With the procuring of a digital camera for Christmas, I swear I will blog again. I really want to have a record of our homeschooling that cannot be destroyed by spills and takes up no space. To start, here’s a summary of what we’ve done for the first half of the school year.
Zeke – grade 3
Language Arts
MCT Island Level. Zeke has read Grammar Island and has begun Practice Island, Sentence Island, Building Language, and Music of the Hemispheres.
Linguistic Development Through Poetry Memorization. We have memorized the first 8.5 poems.
WWE 2. Yes, 2 not 3. I swear we will finish 2 and start 3 this school year and continue working on WWE 3 over the summer.
Writing Skills 3. Zeke has done 2 units from this book.
Phonetic Zoo. Zeke recently started this. He is doing well and enjoying it. He is on lesson 4 – OUGH.
Evan Moor Daily Language Review and Daily Handwriting Practice: Traditional Cursive.
A Roald Dahl unit comprised of a biography, The BFG with a guide from MBtP, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory with a Novel Thinking guide, The Fantastic Mr. Fox and a recycling of part of the Novel Thinking guide to write a paper comparing the book to the movie, and Danny the Champion of the World.
Independent reading. Zeke read all of the books in the Henry Huggins series. (He’s actually just now half-way through Ribsy.)
Foreign Language
Song School Latin. Zeke has done about half of this book. It is awesome!
Math
Zeke has been doing McRuffy Color Math 3, supplemented by Math Mammoth and Key to Decimals.
Science
Half way through last year Zeke started Noeo Biology 1. He has spent the first half of this year finishing it.
History
Zeke has been reading and notebooking following the History Odyssey guide for Middle Ages 1. He also made a cool illuminated Z.
Geography
Zeke has done a few pages from The Complete Book of Maps and Geography. We started the year trying out Trail Guide to World Geography but decided it wasn’t what I had hoped for. We got A Child’s Introduction to the World and Zeke has been reading from that and making a sort of Main Lesson Book about it.
Art and Music
We have Music Ace Deluxe and he takes art and music classes at the HSAP.
Ukiah – grade 1
Language Arts
Language Arts 1 and Writing Skills 1 from Harcourt
Daily Handwriting Practice: Modern Manuscript
A Dr. Seuss unit consisting of too many of his books to try to remember
Literature Pockets: Caldecott Winners
A few Nate the Great books
Again, Linguistic Development Through Poetry Memorization – the first 8 or 9 poems.
Math
McRuffy Color Math 1 supplemented by The Complete Book of Time and Money
Science
Moving Beyond the Page 6-8 Concept 4: Matter and Movement
History
listening in on Zeke’s history books
Art and Music
Again, Music Ace Deluxe and HSAP classes.
Jack
Language Arts
Oak Meadow K. Jack has listened to fairy tales and drawn pictures for uppercase letters A-P.
SSRW. Jack has done handwriting practice and phonics practice for letters A-P in his SSRW workbook.
100 EZ Lessons. We just started this. Jack has done 4 lessons from this.
Reading BOB Books.
Math
Oak Meadow K. Jack has listened to stories and drawn pictures for numbers 1-7.
Saxon K. Unfortunately, Jack has only done about 12 or 13 lessons from this so far.
Science
We started out doing the science stories and activities in Oak Meadow, but after seeing his continued boredom with them I decided to order The Berenstain Bears’ Big Book of Science and Nature and read from that instead. It’s a hit!
Art and Music
Oak Meadow K. Jack has done some really awesome crafts from Oak Meadow and he sings songs from Wee Sing Fingerplays that came with it.
NOW. What’s to come at our house?
Zeke is starting to use K12 LA. I decided we don’t get enough of literary terms from MBtP and it is also lacking in short stories, plays and poetry. It seems so many homeschool curricula focus on novels to the exclusion of the other genres of literature and so I tried to pull that back in with K12.
We will all be sitting down for read-alouds and narration CM style for science, which will be Noeo Chemistry 1 books, History, which will continue to be HO Middle Ages books, and “other.” The “other” will be my choice. I’m starting with some Taoist stories and probably some Beatrix Potter.
I will have Ukiah guinea pig a worktext I designed about nouns.
