First, Optimus Prime & Bumblebee's curriculum for the past thee months:
School on Friday & Saturday, off on Sunday, school on Monday & Tuesday, weekly quizzes and review on Wednesday, off on Thursday.
Letter Practice - Practicing handwriting, reviewing the alphabet, etc.
Days - Friday & Monday
Quizzes - None
Textbooks - Total Reading 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 - 2 1/2
Number Practice - Practicing handwriting, working on counting to 100, etc.
Days - Saturday & Tuesday
Quizzes - None
Textbooks - Total Math Kindergarten (American Education Publishing), character and generic numbers workbooks from the dollar section of Target and/or the dollar store.
Number of Pages - 2 1/2
Spanish - Practicing Spanish vocabulary (broken into different units) and comprehension.
Days - Friday, Saturday, Monday & Tuesday
Quizzes - None
Textbooks - The Complete Book of Starter Spanish Grades PK-1 (American Education Publishing)
Number of Pages - 2
Science - Learning about different animals (broken into units) with some reading comprehension thrown into the mix.
Days - Friday, Monday & Tuesday
Quizzes - None
Textbooks - The Complete Book of Animals Grades 1-3 (American Education Publishing)
Number of Pages - 1
English - Learning the difference between vowels and consonants, learning how to sound words out, synonyms, antonyms, compound words, rhyming words, nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, sentences, punctuation marks, etc.
Days - Friday, Saturday, Monday & Tuesday
Quizzes - Every Wednesday
Textbooks - English Grade 1 (American Education Publishing), Total Basic Skills Grade 1 (American Education Publishing), Scholastic Success With 1st Grade Workbook (Scholastic Teaching Resources)
Number of Pages - 2
Math - Addition, subtraction, time, measuring, fractions, etc.
Days - Friday, Saturday, Monday & Tuesday
Quizzes - Every Wednesday
Textbooks - Comprehensive Curriculum of Basic Skills Grade 1 (American Education Publishing), Spectrum Math Grade 1 (Spectrum)
Number of Pages - 2
History/Geography - Map reading, directions, land-forms, continents, etc.
Days - Saturday & Monday
Quizzes - The Wednesday after the unit ends
Textbooks - Beginning Geography Grades K-2 (Evan-Moor)
Number of Pages - 1
Reading & Reading Comprehension - Learning to read level 1 books, as well as some reading comprehension & activities with some short stories.
Days - Friday, Saturday, Monday & Tuesday
Quizzes - A book report due every Wednesday
Textbooks - Listen, Read, & Learn Grade 1 (American Education Publishing) for the reading comprehension stories and activities, Step Into Reading Level 1 books for learning how to read.
Number of Pages - Will vary from day to day.
Spelling - Spelling words & units
Days - Friday, Saturday, Monday & Tuesday
Quizzes - Every Wednesday
Textbooks - No set textbook, however Comprehensive Curriculum of Basic Skills Grade 1 (American Education Publishing) has a spelling unit section that I will be pulling pages from and Brain Quest Workbook: Kindergarten (Brain Quest) has a spelling section that I plan on using. I have also printed up sheets from education.com and schoolexpress.com to go along with the spelling units.
Number of Pages - 2 1/2
Logic - Same/different, patterns, opposites, mazes, dot-to-dots, etc.
Days - Friday, Saturday (twice), Monday & Tuesday
Quizzes - None
Textbooks - Total Reading Kindergarten (American Education Publishing), generic 1st grade logic workbooks
Number of Pages - 2 1/2
Art - Coloring, painting, activities in coloring books, etc.
Days - Saturday & Monday
Quizzes - None
Textbooks - Cheap coloring books from the dollar store of their favorite cartoon characters, as well as cheap paint with water books
Number of Pages - 2
Why are all subjects not covered everyday? Why are some subjects skipped?
- I don't want to overload them their first quarter. They're going to have enough on their plate as it is.
- Also, do we really need to cover some of these subjects everyday? And I'm not just talking about Logic and Art. Our Science book is neat, and it talks about a different animal on every page, but do we really need to learn about a new animal everyday? Or should we take some time to make sure they have some other concepts down? Their Geography book is neat, and doing more would of been nice, however it's a short book and I'm not sure how well they will understand it at first. To even things out and because of the lack of pages in the book it just made sense to only cover this subject twice a week.
- Why is there no gym? Someone asked me this the other day so here's my response: they already get plenty of exercise! They play sports, they do yoga, we go to the pool, we take walks, we are signing them up for football soon - why on earth do we need a gym class?!?
- No mythology still? Too true. I'm working on this problem. I'm having a hard time finding stuff for 1st graders. I might just have to make something myself.
- Where did Arts & Crafts Day go? Well, this isn't kindergarten anymore! I'm not saying we will never do arts & crafts again, but we won't have a whole day dedicated to it anymore. We needed to make room for all of the quizzes that they will be doing, and a day to write up and review their book reports. I'm hoping that their book reports will help them learn how to read and right now reading is my biggest priority, more than anything else.
- Where did Magazine Day go? It also got tossed. Like I said, this isn't kindergarten anymore. We'll still read the magazines and do the activities in them, it just won't be for school anymore.
Scooby-Doo's original post about our goals for the past three months:
Scooby Doo isn't preschool age yet, but he loves watching his older brothers do their schoolwork, and he likes to feel involved so I decided to start doing schoolwork fairly regularly with him. When Optimus Prime & Bumblebee were three we did one page (front and back) of schoolwork everyday. Since Scooby Doo isn't three yet I'm not going to go with such a set schedule but I do have some "Colors & Shapes" workbooks that I picked up for him at the dollar store. I figure we'll tackle however many pages he wants each day, whether it is zero pages or ten pages.
I also set a book goal for us. We read everyday as a family (see our Reading List page) and I'll read any book to them that they bring me, but I decided that Scooby Doo needs some more "us time" to read more board books together so that is one of our goals for the next three months. We'll set aside time everyday to read three books together, without his brothers.
Average for everyday of the past three months:
- 1 page from a "Colors & Shapes" workbook (Dora, Care Bears, Minnie Mouse, and generic).
- 3 pages (front and back) coloring books.
- 3 board books a day
*all page number refer to the front and back of one page. Example, 1 page means the front and back of one page, 1/2 page means just the front (or just the back) of a page, etc.
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