I tried something fun this year for the first day of school. I put all our subjects in a paper bag on slips of paper, along with some fun things like, go play a game of PIG, play a game of Swamp Sum, and go do a craft. The kids got to take turns pulling a subject out of the bag. And we proceeded to do school that way. We started our unit on Bach. Played sum swamp with the new number dice I bought (these go up to the number 12 instead of just 1-6), wrote in our journals, started our new curriculum for Science (Biology for the Christian Kid, and accomplished a math lesson. I also am doing a Homonymn a day with them this year and trying to encorporate that into their writing at least once during the week. They had so much fun with the first day of school they were disappointed that we were not doing the same thing on Wednesday.
It is now week three of school, and I can say that I absolutely LOVE our history curriculum, The Mystery of History. It is a biblical chronological study of history. They kids and I are learning so much of God's word and the world through it. I am still doing Switched on Schoolhouse for LA and Math. I have tweaked the schedule a bit to have the kids be able to do some independent work on Monday and Wednesday afternoons as I have extra kids on those days.
No comments:
Post a Comment