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By the Book
6.10.2008
Summer School Begins!
My dear daughter is driving me nuts trying to get me to start school early (ever since I received her Saxon Math 1 materials in the mail)!!! So, yesterday we started a short summer school session. We are going to be doing some animal study, working in her Kumon books (we're working on the one with the numbers from 1 to 70 right now), and using the Bible curriculum. We'll use Monday, Wednesday, and Friday as school days.
We are using the 1st grade Bible LIFEPAC from Alpha Omega. Yesterday was our first lesson, but what I've seen so far is really nice. The worktext approach is perfect for K. We will just do that at whatever pace seems to keep her satisfied until we're getting ready to start the official school year. If we have to get the 2nd grade box early, that's what we'll do.
We also started studying lemurs today. We read about them and filled out half of a form that I made for our animal study. It has a place to write in the name of the animal, its habitat, what it eats, what type of animal it is (i.e. mammal, bird, reptile, etc.), and other facts that K or H might find interesting. After we did that, they each colored a picture of a lemur that we found on Enchanted Learning. We will be adding these pages to some of the the other pages in K's Animal Science Book.
Come August, we will be getting a little more in depth into our animal study. K wants to learn about the different habitats, so I did some research and found some Biome Worksheets (also on Enchanted Learning's website). We'll use these, along with a world map, to learn about the habitats for a couple days, then we'll spend the next few weeks learning about different kinds of animals that live in that habitat. I hope to spend 30 weeks on animal study, six of which will be about different habitats.
Hopefully, the summer school will make my daughter happy enough to allow me to finish our plans for our other subjects!
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