Over the weekend, I took a few minutes to figure out where we are in Jojo's lessons and to see how many days are left in the semester. Well, there are 19 days left of the first semester (this is including today) and we aren't too far off course in lessons for her. I wrote out how many lessons we have left in each subject to get to 50%, so I have a goal but I'm not going to get upset if I fall short in any subject. Here's the list so I can keep accountable, then I'll give a few notes on this so you can see what the big picture is.
Phonics- 25 lessons
Language Skills- 29 lessons
Literature & Comprehension- 54 lessons
History- 24 lessons
And then there is 10 lessons left in social studies to reach 100% completion.
At first I kind of freaked over the number of lessons compared to days, but I'm not worried for a reason. Phonics, the next 15 lessons we're doing are all reviewing and mastering short vowel sounds, so I should be able to condense those into 5-8 days instead of taking 15 to do it. Lit. & comp. is scheduled to spend 3 days at a time reading a story and doing activities, but typically we read the story and then pick from the 3 days of activities to do the ones we are most interested in and do some review questions from all 3 days because Jojo will NOT stand for me re-reading a story 3 days in a row. So we do 3 or 4 lessons a day in this subject typically (there are "your choice" days included randomly that allow you to play catch-up if you need it on a story). History, even if we don't hit all 24 lessons left to make 50% it is only 2 days a week so I can just pick up a third day weekly if we want or need to (or even more days, for that matter). Language skills is similar to Li. & comp. where we will do multiple lessons at a time because it just annoys the two of us too much to spend more than 1 day at a time right now on a poem or the stuff it covers (who needs to spend 3 days working on a page in the "All About Me" book anyway? honestly!)
We're doing pretty good on logged attendance hours too, only about 4 hours "behind" at this point with all the sickness I've had to deal with last month (before it started she was a good bit ahead, with having done almost all of her math K)
Math is the one subject you probably noticed that I didn't mention at all yet. Well, there is a reason for that. Jojo has FINISHED math+ blue (that's the grade K math) and her math+ green (1st grade mat) will be delivered this morning. In fact it will likely be here in the next 1-2 hours with how UPS runs deliveries to me (I get a lot of UPS stuff sometimes with a big family and my taking college classes online here and there). I plan to get her doing Study Island or Reading Eggs this morning once UPS comes so that I can spend an hour or two snuggling this adorable sleeping baby boy and looking through the new curriculum to get familiar with it. She will then start it this afternoon once I've gotten a good feel for it. Nope, not worried about her math progress, as she had already hit 100% in her math and is now working on the next grade level up.
Oh, and later if I get a chance and I remember, I'll have to put up the pictures I took of the girls ice skating on Friday. OHVA sponsored a skating event at the local ice arena so I decided to pick them up early from school so they could join us. Missa discovered that she loves to ice skate and her sisters decided they aren't too keen on it. I'm hoping that we can swing paying for Missa to take lessons as her Christmas gift, but I have to see what we have left after we buy the other kids' 2 gifts each and the rest of the big group gift.
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