There was panic this quarter. The schedule I had written was thrown out when Scooby-Doo started speech therapy every day for two hours a day. Driving the half hour there, spending the two hours there, and then driving the half hour home was too much for us so we shelved most of our schoolwork for about a month and just focused on reading until we got our stride down. Then we had to go back and cover all that lost ground.
Optimus Prime & Bumblebee:
So, our schedule was schoolwork Monday-Friday with Saturday & Sunday off. I was not happy about this, but I had to work with what I was given...
Handwriting - Practicing handwriting (mainly numbers and letters), some counting, some letter sounds, etc.
Days - Monday & Wednesday
Textbooks - Comprehensive Curriculum of Basic Skills Grade K (American Education Publishing), Brain Quest Workbook: Kindergarten (Workman Publishing Company).
Number of Pages - 3
Science - Learning about different animals (broken into units) with some reading comprehension thrown into the mix.
Days - Monday & Wednesday
Textbooks - The Complete Book of Animals Grades 1-3 (American Education Publishing).
Number of Pages - 1
Spanish - Practicing Spanish vocabulary (broken into different units) and comprehension.
Days - Tuesday & Thursday
Textbooks - The Complete Book of Starter Spanish Grades PK-1 (American Education Publishing).
Number of Pages - 3
History/Geography - Map reading, directions, land-forms, continents, etc.
Days - Tuesday & Thursday
Textbooks - Scholastic Success With 1st Grade Workbook (Scholastic Teaching Resources), World Countries, 50 States (both of these workbook were from Target's dollar section) .
Number of Pages - 2
Days - Friday
Textbooks - None. Just a weekly project
Number of Pages - N/A
Logic - Same/different, patterns, opposites, mazes, dot-to-dots, word searches, crosswords, etc.
Days - Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday
Textbooks - Big Puzzle Play (School Zone).
Number of Pages - 2 1/2
Math - Addition, subtraction, fractions, counting by 5's & 10's, time, money, etc.
Days - Monday - Friday
Textbooks - Addition, Subtraction, and Time & Money books from Dollar General and Target.
Number of Pages - 2
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, reading comprehension, etc.
Days - Monday - Friday
Textbooks - Comprehensive Curriculum of Basic Skills Grade 1 (American Education Publishing), Scholastic Success With 1st Grade Workbook (Scholastic Teaching Resources).
Number of Pages - 2
Spelling - Spelling words & units
Days - Monday - Friday
Textbooks - None, just loose worksheets.
Number of Pages - 1 1/2
Some final notes:
- The schedule had to get slimmed down a bit since Scooby-Doo is starting speech therapy.
- The first week of each month will just be our "core" subjects (Logic, Math, English & Spelling) and our Concept Week. Trying to tackle "core" classes, "secondary" classes, and a Concept Week all in one week was too much.
- Baseball in March and April!
- Sight Words has been dropped. I only intended to do it for one quarter. This semester most of our spelling words will be sight words.
- Art will just be once a week, and it will be a project. No more coloring books (for now, at least)!
- Letter & Number Practice has been combined into just Handwriting.
- Reading Comprehension has been dropped. I'm not too happy about this, but I had to slim down our schedule so it was combined with English. We'll have to see if we like this or not as time goes by.
- Since our schedule has been slimmed down so much we're going to use what (little) extra time we have learning how to read. We'll be spending A LOT of time on one-on-one reading to make up for the very basic schedule.
Scooby-Doo:
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. This quarter we have a "real" schedule written up, but if we don't stick to it, I'm not going to worry.
- First off, we are dropping our book goal. He just hasn't been interested this past month, so there is no point in setting a goal he has no desire to meet.
- We have the goal of 1 page (front & back) a day in a Colors & Shapes workbook. He finally getting his shapes down and he's trying to figure out his colors.
- We have the goal of 1 page (front & back) a day in an Alphabet workbook. He's starting to recognize letters so I don't want to stop!
- We have the goal of 1 page (front & back) a day in a Counting workbook. I'm excited over this, since he already knows how to count to 10. I thought about dropping the alphabet books to do this, but since he's starting to get that I don't want to. So we'll just do both!
- Lastly, Scooby-Doo is currently doing speech therapy.
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