Officially, this is week 10 of school. When we started on September 1, 2009, my intent was to follow Squeak’s lead and go to school when she wanted to...
Well, this week we are starting something new – 3 day a week school! Squeak was going at a 5 day a week pace and I was starting to get a bit tired (Piglet’s screaming wasn’t helping!). So I broke the news to Squeak last week that we were going down to 3 days a week for a while and in this panicked voice, she asks “WHY??” It was really cute!
Anyways, I bought a bunch of “non-school” activities to do on non-school days. More project-like things – I listed a few under my “curriculum” listing on the side. Literature Pockets, lap booking and I bought a book called “Never Bored Kid” book. All of those things require coloring, glue, scissors, etc. That way, I can shorten our official school time and still give her lots of crafts and projects to do. BEFORE (Squeak led), we were hitting about 45 minutes or so of school. I’m trying to tone it down to less than 30 minutes.
Monday, Wednesday and Friday is the schedule (of course days can be switched around) and each school day I like to cover the following: Bible, Memory verse, math and something else. We’ve been learning about Habitats with our Moving Beyond the Page environment concept so that is really the current “something else”. I also toss in Safety lessons or Community Workers or Thinking Skills as the “something else”.
My thought on this blog is to give some juicy tidbits throughout the week then have a weekly progress update at the end of the week. I will get some pictures up too. We will see how it goes! Please feel free to leave comments…I have it set to leave comments!
This is great! Tell Julie "Good Job"!
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