Posted in School Year Planning Ideas

Last night, Chantelle and I were thinking of ideas to make our second homeschool year enjoyable. Here is what we came up with.

I mentioned to her that I would like her to start making one meal a week, her choice of the meal. She would pick out a recipe from my many books, make out the shopping list and then procede to cook it. I will take a picture of her cooking it as well as the final result. She will then, after we have eaten the meal, write out the recipe on a nice piece of paper, decorate it if desired, place the 2 pictures on the back side of it and place it in a page protector in a binder. At the end of the school year, we will take the pages to Staples and have it bound for her.

Following something like the recipe book, we will make a cross stitch book. She will pick out a pattern from my many books (I'll pick out the first few so I can teach her), add the pattern to a page protector, a picture of her doing the project anda picture of the final piece. I will then have her write up a little description of the project and what she thought of it. Again, at the end of the school year we will have the pages bound into a book for her to keep.

Another thing she wanted to do was daily scripture memorization. I found this system from Simply Charlotte Mason that I liked.

http://simplycharlottemason.com/progress/index.php/cm-time-savers/scripture-memory-system

I printed out their list of verses and I also have a few more lists that I got from various resources. I like this system, but from reading it, there are 3 verses to memorize a day. Some are very long and some are short. I am thinking of changing it so that we do one verse a day. The longer verses we will take many days to do, such as the Ten Commandments. I would like Chantelle to write out her daily verse and decorate the page and place it in a page protector in a binder once she has it memorized. That way she can go back and reread the passages to "test" herself to see if she still remembers it.