Numbers & Math - Reviewing numbers, practicing handwriting, basic addition problems, beginning the concept of subtraction, numerical order (first, second, third, etc)
Textbooks - Total Math Kindergarten (American Education Publishing), Comprehensive Curriculum of Basic Skills Kindergarten (American Education Publishing), character and generic number workbooks from the dollar section of Target and/or the dollar store
Number of Pages* - We used to do 5 pages a day, then we were doing 10, but now we are up to 15
Letters & Words - Reviewing letters, practicing handwriting, working on words that all start with the same letter, words that rhyme
Textbooks - Total Reading Kindergarten (American Education Publishing), Comprehensive Curriculum of Basic Skills Kindergarten (American Education Publishing), character and generic letters and/or words workbooks from the dollar section of Target and/or the dollar store
Number of Pages* - We used to do 5 pages a day, then we were doing 10, but now we are up to 15
Spelling - 5 word units of words that are all related. For example, some of our units have been "Family Members," "Animals," "B Words," "-am Words," etc. We used to spend two weeks on a unit but I've recently shortened it to one week to see how that works.
Textbooks - None, right now I'm just writing the words on blank paper and having them write them a few times everyday
Number of Pages* - 2, one page of practicing the words, another with an activity
Logic - Same/different, greater than/less than, patterns, practicing drawing shapes (they know their shapes, they just aren't very neat about it), opposites, mazes, numerical and alphabetical dot-to-dots, etc.
Textbooks - Total Math Kindergarten (American Education Publishing), Total Reading Kindergarten (American Education Publishing), Comprehensive Curriculum of Basic Skills (American Education Publishing), character and generic logic, shapes and/or skills workbooks from the dollar section of Target and/or the dollar store
Number of Pages* - We used to do 5 pages, then we were doing 10, but now we are up to 15
Art - coloring and painting
Textbooks - Cheap coloring books from the dollar store of their favorite cartoon characters, as well as cheap paint with water books
Number of Pages* - 6 pages, any more and they get bored
Tuesday/Saturday:
Off
First and Third Friday:
Arts & Crafts Day - No set curriculum for this day. We paint statues from craft stores, build paper pirate ship kits, do sand art pictures, etc. For two months we even worked on growing seeds inside to plant in our vegetable garden. Basically anything goes so long as it's fun.
Second and Forth Friday:
Magazine Day - We have subscriptions to magazines like Highlights, Scooby-Doo, Thomas, etc. These are the days I pull out the magazines we received over the month. We read the stories in them, do the activities in them (like hidden pictures), bake the recipes in them, do the letter and number worksheets in them, etc.
Every Friday:
Spelling - Every Friday we have a spelling test of 10 words plus one Bonus Word. The first five words are words from previous units that they still do not have down. The next 5 words are the words from our current unit. Lastly there is a "Bonus Word" for extra credit. The Bonus Word is a word that is harder than their normal words.
Subjects we no longer cover:
- Reading Comprehension - We used to do this. I'd get a book, write up about 20 or so questions for it, then read them the book and ask the questions. It was getting to the point where they would answer every question correctly in one sitting.
- Mythology - I really wanted to do this, they really wanted to do this, it just didn't work. They were always asking me mythology questions so it just seemed logical to do this. However all of it went completely over their heads. It got to the point where none of us wanted to do this anymore.
* One page refers to just the front, two refers to the front and back.
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