Please NOTE: this entry is put together just for me to quickly organise things in my head and keep a record of our home-schooling for sentimental reasons. It is also a draft to be edited on needs' bases for LEA, should they knock on our Homeschooling door, out of a blue. So, this is NOT an edited copy, and all kinds of typos, missing articles and grammatical / stylistic flaws is a given. If you are reading this because Google catapulted you here for his own googley reasons, welcome to my blog, I'm hoping that you will find it useful but not expecting a perfect flow of written word.
Week 4. What we are doing.
Firstly, we will not be continuing the spelling book. The exercises are not centred and concrete enough, and the work of last year , the regular words and story writing seems to be lost in these exercises that don't appear to gain much, occasional ones are not bad, but on the whole it's not best use of time. So , instead of spelling, I will need to go back to doing spelling lists and writing by sound. The writing by sound will no longer be stories, as they very difficult, but individual words with loads of encouragement, that seem to work better.
Other than that we will continue with our routine
4 pieces of English
-printables' workbook with copywork, exercises on spelling such as hearing out and sorting out words with 's' and 'ss' , or putting pieces of simple story in a right sequence.
-first language lessons , more on nouns , rhythms and comprehension
-the complete writer , 3 more weeks of alternating comprehension and copywork in more depth, using classic texts for both.
-spellings ( on a lookout for nice first spellers list on some coherent sequence)
2 Pieces of Maths
- printables' workbook , covering thing like shapes, comparing numbers finding 'unknown in an equation' ( quite difficult compared to the rest!) etc
- continuing with list of 10, just the practice of more difficult in-line calculations we'd developed up to last year.
Reading
We are up to Chapter 12 on 'Jolly Robbin' and will continue reading 1 chapter a day + cards' practice.
For 'mum read aloud' we are still on 'Chocolate Factory' about half way in, still going strong.
Social
Zoo and Hobbletown done , we do not currently have any HE events booked, BUT do have a great news. Weekly HE group for younger kids is starting. It has been launched last week and went down a storm! Fingers crossed it will continue. So this is how it goes
- Tuesday ; HE Gymnastics
-Wednesday HE social group
-Thursday or Friday meet up with non HE friends for a bike ride.
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