On our agenda today

We discussed mythology, and have been covering some of the Greek and Roman gods and goddesses.  The girls love hearing these stories.

We did some California work sheets, since Daddy is in San Francisco this week for a class/training.

We were sitting here working on mental math.  I gave the five year old this problem...100-100+50. Without even thinking or counting, she replied "50, that was easy!".

2012-2013 School year has begun!

We started our 2012-2013 school year on 30 July 2012!  I am going to post our curriculum we accomplished each week.  Feel free to use any ideas you see to help in your teaching experience.  We like to do hands on work, but still use workbooks, pencils, and paper.  I haven't figured out a way to do everything hands on...yet!

We are sticking with last year's schedule, it seemed to work really well for us.


4- Mommy's time for e-mail, getting school prep done, morning chores, and cooking breakfast
 5- eat breakfast together, cleans up, and gets ready for our day, Pet Chores
 6-Language Arts/Reading
 7- Math
 8- Science
 9- Social Studies (Geography, History, etc.)
10-Computer Time
11- Lunch and Clean up
12- Outdoor or Art time
 1- Bike Ride or Free Time
 2- Housework/Chores
 3- Dinner Prep
 4- Dinner, Clean up
 5- Bed Time Routine, Housework (Mommy)
 6- Bed Time, Housework (Mommy)

We have two evenings a week that are different from 3-6, due to ballet class.  The girls still get to sleep at the same time, just a different setup and routine.


We hope you enjoy watching our learning journey as much as we like taking it.

19 September - 23 September

McKenzie's curriculum:

Language Arts:
letters and sounds
color words
rhyming
beginning sounds
writing; name, address, age
following directions

Math:
color by number
addition
missing numbers
counting
numeral order
measuring
shortest, tallest, longest
equal size
guessing and checking
finding similarities
finding differences
relationships of objects
comparing
sequencing
graphing
classifying
graphing

Charlie's curriculum:
Language Arts:
compound words
completing questions
comprehesion
long a words
long e words (ea)
long i words (silent e)
long a words (ai)
long u words (silent e)
long o words (oa)
short o sound
synonyms
creative writing


Math:
subtraction
double digit subtraction
addition
word problems
measuring
fractions
telling time
graphing
counting money

12 September - 16 September

McKenzie's curriculum:
Language Arts:
rhyming
beginning sounds

Math:
money

Charlie's curriculum:
Language Arts:
adjectives

Math:
addition
subtraction
counting by 5's
addition word problems
subtraction word problems
connect the dots 1-100
counting by 2's

Social Studies:
other lands
writing lists
manners
occupations

5 September - 9 September 2011

McKenzie's curriculum:
Language Arts:
following directions
story order

Math:

Time
Money
graphing
patterning
opposites
shapes
numbers 1-10


Charlie's curriculum:
Language Arts:
sentence construction
describing sentences



Math:
counting by 2's
counting by 5's
addition
subtraction
double digit addition
numbers 1-100
number words
patterning



Both Girls  are working on:
Science:

Food Pyramid
Healthy meals

Social Studies:
Aulstralia

29 August - 2 September 2011

McKenzie's curriculum:
Language Arts:
Journal writing

- What is cats could read?
Words that Rhyme
Classifying
Where does it belong
Word and Picture match
Positional words
Alphabetic order
Relating Words to Pictures
Observing Details
Coloring and Following Directions
Finishing a Pattern

Math:
counting

Greater than vs. Less than

Shapes and Colors (she is past this, but she is reading the color words to find out  what she needs to do.)
Finding Shapes and Counting
Finishing Patterns
Telling Time
Matching Time
Showing Times
Finding Times
Penny Counting
Nickel Counting


Charlie's curriculum:
Language Arts:
Journal writing

- What if cats could read?
Sentence Construction
Statements
Math:
Penny counting

Nickel counting

Dime counting

Counting exact change
Telling Time
Time Sequencing
Measuring Time
Days of the Week
Months of the Year
Visual Discrimination
Science
Plant Life Cycle
Butterfly Life Cycle
Person Life Cycle
Liquids and Solids
Recycling
Sorting Recycling


Both Girls  are working on:
Science:
Body parts and functions

Social Studies:
Community

- What we take advantage of

- What we depend on

- What would change in our lives if the closest store (clothing and grocery) was 150+ and 400+ miles away!

- What would we do differently

- What would we continue to do

22 August - 26 August 2011

McKenzie's curriculum:
Language Arts:
Upper/Lowercase matching
Alphabetic order
Beginning letters
Ending sounds
Spelling
Story Order
Belongs together
Does not belong


Math:
Count and write
Missing numbers
Dot to dot
Greater than
1 More
2 More
Less than
1 Less
2 Less
Number writing
Number find



Charlie's curriculum:
Language Arts:
Question words
Present-tense verbs
Past-tense verbs
Is vs. Are
Plural Nouns
Comprehension
Sequencing
Making Inferences


Math:
Subtraction
Greater than vs. Less than
Fractions
Ordinal numbers
Counting pennies



Both Girls  are working on:
Science:



Social Studies:
Map History
Reading Maps
Imaginary Travel
Goals
Family Tree

15 August - 19 August 2011

McKenzie's curriculum:
Language Arts:
Smaller, Larger, same size
Search and count shapes
Same and Different
What belongs together
Rhyming words
Opposites
Alphabetic order
What is missing
Story order
Letters Before, After, Between

Math:
Guessing and Checking
Ordinal Numbers
Shapes and Counting
Finishing pattern
Observing and Classifying
Relating words and pictures
Counting and graphing
Less than / Greater than
Number writing
Count and match
Count and write

Social Studies:
Household chores

Science:
Living and Non-living
Cause and Effect 


Charlie's curriculum:
Language Arts:
Transportation words
Rhyming words
Nouns
Verbs
Adjectives
Statements
Questions

Math:
Coin value
Coin counting
Addition
Missing number Addition
Subtraction
Double digit Subtraction




Both Girls are working on:
Science:
Body Parts and Functions
Bones
Muscles
Digestive System
How our senses work

Social Studies:
All About Me booklets

Primary Picnic

Today is the Primary Picnic for Charlie's "school"/homeschool enrichment program.  We will be having a picnic lunch with other families with K-3rd graders, as well as meeting the teachers.  We were very involved with the program last year and got to know most of the teachers in and out of Charlie's classes.  This year there are a couple new teachers, and will be several new families.  Charlie is in first grade and will be switching classes with first and second graders, rather than just staying in the first grade class.  She has; Art, Music, Gym, Hands-On Science, and Robotics!  She is super excited that she got to pick two of her classes this year.  Daddy and I are not surprised that they were both Science classes!