Sunday, July 25, 2010

It's been a while......

Wow it's been a while since I posted! I've been so busy with back to school shopping and making sure we have everything we need at the last minute.

School for us starts in exactly one month. Sweetheart is excited, and she's going to get even more excited on the first day of school. We've signed up for a local homeschool PE class done through the city, and it happen to have it's first meeting on our first day of school {we were planning on a picnic at the park so this fits in perfectly}. And then the next day, we're going to the coolest place in town to start the school year - The KIDDIE PARK! It's a lovely vintage kiddie park we have here in town with rides dating back as far as 1918, and a local tradition to take your kids. I scored half price endless ride bands on Groupon, so it's actually on coming out to about $8 to take her, including bus fare to get there.Then Friday we're taking a Field Trip to see a Dinosaur exhibit at a local museum that is done by Dinosaur George!

Then we'll start actual lessons the following week - our week looks like this:

Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday:
Reading - Saint of the Day and Read-aloud within our Yearly Reading Theme {this year it's Thornton Burgess and related works including Beatrix Potter}
Phonics - CHC Little Stories for Little Folks and Letters for Little Folks
Math - Little Folks Number Practice or MCP Math K depending on day
Religion - God's Love Story {CHC} or Who Am I? Depending on day

Wednesday:
Reading - Saint of the Day and Read-aloud within theme
Religion - Saint of the week {we're doing two a week, relating to the letters of the week in Little Folks Letter Practice}
PE - Homeschool PE for 1.5 hours
Arts & Crafts