So here it is, the first day of 2009. Isn't it lovely? I took some time to really evaluate where Melissa's at this year so far, almost halfway through the "school year" and am now setting some loose framework in what I'd like to do with our remaining time before we start next school year in September (this year it looks like we won't get much of a summer break)
I'm feeling pretty good about the fresh start that I have now, I have had time to reflect the last few days that I've been injured (I hurt my hip while walking the puppy in our back yard, I found a hole lol) and I realized that while we haven't made as much progress as I would have liked, we did make some progress so far this year. No, we aren't as far in our math as I hoped we'd be, and we have to restart our reading and LA program because Melissa lost it thanks to a long run of the flu in our home, but that's ok in my eyes. I'll get us there, it just may mean that we carry into the summer and don't get a "spring break" this year and we may have a few weekends. I doubt Melissa will object to this anyway, she was asking me if she could do lessons on Christmas morning before she asked when they would get to open presents LOL So that's where we are at now, its literally a fresh start for me with lessons. I am almost done creating a really fun study on the food pyramid and the food groups, which will be the majority of our science study the rest of the year (at least through the winter) We're going to expand it beyond just talking about what good foods and bad foods are and what food group things are in, we're also going to include fitness and cooking and even learn about some of the exotic foods that we don't eat much and where they come from (as well as where our regular foods come from, how they grow, and how they go from nature to kitchen) Its a huge study, but I'm really looking forward to it. While we do our basic food pyramid learning, we're going to touch on the names of the continents and oceans and learn where on a world map they are. Nothing too rigorous, but its something they'll need to know for when we delve further into our health study. When we finish that, we'll pick up one of the girls' favorite books from our core, its a Usborne book called "Things People Do" I'm sure you've seen it before, its a wonderful picture book about the different jobs and what the people do in those jobs. The girls got a real kick out of it, so we're going to do a study of it again and focus on one 2 page spread a week, and do a lapbook on the book (I have a feeling it will end up as big as the lapbook a friend of mine did with her 7yr old on "Finding Nemo" if not bigger LOL)
So, I need to learn how to add pics to my blog posts, because I'll have pics soon probably to share of our lapbooks as we do them.
1 comment:
Oh, that sounds like a great plan Cat! We've not done a study of the food pyramid and all related things.
One of the things I love about homeschooling is that you can go at your child's pace. So having to start over in the reading is okay. Melissa doesn't have to be laft behind by her calssmates and put in a remedial group just because everyone was sick and she forgot things.
Another idea for that lapbook (if it gets really big) is to put the lapbook pieces on sheets of cardstock into a binder/notebook instead. Then it can be as huge as you want.
Ooo, yet another idea would be to do a series of lapbooks. Like one on cooking, one on each food group, one on fitness, etc.
But we like the really big lapbooks too! Let me know if you need help getting started!
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