Here is a look at our school plans for 2011-2012 - only time will tell if it works better in reality than on paper, or if it will need a revamp!
Main Resources:
Bible:
The Child's Story Bible
Telling God's Story Curriculum
French
Language Arts
Phonics:
The Writing Road To Reading
The Reading Lesson
First Language Lessons
Maths:
MEP
History/Geography
The Story of the world 1
Activity Book
Encylopedia World History
Science
Kingfisher Encyclopedia Of Animals
Kingfisher 1st Human Body Encyclopedia
Growing Up Green
Keeping A Nature Journal
Music/Art
Classics For Kids
Drawing on the right side of the brain
Outside Activities
Girls Friendly Society
Swimming
Brownies
Rainbows
Locally organised nature walks & activities
Knitting Club
Monday
Read from The Child's Story Bible
Prayer, Hymn & Memory Work (includes Bible, Lang Arts, Maths, Hist & Geog, Science, French & General topics)
Language Arts:
First Language Lessons
The Writing Road to Reading for penmanship, phonics & spelling - will see how this goes, is new to me & very teacher intensive to understand & read through all the book! I will see how this pans out...
The Reading Lesson
Daily Reader
Independent 'Fun' reading
Maths
MEP lesson
SOTW
Read the story, work on the colouring page. Narration.
Tuesday
Read from The Child's Story Bible
Prayer, Hymn & Memory Work
Language Arts:
First Language Lessons
The Writing Road to Reading for penmanship, phonics & spelling
The Reading Lesson
Daily Reader
Independent 'Fun' reading
Maths
MEP lesson
SOTW
Read the story. Narration. Mapwork.
Wednesday
Read from The Child's Story Bible
Prayer, Hymn & Memory Work
Language Arts:
First Language Lessons
The Writing Road to Reading for penmanship, phonics & spelling
The Reading Lesson
Daily Reader
Independent 'Fun' reading
Maths
MEP lesson
SOTW
Read from history encyclopedia . Look at related library books
Complete this weeks lapbook booklet
Thursday
Read from The Child's Story Bible
Prayer, Hymn & Memory Work
Language Arts:
First Language Lessons
The Writing Road to Reading for penmanship, phonics & spelling
The Reading Lesson
Daily Reader
Independent 'Fun' reading
Maths
MEP lesson
Science:
We are working as follows:
Animals approx 20 weeks
Human Body approx 10 weeks
Plants approx 6 weeks
At the moment we are working from our animals topic.
We read from the encylopedia about our chosen animal, the girls narrate, draw a picture & make a notebook page.
Then we spend time on further reading. So far this has been a very rich topic for us. With the help of our cat(!) we have had a mouse to observe, and an extremely handsome dragonfly. We have looked at butterflies & ladybirds. The cat is on our list too : )
Thursday afternoons are devoted to our Afternoon Teas
We usually drink strawberry tea & eat goodies baked by the girls. We either listen to Classics For Kids, work on our drawing, or celebrate a festival (such as Michaelmas) or enjoy a nature celebration (such as the harvest moon)
Friday
Read from The Child's Story Bible
Prayer, Hymn & Memory Work
Language Arts:
spelling
Daily Reader
Independent 'Fun' reading
Our Craft time
I always have something planned - often from our SOTW activity guide.
Nature Study
We take a nature walk & make an entry into our nature journals.
Sunday
A weekly reading & activity from God's Story
My year is all planned out. I am not sure how I will fare with The Writing Road To Reading - I am feeling rather overwhelmed by it right now & may go back to spelling workout. It just is so appealing - to have such a thorough spelling course. We shall see.
I spend time every couple of months sitting down & planning out the 'lovely' things - festivals & nature studies etc etc & weekly I plan out our lessons in detail.
