We had a great holiday break, but we can't wait to get back to our routine. For the next three days I'm going to plan the lessons for the next few months, at least till Easter break. I already have the books we are going to be reading, I just need to plan the activities that go with each book. We use Five in a Row which is mini unit studies based on children's illustrated books. Four days a week we read the same book then each day we focus on different things. On Mondays we get to learn about geography or history, Tuesdays we do language arts, Thursdays' math and Friday we do science. Wednesdays' supposed to be art day, but we take Wednesdays off. We usually get to do art stuff everyday really, A5 loves to draw and color and she gets to do that pretty much everyday!
Most of the books we're doing for the next 8 weeks are cold weather related. I'm waiting for FIAR's Winter Nature Study to become available, that'll give me a few ideas on things we can do outside for nature study.
We are going to continue with Math u See and Handwriting without tears. We'll probably do a review week of all the words she's learned using Reading made easy then we'll start the next lesson.
Hope you had a great New Years Day!!!
Tuesday, January 1, 2008
Lesson Planning
