...or in our case beforeschooling, since Josh attends PM young 5's. School is going great for him. He is enjoying it, LOVES his teacher and is actually learning quite a bit! He knows more about frogs then anyone would ever want to know! However, we still feel the need to enrich his learning with more. He is way ahead of his class in both math and reading. They are currently learning to count to 20. He could do that at 3 years old. So here is what we are doing...
Science- (as previously
posted!) We have chosen several areas to study and are doing one a month! (
September Biology plans,
October Physical Science plans)
Geography-
Landforms and the Continents using
Continent Boxes,
Continent books, and any other resources I dig up!
History-
Story of the World We are enjoying this but I am having a hard time preparing ahead. I just need to sit down and get things ready for the month in a basket or something so I can just grab!
Music- To our dismay, due to scheduling, Josh does not attend Music at school this year! Therefore, I ordered
Story of the Orchestra : Listen While You Learn About the Instruments, the Music and the Composers Who Wrote the Music!
and am really excited to get started. We plan to begin tomorrow. (Just got it Friday!)
Practical Life- Remember
these? I plan to start back up working on Josh's cookbook. Today was my b-day so I am thinking of having him help make a cake tomorrow (good excuse, right?). We also want to continue working on skills such as...
- tying
- cutting with scissors
- cutting with knife
- pouring
Math- Our main focus right now is on addition and heading toward subtraction. On our shelf you would find...
- Addition Strip Board (info)
- Addition Snake game (info)
- Hundreds board (video)
- Other manipulatives such as counters, dice, etc...
Language- This is the easiest and most natural! We have a reading night planned for Tuesday where we all pile into my bed and read to each other until bedtime. However, he reads to us or we read to him every night before bed normally. So I am not really planning anything extra...yet!
Art- Want to work on a few drawing skills and of course we will do seasonal crafts. We are happy with his school's art program so just having fun here for now!
Really though, this seems like a lot. But we have the entire school year and all summer to accomplish these things. Some weeks we do a ton and some weeks (like last week!) we get NOTHING done. Either way, we are not stressing. Our intention is to have school for an hour 4 days a week before lunch. ...but sometimes...the Lego's just need more attention than the dining room table...ya know?
! Especially the Chicken pox stories. They really are silly and so much fun. The reading levels are 2 or 3 and are fast fun reads.
