Hard to believe I ignored this blog for 6 months.
We are doing our own version of classical education at home. Our schedule looks like this:
Mon and Wed:
Spelling, Grammar, Writing, Spelling, Math, History (Story of the World), Art
Tues and Thurs:
Spelling, Grammar, Writing, Spelling. Math, Science
Fridays:
Outings, experiments, Story of the World activities, crafts, documentaries
We are also learning Japanese with Mango languages (so fun!) and reading our library books every week. Once a week, usually Sunday, we go to the library and get one of each: a history book, a science book, a biography, a how to book, an art or music book, a book of poetry and a story book. She can also get whatever else she would like to get, that is the minimum.
To be precise we are currently doing the following this week:
Science - we learn about one animal a week from The Kingfisher Animal Encyclopedia, in depth. This week we are doing Pandas and we have 2 documentaries on pandas and several books. Also, we draw one bird a week from our bird book. I am concentrating on birds we see locally.
History - we have just started "Story of the World". This week we will read about early man and we have some additional books.
Spelling/Grammar - we have a workbook for each
Reading - I read to her at least an hour a day and she narrates back what I've read.
Poetry - I read a poem to her daily and she copies a portion of it for her handwriting exercise
Math - We are working through a workbook.
Biography - I am reading a biography of Elizabeth I to her daily.
Art - We have a library book on art we will read this week
Crafts - She wanted to work on a "how to draw" book this week.
I will post in more detail each day, I hope. :)
I am hoping to order Sing School Latin this week, as I really want to start teaching Latin. However we are enjoying Japanese so much and I am not sure if it will muddy the water to learn two languages at the same time.
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