Sharing more about Homeschool’s curriculum and how we build our day. For more information on why we decided on Homeschool, see this post.
Hi friends! What are you doing? I hope you have a wonderful morning. I have some customer calls today, homeschool fun, and we will do an afternoon hike. What are you doing?
For today’s post, I wanted to talk more about how we structure our days now that we are in week 3 in domestic education. It is worth noting here that each day is different and these are just boxes we check every day. The beauty of Homeschool is that it is flexible. It takes much less time than traditional school and you have the freedom to stop, change things or move things around, depending on what’s going on.
It is also worth noting here that I am not a specialist and have little experience in this area. I am the beginner of the beginners and I understand this seriously as we go. I am so grateful that there are experts at home out there and friends who have offered with help and tips. I’ll get all the tips I can get!
I’m also so grateful Brittany from a healthy slice of life Who jumped, jumped the phone with me when I sent her a super long voice message, talked to me from my lip and helped me understand a game. Check out her blog for information, recipes, travel and lifestyle – it’s amazing.
Although I still understand it, I wanted to share this position for my friends out there who think about the house, but they are extremely intimidated, as I was. I thought I should be * teacher * to be good at it. You do not need to have a teaching background. You just need to find the proper adaptation of the curriculum (and know that you can change at any time), have a little patience and flexibility, and continue to show love and patience to your child. <3
Homeschool curriculum and how do we structure our days
For the most part, here is how the day is going:
We wake up and take LIV at school. We have a home, p she has breakfast, I give her some time of cooling where she can play with toys, puzzles, build things, etc. (this is where I will cover some emails or put on fires) and start * school * at 9. I sit on the table with her and we eat my breakfast.
Almost all of the curriculum we use is Plug and Play, which means that you open the book, you read the lesson, answer the questions and move on. (Almost everything below is recommended by Brittany)
Mathematics- 20-30 minutes
We use Nicole the Math Lady and Saxon Math. We used Saxon Math at the girls’ school (they had gone to mathematics at the center) and I knew I wanted to go back to Saxon. Nicole The Math Lady teaches every lesson (about 10 minutes video with a brain break, which loves p) and then you have practice and 1-2 worksheets to complete. Enter children’s answers to the computer and monitor their grades. Each lesson leads us about 2 days to complete.
Grammar -20-30 minutes
For grammar, we use Masterbooks, which is a curriculum based on faith. Includes images study, memorization, punctuation, spelling, vocabulary, observation, poems, psalms, letters and practical application through creative writing. We have just started, but I feel like he has already learned a lot of this manual. He learned Cursive this year, so he works to answer the questions in Cursive.
Writing-20-30 minutes
For writing, we do the Myths, myths and fairy tales Writing classes from IEW. It focuses on their structure and style method. She is currently working to read myths, making basic outlines and narratives (able to repeat the story using her notes).
Read – 20 minutes
I just want to enjoy reading for now, so we read something Super Lighthoid and Fun together. This book has done the test of time and adores it. We both often break at some point when reading for Fudge and its anxieties.
Science + Social Studies / Geography – about 2 times a week each
I’m still trying to figure out a plan for it, but I’m not worried so much since we are close to summer. For the time being, it is working to memorize states, capital and the ability to locate them on a map.
For science, we do a project every week. In the first week, we obtained the owl pellets, matched the bones in the bone classification charts and talked about what we found. Week 2, created a drop of eggs that we could fall from the balcony in the yard while keeping the egg intact. We talked about speed, gravity, momentum, action and reaction. This week is working Construction of a roller adventure.
Since we are simply planning domestic education by 5th grade, I will arrive at LIV school to see what are the expectations for the rise of 5th students for science and social studies/geography so that I can make sure we cover the bases.
Noon:
We take Maisey for a stroll and dine together, pretend to some jobs and count a plan for the afternoon.
Afternoon:
When we made this decision, I told P that I liked to hang with her, but she couldn’t be the cruise manager all day. In the afternoon before receiving LIV, I will have training calls, content creation, editing, podcast interviews, what I have to do for a few hours. I have also shifted my work schedule, so I work more on weekends or when the pilot is home for airlines. (We started all this when he left, so I was a solo parenting and counting all that off the road.) Saturday is a blitz day now and most of Sunday. In addition to the P basketball game, I will write/work/work almost all day until dinner.
In the afternoon, she will play with games, work on something she enjoys (music, crochet, shooting, etc.), and if I am trapped with the job, I will take her in an internal game to run things and sometimes I will give her the screen time. Since it has basketball at night and we hunt with LIV in dance lessons, it usually doesn’t take a screen time in the evenings.
The days stir around. Sometimes I will make an appointment in the morning or teach a Barre class, so we do the school in the afternoon and also explore some of the Tucson Homeschool activities. There are so many big ones here: Parkour, gymnastics, art, co-ops, horse lessons, music-I’m excited to check!
That’s why it’s happening now! I am sure it will change over time and my plan is to catch it with mathematics (the third grade book ends now and I hope to reach the 4th grade and most of the 5th next year while it is in the 4th grade).
Homeschool allows you to meet the child where they are. If they move on to a topic quickly, you can move on with them or spend more time on certain issues if they need it.
If you have any ideas for science entertainment projects or any social studies and geography resources, I would appreciate it so much! Also, if there are questions that I can answer in future posts, please LMK!
Xoxo
Tiger
