This year I am moving on to PreK with my daughter. I cannot believe how much she has learned last year. She knows almost all of her letters and sounds. She can color and count. She loves books and can retell stories. And she can memorize well. We will be off to a great start in the fall. We will be concentrating on her fine motor skills like cutting, writing and coloring. She just loves school time.
I can't believe we are heading into First Grade next year! It seemed like it took forever to get to Kindergarten (remember I taught K for 12 years before I had kids) and so this is NEW territory for me. I thought and researched a lot and found what I think will work best for this coming year. We are using the next volume in a few areas and trying a few new books. I'm very excited. I got my new planner and I'm starting to fill it out with important dates.
I will be sharing two curriculum posts- one for my son and one for my daughter. So be looking out for my PreK choices coming up soon.
Reading- We had to change our reading curriculum because what were using was not working well enough for my son to grasp some key reading foundation skills. So we switched to All About Reading starting in Level 1.
Activities-
*Awana
*Volunteer at the Food Bank
*Homeschool Co-op
For PE we will try to go outside and do some running, play at parks, climbing, jumping, games with balls, riding bike and anything active. We also do exercises in the house, run the stairs and some fun kids yoga videos.
This year I'm going to try a block schedule. So basically I'm going to do split the year into 6 terms. During each term I will do Language Arts, Math, Morning Time and 2 extra subjects. If I don't get the extra subjects done, that's OK.
So for my son the first term we will do Language Arts (Language Lessons, Handwriting, Reading), Math, Morning Time, Science and Music.
I was trying to come up with something simple so I can fit the many things in, but not all at the same time. I watched this webinar by Pam Barnhill and Sarah Mackenzie that inspired me greatly.
I do a lot of learning things at meals like verbal math, Bible stories, read-alouds, questions and answers, memorizing. I also do some of these things during Morning Time.
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