Tentative January Schedule

[Homestead Homemaker]

Input please?   

Monday - Geography
Week 1:  Home and surrounding area
Week 2:  State Capitol
Week 3:  Map Reading
Week 4:  Our State Neighbors

Tuesday - Science
Great Experiments Book
Numbers 99 - 101
Do and discuss why it happens.

Wednesday - History
Week 1:  Your Past
Week 2:  Family Past (parents and grandparents)
Week 3:  Extended Family Past and how you (we) fit in.
Week 4:  Our (self and family) impact in history.

Thursday - Literature
Book Great Myths and Legends
A story a week.  Read and discuss.

Friday - Library
Pick out three books
One for history
One for geography
One for pleasure
(More can be picked out, but this is a minimum.)

Along with the above, there is the required math and writing each day and Charlie has already shown initiative in wanting to write.  He does very well in math and I am ready to bump him up to the next level which would be adding and subtracting double digits.

I am also thinking along with history is to get him to start learning the presidents.  He knows the books of the Bible so I know he is capable of at the very least memorizing the presidents.

[WyattsWunch]

WTG, HH! 

[Homestead Homemaker]

Here is the finalized schedule.  I added in astronomy.

Homeschool Schedule:

Monday 10:00am
Geography
•   Indiana and Terre Haute map with push pins
•   Mark where we live, where we go to the doctor, library, etc.
•   Look at state capital and mark areas there including capital building, Riley, zoo, and friends and places we see and visit there.
•   Illinois and other state neighbors and capitals there along with places visited.
•   Make your own map to your favorite place to visit.

Tuesday 10:00am
Science/Biology
•   Great Science Experiments
•   How winter affects life in plants, animals, etc.
•   Feb, human biology will resume.  We will be doing winter planting and learning how to eat fresh in the winter.

Wednesday 10:00am
History
•   Personal history
•   Family history
•   Extended history
•   How historical events affect us
•   How we affect history

Thursday 10:00am
Literature
•   Great Myths and Legends
•   Classic novels
•   Read and discuss

Astronomy 8:00pm
•   Draw stars from same ground focal point on a weekly basis.
•   Rainy or cloudy days, discuss how star navigation works and the rotation of the planet and stars.  History of star navigation. 

Friday 1:00pm
•   Library Day

[mamacat]

 You have a an interesting Schedule!

Jake is working on Latin - Minimus it's really cute, but a good Latin starter
Rightstart Math -  Which I am really loving because he uses an abacus and and a math balance. He is taking great joy on teaching Mollie how to use them and play games with him.

We  are going through a Science encyclopedia from Usborne that he got for Christmas,

And we've been doing  a good bit of map work.

Big focus on his writing right now. He really dislikes writing, so we keep on plugging away at it. He is doing well with reading, and  I have to admit that diagramming sentences fro Calvin & Hobbes is way more fun than the sentences in the grammar book.


I am giving Mollie a lot of projects as well. I think she will be ready to  read a lot earlier than Jake was. She is so much like her big sister!