cover our current grades, and future grades. I'd love to get involved in beta programs for review of apps that might be useful to homeschoolers. But most of all we're looking to use these cool tools for more than videos, Internet, books and personal reminder systems. I plan to make a better effort this year in keeping our homeschool blog a little more up to date, and hope to do a few features on the materials we are using and maybe a little R&D (research and discussion! LOL!) on the apps we find to enhance our studies.
So to my readers out there in blog-land, if you know of apps, programs or other blogs that will help us focus on our goals, I'm all ears and would love to check out your suggestions!
(the next few updates will include our grade level plans for the coming year.)
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