My goal for this year is combining 4th and 5th grade for my child since we got a little behind, so we will be spending 5 months doing each grade this year. This will leave her 2 months off during summer, and guess what? It's totally fine! Why? Because I am in charge for once, we dumped the private home school we were using. I hated having to be accountable to someone else over what to teach and how many pages to do. The book that was being used had a lot of out dated and useless pages that were repetitious in an unhelpful way. I mean having my daughter use an adjective on 50 pages over and over isn't learning in my book, especially once it has been mastered. Now we can cover the material I feel matters and that helps her to actually learn! I still have to find a science and social studies curriculum, but so far I have an idea for science kiwibop postcards seem pretty cool! And since a lot of social studies curriculum for 4th grade is learning about geography and the state the child lives in I was considering Little Passports.
A friend of mine is going to use time4learning which is $20 a month, for her daughter. I looked into it and was pleasantly surprised at what was offered. But since I already invested in 4th grade, I won't be able to try it out until February when she starts 5th grade. It offers online learning, lesson plans, printables, and games. You are the teacher and can pick and choose like an educational buffet!
For Preschool I am going to use a lot of dollar store items mainly flash cards which I have laminated to help my toddler learn shapes, numbers, and colors. I am into laminating (of course) so I will make more file folder learning activities (check out the one I made below).I will also buy items to help reinforce this learning process. I am also looking into making a circle time board. I love the concept of circle time (Did I mention I used to be a Preschool and Toddler Teacher?). The only issue is getting little ones into the routine, and having them on a schedule, because let me tell you I am not an organized person! I go with the flow and have to make too many changes to a schedule since we have a lot that goes on in our life. I do know having a routine is important, so my goal is to have "school" early on the days we are home and then at 1pm the days we need to go and do errands etc.
I have a lot of field trip ideas to help reinforce what will be taught this year so I am really stoked, and excited for my kids! This is how it is looking so far for my curriculum, this isn't all of it, but just to give an idea:
So that's it! What are your plans for the school year? What kind of curriculum are you going to use? :)
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