Back to school celebration

IHIP done

Thank goodness I was able to finish up Jennas IHIP for the school system. Now let's just hope they accept it with no problems. Last year for K was alot easier. This year all subjects are to be reported on. I give the school system just what the laws require and nothing more.

Now the good times begin of organizing and planning the school year. Takes me a month to do that. So I better get my rear in gear lol. September will be here before i know it.

Summer 2012

We took the month of July off and are doing a light summer session. Then in September 1st grade will begin. I really like the fact of schooling year round, it works for us.
This is what our scheduling of our school year. We start the end of July with reviewing the basics, and then in September we start the new grade level. School is a full day, five days a week. If she gets alot done by the 4th day then sometimes we have a short day on the 5th day. We have a break on November 15th for Jenna's birthday, Thanksgiving week we take 2 days off, December is at least a two or three week break, my birthday in February deserves a day off, lol, and then we take most of July off. Of course there will be days that come up that we may have to take off because life is unpredictable.
This is what we have going on for first grade.

Math-
Horizion grade 2 book 1 and 2 some timed addition and subtraction math sheets and flash cards

Spelling-
 Spelling workout C
        

Grammar -
 continue with First Language Lessons 2

Writing -
continue with Writing With Ease 2 and penpals
              

Reading -
8 to 10 chapter books that we will read aloud, 8 to 10 chapter books for her independant reading, Science/history books that we will read aloud and  Any books of her choice for free reading at night.

                

Science -
Human body (Real Science Odyssey Life) and Animals (Kingfisher First Encylopedia of animals) and lots of reading supplements on each topic. And a nature study using The nature connection and various nature books,
             
               

History -
Story of the world 1 and activity book 1. Lots of supplement reading as well.
             
Geography -
continue using the weekly readers Mapskills for today and Using maps in your neighborhood grade 2. And using geography from The Core teaching your child the
foundations of classical education
                   
                     

Health -       
Personal hygiene, good eating habits, diseases, and general saftey rules 

Physical Ed -
Wii sports, Wii fit, bike riding, walking, cardio workouts and sports.

Art -
 How to teach children art and online art sites
        

Music -
Classics for kids

Tea time - which will be filled with poetry reading and writing.

I am reading bravewriter and I am so inspired by it, Also The Well Trained Mind has been the inspiration to give my daughter a classical education.
It is going to be a busy and full year. Looking forward to the growth I will see this school year in my daughter's academics and everyday life.  

                         

First school week of 2012

Jenna started back to school on Tuesday. I was a little worried after being off from school for over a week and sleeping in, how she was going to behave when break was over. But she did wonderful, actually I think a break was just what she needed. She got right down to business and got right back in the grove of things.

Math - Horizon first grade book 2, she did 4 lessons this week. And we reviewed addition flash cards daily and did a quick review on her coins on Tuesday.

Spelling - She didn't do a lesson in spelling workout book b this week, instead we did our own words, which were the days of the week. She copied words on Tuesday, reviewed on Wednesday, alphabetized them on thursday and reviewed and tested today. As a bonus we added the abbreviation of each day of the week.

Grammer - First language lessons level 1, she did 4 lessons this week and reviewed all her poems she has learned so far. She did very well reciting each poem. She learned about abbreviations, she did very well, reviewed pronouns and nouns.

Writing- She didn't do Writing with Ease 1 this week instead I had her do copy work from her narrations that she did after doing her science reading. She also did some copying of spelling words and penpal writing.

Reading- Well she got some more Ramona books and Diary of the Whimpy Kid for Christmas, so she has been reading those for school independant reading time. Yes she has two chapter books going on at one time, that's my girl she likes a variety. As far as reading aloud time we have read books on dinosaurs and fossils this week.

Science- We are studying dinosaurs, she read about them, narrarated to me what she learned, then I wrote it down for her to copy. She also drew pictures to go with her narrations. She learned about fossils and made her own fossils.

Art-  Drawing was a daily thing her for Science and her penpal got a beautiful drawing. Also she made me a girl snowman to go with my boy snowman that she made me last year. It is on our winter board.

Gym - We both did some Wii fit and Just Dance Kids.

She also worked on her dictionary skills looking up words from her reading that she didn't know the meaning of. It was a good week.

It's been a long time since I blogged

I can't believe it's been over a month since I last blogged. Schooling has been going great here. Jenna has joined daisy's which she loves. She has lost two teeth so far. And celebrated her 6th birthday this past Tuesday.

Math - Horizon math grade 1 book 1 - she has around 20 lessons to go. We do this 4 times a week. She also goes over math addition facts and money 4 times a week as well. Soon we will start working on her subtraction facts. Timed math drill is done on Fridays.

Spelling - Spelling Workout B - 14 lessons to go on this. We work on spelling 4 to 5 times a week. We do a pretest, the lessons in book, I have her put the words in alphabetical order, write sentences for some of the words and then we test at end of week.

Grammer - First Language Lessons 1 - around 25 lessons left in this. We have slowed down somewhat to make it last til at least the end of the year.

Writing - Writing with ease 1 - I believe we have 12 lessons left in this. So we are slowing this down as well to make it last til at least the end of the year. I am going to begin in January having her do narrations and some copy work from science as well.

Reading -  She likes to read with me and independently as well. I would say she reads for an hour or more 5 times a week.

Geography - we will start this back up next month for a couple of weeks before the holidays.

We also took some time to learn about the five senses, pumpkins, spiders and Thanksgiving.
This coming week is a short week, I'm thinking 2 days. It will be filled with some Thanksgiving crafting and maybe some Christmas list making.

week of the October 10th

Another successful week here.

Math - Reviewed coins, addition facts and did 5 lessons in her Horizon 1st grade book 1(learned to add double digits)

Reading - Finished up Ramona and her Father, read lots of fall books together. And she did alot of reading on her own throughout the week.

Spelling - She did lesson 17 in Spelling Workout B, she can spell all the words coorect except for people, for some reason she keeps putting an a instead of o. This coming week is review so hopefully by the end of the week she will get that word spelled correctly.

Writing - Writing with Ease 1 narration is slowly getting somewhat better, copy work is okay when she takes her time.

Grammer - First Language Lessons 1 - finished up learning about Pronouns, she loved it. reviewed all her poems she learned so far.

Handwriting - Daily writing Today is .........day, month, date and year. Sometimes I add a second sentence for her to copy about the weather or something that has happened.

Geography - Worked in her Weekly Reader, she learned about map symbols, how to read them and to locate them on a map.

Art -            she made a cute owl and scarecrow for our Fall wall.

Science - read a lets read and find out book about leaves.

It was a good week.

2 week post

I forgot to blog last week. So this will be a two week update. Jenna's excitement about school this year is priceless.  Everyone was telling me to put her in school, but I had no doubt that schooling her at home was the right thing to do. In school she would not be thriving academically as she is at home. And for the socialization part which seems to bother people more about homeschooling than the academics, well there are many other resources for her to thrive socially. Now I have two older girls that attended public school and I know for a fact that homeschooling wouldn't of been a good fit for them. Some of my favorite parts about homeschooling is that I know my daughter better than anyone else, so I know what works and what doesn't. I know her learning style and can   pick her curriculum to fit that learning style. She is in K this year, but is in a different grade level in most of her subjects. I love that she gets one on one attention in all her subjects. We can get a day of school done in shorter time than public school and accomplish much more.  Also, sleeping in, staying in jammies and eating while going over math facts or money is all advantages. But the best part of all is playing a major role in my daughters education and seeing all her acomplishments first hand.

Okay enough of that, now about Jenna's schooling the last two weeks.

Math - Horizon book 1 1st grade we ended with lesson 35 and she is excited to start adding double digits next week. We also did some addition math facts, money and some apple graphing.

Reading - She finished up Ramona and her Mother and started Ramona and her Father today. And lots and lots of fall books. Explode the Code book 7 is done yeah, Jenna is happy that we are almost done with explode the code, one more book to go.

Spelling - Spelling book B lesson 15 and 16 completed. She loves the profreading the best.

Grammer - First Language Lessons 1 she finished up nouns and made a poster to show what she learned.  4 poems memorized and working on the 5th she has it almost all memorized. Also did some worksheets here and there for reinforcement.

Writing - Writing with Ease book 1 - she doesn't mind the copy work but doesn't like the nararation, but isn't bad at it. we also worked on some worksheets about sentences in their proper form. And some unscramble the sentence sheets.

Vocabulary - Wordly Wise K she did one lesson

Geography - We did some review and started working on a weekly reader grade 2 that I picked up at a yard sale. She really enjoys it.

Leaves and apples have been our science and art the past two weeks. She made some really cool coffee filter leaves for our big tree on our fall wall, made some trees out of papertowel rolls to go with what we learned in The Seasons Of Arnold's Apple Tree, made an apple man, a tree with pencil eraser apples, learned about our 5 senses with the apples, wrote an acrostic poem about apples, made an apple man and did some apple picking and growing sequencing.

Penpal - She finally started writing to one of her penpals again this week.

Well that's about it. We have had lots of learning and fun these past two weeks.