I don't do these very often, but thought you might like to know what we are doing recently!
We have just started Term 2 of our AO year. So for Delta, he is in term 2 of Year 2; Echo is in term 2 of Year 1. Things have been going quite well this year overall - once we got the routine going. That said - I made a minor change this term....
I decided to try having Friday being a "Family Studies" day.... instead of having a Rotation of things like Hymn Study and Folk Songs, and Drawing, etc.... (that often seemed to never happen) - these will now happen on Friday.
Here is a breakdown of our new Fridays! They will go roughly in this order.... but not always
- Scriptures (everyday)
- Memory Work (everyday)
- PhysEd (5BX or XBX)
- Hymn Study
- Composer Study (will probably try to have this playing in the background mostly)
- Picture Study
- Mapping
- Timeline
- German Songs
- ASL Songs
- Folk Songs
- Drawing
- Poetry
- Math Lesson (usually a game)
- Leftover Readings from the AO Week (or a Free Reading)
- Nature Study
I think this is going to work out well. That said - we haven't done Nature Study yet... (sigh). But most of the rest was done - and I hope to get things going smoothly by having things prepared the day before.
Oh, one other change I made - I've taken our scripture memory box - found out which scriptures Delta and Echo knew well... and made scripture cards in different colours for each child. Doing it together as a family wasn't working for Foxtrot - and sometimes Delta and Echo didn't know them either. This seems to work better so far.
As for the rest of the week - here is the basic plan we use... I do mostly encourage them to do it in order (because I have it setup to try to vary items - and they are more likely to miss things if they do it out of order.) They have a list of the AO (and modifications) Readings for the week, and choose when to do them. This is working out great - I remember our first year trying AO I had things assigned on certain days - and we ended up being on Week 12 of some book, Week 9 of another, etc... it got confusing. But by just having times scheduled to read from the list, with the rule that they must finish the readings from one week before starting the next - well, it is so simple! And as a bonus - I get to find out which books they love and which ones they really don't....
- Scriptures
- Memory Work
- PhysEd (5BX or XBX)
- Copywork (& Dictation)
- Readings from List
- Foreign Language (German one day, ASL the next...)
- Readings from List
- Math
- Free Reading
So - what are we up to?
Delta
- Enjoying learning about the Crusades and Richard the Lion Heart. He can't wait to start Robin Hood next term.
- Doing great with RightStart Math.
- Writing quite neatly with Joined Italic. Moving towards no longer using a middle line, and then copying from another book (no model)
- Loving Tree in the Trail
- Was thrilled that Understood Betsy is done. (He never liked that book....)
- Wants to draw a map of Tree in the Trail (although the other week he said of the Crusades.....)
Echo
- Discovered that Moroni hid the plates close to the time that the Romans left Britain. (You have to love timeline books!)
- Enjoying RightStart Math level C
- Doing much better at writing with Italic. She was thrilled to be moved to using the Copywork Jar. She does still sometimes write letters/numbers backwards still (something she has always struggle with more than the other kids.)
- Loves Paddle to the Sea
Foxtrot
- Is on Lesson 90 in "Teach your Child to read in 100 Easy Lessons". She is also reading books on her own to herself.
- LOVES RightStart Math Level A
- We are starting "Drawing with Children"... and I did the evaluation exercises to see where to start - she is firmly in Level 2! Wow!
- Is happy to have her own Scripture to learn
- Enjoys Picture Study - wishes she had her own "Masterpieces" Album. (That is something they get when they start Year 1 - as a special thing....)
Golf
- Loves to play with Tally Sticks and Tiles while I do math with Foxtrot.
- Loves drawing and colouring (and is definitely Right Handed)
Well - not sure how interesting this is - but that is what is going on here!
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