For the entire duration of it we are planning to do, for the most part, revision, which will probably make weekly entries very repetitive and a bit pointless, so I'm going to summarise our forthcoming activities in this one post and do a summary of what Oliver has learned this year and our plans for the next, when his academic year is done and dusted.
READING: Oliver is about to finish Stage 5, and then I'm planning to get him to read the 7 books of the last one, Stage 6 ( Phonics, Songbirds ), even if this one learning element eats into his summer holidays a bit. The idea is that the main letter combo 'basics' are covered through reading and regularly going over his reading cards ( with all the new words) so that the next year he can start reading books he choses for himself in the library. He reads everything in view at the moment, and I think he will love it, we'll see.
MATH: we will continue working with 1 and two digit numbers , subtraction and addition, both using fingers and doing mental calculations.
WRITING: Oliver will continue to do his spellings, the 2-weekly lists of 20 popular English words, quite simple at this stage, doing the weekly one page 'story writing' or a dictation, trying to use the words he is learning how to spell. We will also try to to go over the things he gets confused about, e.g writing some capital letters or confusing the usage or letter and phonic in his writing and continue working on his calligraphy.
RUSSIAN: By far the most problematic aspect of the whole thing, without practice the 3 times weekly Russian lessons, don't seem to be heading anywhere soon, but there is still a little bit of progress, and better understanding, so we are hoping that it will help his 'dormant' language and perhaps in some way, add to the development of his cognitive skills in some marginal way, at least.
SOCIAL: This term is quite relaxed, so on top of our usual groups and playdates, we are booking numerous HE group activities: Legoland yesterday, HE kids picnic by the pool in the park tomorrow, HE group trip to Kidzania next month to mention just a few.
Pictures and videos of the social activities ( or , at least my boys participating in those activities) are on my INSTAGRAM as are the occasional reading and writing assessments, link below.
https://www.instagram.com/almost_science/
