Another week is staring us in the face! Are you ready?
I don’t guess I’m ever as ready as I would like to be, but I have some fun ideas and the week is upon me! Each day, I do one hour one-on-one time with my fourth grader and we work on his public speaking, multiplication and a general review in each subject of what he is learning. I want to make sure he is retaining everything and not just getting through the material.
Monday – I’m not going to do the Bright Beginnings curriculum with my preschoolers because I have some bananas that are just begging to be made into banana chocolate chip bread! It will be a math lesson and life lesson with a little fun mixed in as well. We’ll do our calendar time and verse memorization before-hand with some Piano for Preschoolers afterward. Chore time will be the refrigerator and pantry. My fourth grader will be doing his ACE PACEs with an emphasis on memorizing multiplication tables.
Tuesday – The story of Baby Moses in the Bright Beginnings (BB) curriculum for preschool with, of course, a basket activity. We’ll also do a page from Considering God’s Creation for science. Art class for my fourth grader along with multiplication drills.
Wednesday – The burning bush in BB with corresponding activity, Piano for Preschoolers, some introduction to cursive writing worksheets. My fourth grader will be doing a typing class that is on our computer – he sees me *blogging* and wants to start a blog of his own! His typing is slower than hunt-and-peck, so I’m taking the opportunity to teach him a skill he desperately needs for adulthood anyway!
Thursday – Gym class and piano class take up quite a bit of the day each Thursday. I’ll wake up my fourth grader a little earlier to get his work done ahead of time. Then we drive to a friends house for a gym class that I teach with my son and three of his friends. We’ve been going over soccer for several weeks now and we were going to do basketball, but ours was left behind at the park one day, so I need to come up with another sport that I feel comfortable teaching them. We all eat lunch together and then settle in for a 45 minute drive to piano lesson. Get home in time for naps and finishing up fourth grade work. Our midweek church service is on Thursday’s, so the rest of the evening is spent gearing up for church.
Friday – My fourth grader does enough schoolwork throughout the week that we can take Friday’s off for the most part. We’re near to being done so he sometimes likes to work extra in order to get done and start a *break* of sorts. We still learn, just not through the curriculum. This Friday, we have a visit scheduled with one of the sweetest elderly ladies from our church. Friday afternoons are always street preaching and then a church service at the nursing home. Sometimes, I like to go visit one of the widows from the church instead of the nursing home. One of my highest priorities in my home schooling efforts is for my children to learn how to reach out to others and be a blessing and our Friday activities have a part in attaining those goals.
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