With a new baby due in about 6 weeks, I am seriously slowing down on everything. Literally. I walk like I'm moving in slow motion and my brain function certainly isn't up to par.
My new homeschooling plan: until the baby comes, and maybe for a few weeks after while I'm getting back up to speed, we will read books. Books, books, and more books. About anything and everything. We go to the library once a week already. Sunny and Posy sit reading whatever random book they happen to pull off the shelf, and I wander through the nonfiction section for kids and pull other random books off the shelf. Right now, we have science books about bodies and more particularly about bones, books of poetry (Shel Silverstein rocks), a couple of silly books about grammar, and a couple of classics like Frog and Toad.
Today, we rounded up all the library books and stacked them on the table, and started reading through them. We stopped to discuss words that they didn't know and wrote definitions for our vocabulary word filebox, and for handwriting practice, Sunny wrote the vocab words on our whiteboard. The girls lasted about an hour and a half of doing this. We read a couple of stories - Sunny read out loud for her practicing (without me telling her she was practicing, of course), and we read a lot of poetry and about poetry. We didn't do anything about math/numbers - that's the only issue at this point that I see to be resolved.
I'm going to shoot for an hour in the morning and an hour or more in the afternoon - at least 2 hours per day and it counts as a school-day in my book.
1 comment:
A couple of thoughts about your schedule. You mentioned that last week you only got 4 days of school in. Some school districts are going to a 4 day week, so you're doing fine there. This week you said that you're hoping to get in 2 hours. If you think about all the time spent in kindergarten - playing, giving instructions multiple times, waiting for stragglers or other disruptions, my guess is you're getting at least as much learning time as they are in a regular school and yours is all one to one and tailored to your students' needs. I think you're doing an excellent job.
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