How many subjects are you doing per grade this year with your students? What are they? For my 1st grade class we're doing just 3: English* Arithmetic1 Spanish^ For 3rd grader (If I get to keep her beyond the summer) I'm hoping to do 4 subjects. PC Skills Arithmetic2 English* Spanish^ *By English I mean Reading, Writing, Spelling and Grammar (written and spoken.) ^Basic (grammatically correct) conversational skills. 1Mastery of Counting, Addition and Subtraction. 2Mastery of facts up to 15 for all 4 operations.
I also have a 1st grader: Reading - Reading Eggs, Reader Rabbit Spelling - Clicknkids & writing worksheets Phonics - Clicknkids Maths - Smartkiddies Science - Magic School Bus Music - Casually learn the Recorder Social Studies - Casually learn country locations and capital cities from a world globe or atlas My 4yr old will just do what she can and follow her elder brother. She also plays with Cool School and Jumpstart.
My 3rd grade son: Math Grammar Spelling Science Social Studies Reading Handwriting Bible We are also going to start working on typing My 10th grade daughter World History Algebra Literature Art (at her request) History of Art (again, at her request - she loves art) Health (at her request) Science is still questionable Bible
Right now, I have a k-er and a 2nd grader. K: math (count to 100, read numerals through 100, write numerals through 100) reading: phonics. As far as we can get writing: learn correct formation of upper & lower case letters and numerals bible: listen to bible stories and discuss/color/do puzzles science - listen to a series of books, including History of Insects, Burgess Animal Book (current), Burgess Bird Book while reviewing images/sound files of animals (trips to the zoo work, too). Did a nature study class at a regional nature center. History - listen in on older brother's history, do mapwork/coloring 2nd: math - multiplication and division through 12 reading (literature) - read aloud from a series of literature selected by me; read silently from selections agreed on mutually (finished phonics last year) handwriting: spelling words, copy work, practicing correct formation of print letter spelling - McGuffey, grade 2 levels per OFE History: listen to /do activities from SOTW Vol 2; read from The Beginner's American History and narrate Science - anything I can get for him to do, in addition to doing all his brother's (K) science. The kid devours it, I can barely keep up. Worksheets, books, he has a microscope, he reads books. He chose Physics for Dummies when I gave him his choice of ANY book in a book store. Did a nature study class at a regional nature center. French - currently working through a French primer - just vocabulary, no direct grammar. We also watch movies with the French sound track instead of English. Music: working on basic piano and recorder skills. Slow progress, but steady progress. All my children must suffer music appreciation while I listen to my Pandora channels - my NY Phil channel, world musics, etc. Art - working through a series of basic drawing/sketching lessons. He is almost finished a book on drawing classic Disney cartoons. We also work from What to Draw and How to Draw it. (The kindergartener likes this, too. Very accessible) For 1st last year, we did something like this: math - addition and subtraction facts through 20 (this was tough for my son, but owrth it, He's had a MUCH easier time with multilplication and division. reading - finished phonics, read from McGuffey Readers for the remainder of the year. History - SOTW Vol 1 spelling - McGuffey Speller per OFE grade 1 handwriting - basic formation of letter and numbers, writing his name, address, phone, bible verses. Writing was VERY difficult for my son last year - he only really started writing words without grief about the middle of first grade Music - started piano 1/2 way through. Listened to stories about composers and recordings handcrafts - lots of building with lincoln logs and tinker toys. This was a fantastic learning experience for my son - learning to read plans and even adapt when we didn't have certain pieces. I look forward to being able to bring this back. French - we did The Easy French, but I found it was a lot of prep work and decided to wait until the other boys were old enough to benefit from the time I put in getting things ready. Plus, then they can play the games together. Science - we read through the Among the <whatever> Folks (meadow, forest, pond). These are wonderful books. We were supposed to continue with them through this year, but my son finished them all last year. We also gardened A LOT. We also fit things in. When we're in Houston, we try to hit Discovery Green for their family yoga class (it wasn't on last time we were there), and the boys take taekwondo with their dad.
9th grade SOS English Geography: The World and its People Math (school textbook) Apologia's Exploring Creation with Biology Art instruction (local gallery w/ professional) PE Cooking Around the World Basic Sewing (taught by a friend who is a seamstress) 7th grade SOS Language Arts Math (school textbook) BJU science World History Spelling Power PE ART Elective type subjects undecided 1st Grade Hooked on Phonics Horizons Math Read & Learn with Classic Stories/FIAR Printing practice/journal, alternating days Story of the World w/ activity book projects Science (self designed with Rookie Reader Science books, DVD's, & experiments) Art (mixed media/Draw*Write*Now/Meet the Masters) Daily PE is one of our goals. I really got out of the routine the last couple of months. Parks are not so great around here, our new city, so its been hard to get the kids motivated. I'm gonna try a few ideas from the forum (Like "Chicken Fat" and Wii dance games), and jump ropes. Plus I'm having my husband make a tether ball for the back yard.
2nd grade: Reading Comprehension English Latin Spelling Handwriting Creative writing Math Science Geography (term 1) History (terms 2 & 3) Art Music Bible Health
We always do Bible, Reading, Grammar, Math, Science, and History/Geography. What each student is doing in each area might be vastly different, however. For English, I might have one student doing CLE with grammar, penmanship, spelling, and composition all in one, while another might be doing R&S English with separate penmanship and spelling. Spelling is usually a separate grade on my report cards even if done in an all-in-one. I usually include a grade for conduct/work habits and one for Language Arts Enhancement (which might include Daily Grams, or little one-page stories with questions such as Spectrum, or a page from a Critical Thinking book, or .... ). If they're seventh grade and above, they get to go volunteer several hours one day a month at the church's Food Pantry, and get a grade and hours under Service Learning. I don't usually put a grade for penmanship on the report card, even if we do a separate program such as Pentime. I plan to include some extra reading/discussion this year, too, without grading. I'll have a second grader and an older student with learning issues who can both use some extra reading/comprehension, so I have picked out a couple of Abeka primary level readers that we'll read aloud together taking turns and then discuss - without grading anything. We'll probably do that a couple of times or so a week. Oh, I almost forgot - "art" this year will include Draw Write Now, but we'll probably include crafts projects here and there as well.
12th gr ds SOS English SOS Algebra II SOS Physics SOS Bible SOS Government (?) ACE Digital Graphics and Design A course on Good Stewardship form Crown College Character Qualities Study 7th gr ds English Writing Spelling Bible US History/Geography Math-Own a Sports Store-SCM Reading Science Character Qualities Study K4 ds Bible Teach Your Child to Read in Just 10 Min. a Day Morning Board (Kind of like the one on 1+1+1=1 Math Science (w/7thgr) History/Geography (w/7thgr) Character Qualities 2.5 yr ds Bible Character Qualities Just going along and getting as much or as little as he wants!
This year for 2nd grade we are doing: Math Bible Reading Lang. Arts (spelling, writing, phonics) Handwriting Logic History Art Music Latin Health Science Last year for 1st grade we pretty much did the same except without Latin. Art, Music, Logic and Health are not done every day or even every week. Art projects went along with our history and music we did Story of the Orchestra later in the year. This year I have Art and Music scheduled for at least once a week while logic and health will be ocassional units/worksheets
This is my first year of homeschooling so I'm probably doing too much in some areas, not enough in others. But, anyway, here's what I'm doing: Kindergartener We do these on a daily basis- Bible Language Skills: "AlphaPhonics"; "Games for Reading"; misc K level workbooks; BOB books Read-Alouds: "Picture Book Activities"; various chapter books Math: hands-on math activities (from Bright Beginnings early learning curriculum); I'm still looking for the next step in math for him... Handwriting: Handwriting Without Tears Character/Bible verse memorization: we learn two character traits and two verses per month Arts&Crafts: various activities We do these once or twice a week: Science: "The World God Made" with various mini-units (Water, Sun/Moon/Stars, Spring, various animals, My Body, The Senses) Music: intro to instruments; listening to various styles of music Phys Ed: Sports unit (basic skills, intro to sports/exercise); interest-led Social Studies: Community unit (family, friends, community helpers) Preschooler same as Kindergartner but doing pre-reading and pre-writing activities and workbooks instead of phonics.
For 1st grade this year we are doing: Phonics & Lang. arts ( reading,writing, reading comprehension, some light grammar) Handwriting Math Science Geography History Critical thinking and Logic Activities Also Art and music are interwoven with a lot of the other subjects, but I'm sure we will do some Art an music activities separately. I dont currently have much of a plan for a PE curriculum, but between sports with our home school group, dance, wii and our yoga DVD's (and i'm considering maybe signing them up for martial arts) I think we will have no shortage of physical activity. I kind of want to do some french with them as well, but might wait till next year, so we dont feel overwhelmed.. or might just do some easy activities to get a feel for if we want to ( or have time to) do more.
1st grader Bible/Missions History Geography Math Language Arts: Literature (Read-Alouds), Handwriting, Reading, Phonics, informal writing, Grammar (Mad Libs), Vocabulary Science Art Music PE Mandarin Arabic French Sinhala Koine Greek Logic 3rd Grader Bible/Missions History Geography Math Language Arts: Literature (Read-Alouds), Reading, Spelling, Handwriting, Grammar, Poetry, Vocabulary, Writing Science Art Music PE Mandarin Arabic French Sinhala Koine Greek Logic I think that is everything, but I may have missed something since I don't have everything planned out yet. I do a modified loop schedule which allows me to be able to cover more subjects.
I have 2 daughters one in 5th and one in 7th. Here are the subjects we do along with them being on a swim team. They practice 4-5 a week. Math Science Social Studies Art Language Arts Language Extensions Spelling Geography Writing something weekly My seem like alot but not every subject is done daily.
Here's our subjects and links to what we are using for it 1st grade: State required Subjects: Reading ClickNKids - and a Library card Language Arts - We'll write-I'm using a mish mash of things for LA Math Total Math 3 Science Apologia Zoology 1 Social Studies - Local & State history (lots of field trips) and holiday history And we'll add: Bible Study (ABC's of the Bible)/character training Life Skills - That come up as you live life... Spanish LiveMocha (at his request) Maybe ASL next semester in place of Spanish And cursive Arts & Crafts - taking a class at co-op plus we'll work A&C into other subjects Our main focus will be on Bible and the 3 R's though Though HIS main focus is always on science LOL For my 3, almost 4 year old: Bible Study (ABC's of the Bible)/character training Life Skills Spanish LiveMocha And he likes his online phonics program.... And he likes to read a LOT
Let me see.... ALL OF THEM will do: Bible* Geography* Handwriting Spelling Reading (based on geography) Math (of course!) Science* * being "eased up" for the Kindergartener, but she'll participate as much as she is able. The older two will also do: Writing (IEW) Current Events (using God's World News) Grammar Vocabulary Also, we attend a co-op that covers Art, Music and Gym class. AND this year, they'll also be doing Biology for the two older kids. So, they'll get extra science. Also, oldest & youngest do gymnastics, and my middle does Karate. Man, I'm getting tired just reading this! LOL
For 4th Grader: *Character Quality Language Arts~This includes spelling, vocab, handwriting, writing, and grammar. *Unit Study~This includes science, history, geography, and art/music appreciation. *Singapore Math *Horizons Health *Bible Study Guide For PreK/K: *Language Arts~100 Easy Lessons, Language Lessons for Little Ones, Happy Phonics, Before the Code books *McRuffy K Math *Horizons Health *Bible Study Guide *Unit Study (along with sister)
3rd grader: spectrum math spectrum phonics spectrum LA 4th grader: spectrum math spectrum LA the two of them will be sharing BJU heritage studies for history and Considering God's Creation for Science and will be doing AWANAS for Bible. we also do alot of PBS,computer math,Drive thru History videos, and Dear America Journal Series books.
I have a 5th grader and 7th grader and we are doing: Language Arts Spelling Math Science Social Studies/History Geography Art We are using Time 4 Learning, Brain Pop, Five in a Row and Saxon.
