Monday, October 05, 2009
well, we're close on hours at least
So, every month our OHVA teacher sends us a calendar with the rough guidelines for weekly hours to log for our students in K and 1st grade. It also has diagnostic testing listed on it and stuff like that, so there's more than just hours guidelines listed. It has a spot to the side to list supplemental attendance if we want, and a couple ideas under it for some fun supplemental activities to do with our children. I print this calendar off EVERY month for the hours guidelines so I can see where we are. Well, since Scott was on vacation last week we didn't do all our schoolwork, so we've got a bit of making up to do this week and next week. Lydia's fine, she's 35 hours over the guideline (she loves schoolwork and wants to do extra assignments, it'll even out at the end of the school year probably) so I'm not worried about her not meeting guidelines. But Melissa, she's 10hrs short after last week. She usually stays right at guideline, so all that missed time is from last week. Guess the next couple weeks I'll be adding one extra assignment in for her to play "catch up" in hours, we're short in music and science so those will be the areas we add in extra for sure.
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I suggest two things to count twoards those hours:
Music - bring her to Primary at church for a half hour of singing time. Technically the next 3 weeks they are practicing for the sacrament presentation the'll do late Oct., so she'll get 2 hours of singing practice!
Science - do some nature studies outside (fall is here - what can she see and draw and collect? what bugs and birds can she find? what are the birds doing?)
Also for science - do a trip to any of the following:
Dawes Arboretum 's awesome nature center in the basement of the main building - very cool! and Free!
The Zoo - lots to learn and enjoy.
You sound like you are doing great, I'm so proud of you!
Tristan, playing computer games counts as technology with OHVA, so this week they will have an extra hour of computer time (I limit it to 2 one hour blocks a week normally, adding a third this week won't kill us) and we're a couple weeks behind in science because I kinda put off an experiment that I didn't really want to do, we did that experiment today. So I am going to be doing science each day this week. That gets me 6 hours this week, and I might add in an extra history lesson and some extra lang. arts too by just reading to the girls more (that's pretty much all lang. arts is right now, we read a story then do an activity based on the story and the story is read 2 or 3 days in a row, I usually do all the lessons for one story at one time to just get it over with)
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