Sharing extra about P’s homeschool curriculum and the way we construction our days. For extra about why we determined to homeschool, take a look at this put up.
Hello mates! How are you? I hope that you just’re having a beautiful morning. I’ve a few shopper calls right now, homeschool enjoyable, and we’re going to take a day hike. What are you as much as?
For right now’s put up, I wished to talk extra about how we construction our days now that we’re in week 3 of homeschooling. It’s price mentioning right here that daily is totally different and these are simply packing containers we verify every day. The great thing about homeschool is that it’s versatile. It takes far much less time than conventional college, and you’ve got the liberty to pause, change issues, or transfer issues round, relying on what’s occurring.
It’s additionally price mentioning right here that I’m NOT an skilled and have minimal expertise on this space. I’m the newb of the newbies and am significantly figuring this out as we go. I’m so so grateful that there are homeschool specialists on the market and mates who’ve supplied with assist and recommendation; I’ll take all the guidelines I can get!
I’m additionally SO grateful to Brittany from A Wholesome Slice of Life who jumped in, hopped on the cellphone with me once I despatched her a brilliant lengthy voice message, talked me off the ledge, and helped me work out a gameplan. Try her weblog for homeschool information, recipes, journey, and life-style – she is superb.
Regardless that I’m nonetheless figuring this out, I wished to share this put up for my mates on the market who’re contemplating homeschool, however are tremendous intimidated, simply as I used to be. I believed I’d need to be a *instructor* to be good at this. You don’t must have a educating background. You simply want to seek out the suitable curriculum match (and know you possibly can change at any time), have a bit of persistence and suppleness, and proceed to point out love and persistence to your kiddo. <3
Our homeschool curriculum and the way we construction our days
For essentially the most half, right here’s how the day goes:
We get up and take Liv to highschool. We come dwelling, P has breakfast, I give her a bit of little bit of chill time the place she will play with toys, puzzles, construct issues, and so forth. (that is the place I’ll compensate for a couple of emails or put out work fires) and we begin *college* at 9. I sit on the desk along with her and eat my breakfast as we work collectively.
Nearly the entire curriculum we’re utilizing is plug and play, which suggests you open the ebook, learn the lesson, reply the questions, and transfer on. (Nearly every part beneath was really helpful by Brittany)
Math- 20-Half-hour
We’re utilizing Nicole the Math Girl and Saxon Math. We used to make use of Saxon math on the ladies’ college (they’d switched to Math in Focus) and I knew I wished to return to Saxon. Nicole the Math Girl teaches every lesson (a couple of 10 minute video with a corny mind break, which P loves) after which you might have observe questions and 1-2 worksheets to finish. You enter the children’ solutions into the pc and it tracks their grades. Every lesson takes us about 2 days to finish.
Grammar -20-Half-hour
For grammar, we’re utilizing Masterbooks, which is a faith-based curriculum. It consists of image examine, memorization, punctuation, spelling, vocabulary, statement, poems, psalms, letters, and sensible utility by means of artistic writing. We simply began however I really feel like she’s already realized lots from this textbook. She realized cursive this 12 months, so she’s engaged on answering the questions in cursive.
Writing – 20-Half-hour
For writing, we’re doing the Fables, Myths and Fairy Tales writing classes from IEW. It focuses on their Construction and Fashion technique. Proper now, she’s engaged on studying fables, making key outlines, and narration (having the ability to retell the story utilizing her notes).
Studying – 20 minutes
I simply need her to get pleasure from studying for now, so we’re studying one thing tremendous lighthearted and enjoyable collectively. This ebook has held the take a look at of time and she or he LOVES it. We’re each usually cracking up sooner or later whereas studying about Fudge and his antics.
Science + Social Research / Geography – about 2x per week every
I’m nonetheless making an attempt to determine a plan for this, however not so apprehensive about it since we’re near summer season. For now, she’s engaged on memorizing the states, capitals, and having the ability to find them on a map.
For science, we do one venture every week. The primary week, we dissected owl pellets, matched the bones on the bone sorting charts, and talked about what we discovered. Week 2, she constructed an egg drop that we might drop from the balcony to the yard whereas conserving the egg intact. We talked about velocity, gravity, momentum, motion and response. This week, she’s engaged on setting up a curler coaster.
Since we’re simply planning on homeschooling till fifth grade, I’m going to succeed in out to Liv’s college to see what the expectations are for rising fifth graders for science and social research/geography so I can be certain that we cowl the bases.
Mid-day:
We take Maisey for a stroll and have lunch collectively, compensate for a few chores, and work out a plan for the afternoon.
Afternoon:
After we made this resolution, I advised P that I cherished hanging out along with her however couldn’t be her cruise director all day. Within the afternoon earlier than we decide up Liv, I’ll have teaching calls, content material creation, modifying, podcast interviews, no matter I must do work-wise for a few hours. I’ve additionally shifted my work schedule so I’m working extra on the weekends or when the Pilot is dwelling from airline coaching. (We began all of this when he left, so I’ve been solo parenting and figuring all of this out alongside the way in which.) Saturday is a piece blitz day now, and most of Sunday. Apart from P’s basketball sport, I’ll write/work/edit just about all day till dinner.
Within the afternoon, she’ll play with toys, work on one thing she enjoys (music, crocheting, capturing hoops, and so forth), and if I’m caught up with work, I’ll take her to an indoor play place, to run errands, and typically I’ll give her some display time. Since she has basketball at night time and we’re chasing round with Liv to bounce courses, she normally doesn’t get display time within the evenings.
The times shuffle round. Generally I’ll have an appointment within the morning, or train a barre class, so we do college within the afternoon, and we’re additionally exploring a number of the Tucson homeschool actions. There are such a lot of nice ones right here: parkour, gymnastics, artwork, co-ops, horse classes, music — I’m excited to verify them out!
In order that’s the way it’s going for now! I’m certain it would change over time and my plan is to get her caught up with math (she’s ending the third grade ebook now and I”m hoping to get 4th grade and most of fifth performed subsequent 12 months whereas she’s in 4th grade). The opposite books are 4th grade books, so we’ll simply transfer as much as fifth when she completes them.
Homeschool lets you meet the child the place they’re. In the event that they’re progressing rapidly in a topic, you possibly can progress together with them, or take extra time on sure topics in the event that they want it.
In case you have any concepts for enjoyable science initiatives or any social research and geography sources, I’d admire it a lot! Additionally, if there are any questions I can reply in future posts, please lmk!
xoxo
Gina