Optimus Prime & Bumblebee:
Schoolwork on Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, & Friday. Wednesday & Saturday off.
Subjects:
Math - Time & money for the whole quarter.
Days - Everyday
Textbooks - The Complete Book of Time & Money Grades K-3 (American Education Publishing)
Number of Pages - 2
English - Large focus on reading comprehension. I'm still waiting on our books, once I get them I'll let you know.
Days - Everyday
Textbooks -
Number of Pages - 2
Spelling Review - A review of the spelling words & units from the entire school year.
Days - Everyday
Textbooks - None, just loose worksheets.
Number of Pages - 1 1/2
Concept - A three month long Concept Unit that focuses completely on dinosaurs.
Days - Everyday
Textbooks - Science Essentials Dinosaurs Grades 1-3 (School Specialty Publishing), DK Eyewitness Books Dinosaurs (DK Publishing)
Number of Pages - Varies day-to-day
Other "Subjects":
Reading - Reading simple storybooks on their own.
Sign Language - Learning basic sign language to help Scooby-Doo communicate better, and to help us communicate better with him.
Some final notes:Reading - Reading simple storybooks on their own.
Sign Language - Learning basic sign language to help Scooby-Doo communicate better, and to help us communicate better with him.
- Summer here is June & July, however since we do quarters May gets lumped into summer for us. So they will have a nice easy schedule for May, which, I won't lie, is a huge relief for me.
- Subjects dropped for the summer? Handwriting, Science, Spanish, History/Geography, and Logic. Yes, even the beloved Logic has been dropped.
- Spelling has been turned into Spelling Review. What does this mean, exactly? We will review their old spelling words. I was going to do a whole new set of units, however I realized the other day that I would serve them better by reviewing the words they never got down. If they get them down, then we'll have some new units. We'll see.
- Scooby-Doo will not be doing speech therapy during the summer, but he will for May (this really applies to the other schedule).
- We're trying out a new thing for Concept Weeks this quarter. Instead it will be a "Concept Quarter" with the theme going on for the whole quarter. I'm going to play around with the Concept Weeks next school year, so this is a prelude to that.
- I've added Sign Language on for the summer. We're retiring Spanish until third grade rolls around, but we're doing sign language for Scooby-Doo, to help with his speech therapy.
- Baseball will still be going on for May, followed by the pool in the park for June & July.
- Reading Comprehension will still be lumped in with English. It might stay like this for good, not sure.
- Learning to read will still be our main focus.
- This (learning to read) is part of the reason for the half days. The other reason? It's summer! My kids should be more worried about having fun. We are doing schoolwork because my kids like to brain dump, because their schedule is pretty easy in general through the school year, and because (no lie) they get antsy if we take too much time off from schoolwork. They like taking an extra day off here and there, but when it goes on for more than four days or so they start whining.
Final, final note? This is the last quarter that Optimus Prime and Bumblebee are on the exact same schedule. Next quarter they will have different ones.
Scooby-Doo:
Curriculum May-July 2014
Scooby-Doo STILL isn't preschool age yet (he won't be for more than a year), but he loves doing his schoolwork and it's starting to help his speech so we're going to keep at it. This quarter we're going to have an actual schedule with actual curriculum which we will try to stick to.
The goal was schoolwork on Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, & Friday with Wednesday & Saturday off. The reality averaged out to every other day that his brothers did schoolwork.
Subjects:
Numbers - Reviewing the numbers 1-10, reviewing counting, each day will have it's own number that we focus on.
Days - Everyday.
Textbooks -
Number of Pages - 2
Letters - Reviewing the alphabet, each day will have it's own letter that we focus on.
Days - Everyday
Textbooks -
Number of Pages - 2
Logic - Reviewing Colors & Shapes, learning Same or Different and other similar concepts.
Days - Everyday
Textbooks -
Number of Pages - 2
Art - Coloring and painting.
Days - Everyday
Textbooks - Coloring books.
Number of Pages - 2
Other "Subjects":
Story Time - Reading a book every afternoon, even on days off.
Words Review - Going over simple words with him to help his speech. This will be everyday, even on days off.
Sign Language - Learning basic sign language everyday, even days off.
Final Notes:
Scooby-Doo:
Curriculum May-July 2014
Scooby-Doo STILL isn't preschool age yet (he won't be for more than a year), but he loves doing his schoolwork and it's starting to help his speech so we're going to keep at it. This quarter we're going to have an actual schedule with actual curriculum which we will try to stick to.
The goal was schoolwork on Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, & Friday with Wednesday & Saturday off. The reality averaged out to every other day that his brothers did schoolwork.
Subjects:
Numbers - Reviewing the numbers 1-10, reviewing counting, each day will have it's own number that we focus on.
Days - Everyday.
Textbooks -
Number of Pages - 2
Letters - Reviewing the alphabet, each day will have it's own letter that we focus on.
Days - Everyday
Textbooks -
Number of Pages - 2
Logic - Reviewing Colors & Shapes, learning Same or Different and other similar concepts.
Days - Everyday
Textbooks -
Number of Pages - 2
Art - Coloring and painting.
Days - Everyday
Textbooks - Coloring books.
Number of Pages - 2
Other "Subjects":
Story Time - Reading a book every afternoon, even on days off.
Words Review - Going over simple words with him to help his speech. This will be everyday, even on days off.
Sign Language - Learning basic sign language everyday, even days off.
Final Notes:
- Scooby-Doo will not have speech therapy this summer. He will resume in August/September. To make up for this we will work on his speech therapy at home the best we can.
- We will try our hand at sign language this summer to help his communication.
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