Wednesday, July 1, 2009

Our Upcoming School Year part II

I had planed to wait one more year to start kindergarten with X4, who is going to be X5 by the time we start school. However, my DH really felt that since we are homeschooling it would make sense to just go ahead and do K with him but to go at his own pace.

I know it will look as if I have a lot of stuff planed for him, but this is just to see what works and what doesn't. His school will only be about 1 to 1.5 hrs, while A7 will be closer to 3.5 hrs.
Here's the planned lineup for our upcoming year(X4):

Five in a Row
We'll continue to do story time. However, since A7 is moving into more difficult books, X4 and I will be rowing BeforeFIAR and only a few FIAR tittles.

Unit Studies
We have a few unit studies to break the year up.
Lapbook activities
I found these lapbooks on the 1+1+1=1 website. They are perfect for X4.
Math
  • Math U See Primer(2/week)
  • lots of math games
Language Arts
We'll be doing Reading Made Easy(2/week), this curriculum takes about 2 years to complete, although it may take longer with X4.

Handwriting
We'll be using Handwriting without Tears' Get Set for School, once we are done with that one we'll start Letters and Numbers for Me.

I have a variety of games and activities that we'll be doing during the week as well.
  • cut & paste
  • coloring
  • tracing
  • painting
  • dot to dot
  • matching games
  • sequencing
  • lacing
  • puzzles
  • pentominos
  • geoboards
  • & many more!