This picture depicts the calm serenity that our home schooling experience is...in my day dreams! LOL
It's that time of year again! Take down the kiddie pool, hang up the swim pants,dust off your lesson planner and get ready to dive into home school!
Yesterday I took the kids to our local super market. I bought them beach balls, soft balls, bouncy balls, ring toss, etc. All "outside" toys which were slashed down on super, end-of-summer sale. Some as cheap as 25 cents!
I told the boys they could open up and play with their new new outside-inside toys as soon as they helped me straighten and organize the play/home school room.
Yes, yes, in the words of Ralphy from A Christmas Story.....A little bribe never hurts :)
Plus we are well stocked on fun toys to play with when the impending rainy days if Autumn have us stuck in the house!
So we washed down chalk boards, dusted off books, put puzzles back together, organized our beeswax collection, and threw away broken crayons.
An "home school" basket for Little Sprite Boy, cuurently 2 1/2 years old. It has building blocks, put-together pieces, board books and a knitted bunny family. This helps keep him busy while I instruct the older children.
On to our schedule......
Mondays- Circle Time, Main Lesson, and Art
Tuesdays - Circle Time, Science and Work Sheets
Fridays - Circle Time, Main Lesson and Rotating Speciality
This year some of the subjects we'll be covering.....
Kinder
Main Lesson - Bible Stories, Folk Tales, Nature Tales, Piano
Art - Coloring, water color painting, braiding, beeswax molding
Science - Cooking and Housekeeping Skills
Rotating Specialty - Puzzles and Mazes
4th Grade
Main Lesson - Math (concentration on fractions), Norse Mythology using the Kalevala, Grammar, Composition Writing
Art - Cross Stitching, Celtic Knot Drawing, Piano, Learning the Lap Harp
Science - Local Geography, Comparative Study of Man and Animal, Cooking, and Hands on Experiments
Rotating Specialty - Local History (including our Ward history and some family history) and Creating a Hero Binder*
* A Hero Binder is a simple notebook with clear insert sheets. Every month Nykki will choose a man (starting with Jesus and then Papa for the first two months, then Nykki can choose the rest). He will create a page or two profile for each man including pictures, a biography, quotes and information on what makes the man a hero. (Girls can do this too by creating a Titus 2 Mentor Binder of the women they emulate)
Circle Time
Morning Verse:
The sun with loving light
makes bright for me each day
my sole with spirit-power
gives strength unto my limbs
in sunlight shining clear
I revere
Oh Heavenly Parents
the strength of human kind
which thou so graciously hath planted in my soul
that I with all my might
may love to work and learn
from Thee stream strength and light
to Thee rise love and thanks
After our verse we will act out a nature poem based on the season. We will then work on Bible study and scripture memorization using this program and finally end by singing a hymn and working on memorizing it.
We're looking forward to another amazing home school year!
