Our homeschool curriculum – The Fitnessista

Sharing extra about P’s homeschool curriculum and the way we construction our days. For extra about why we decided to homeschool, check out this post.

Hello pals! How are you? I hope that you simply’re having a beautiful morning. I’ve a few shopper calls at present, homeschool enjoyable, and we’re going to take a day hike. What are you as much as?

For at present’s submit, I wished to speak extra about how we construction our days now that we’re in week 3 of homeschooling. It’s value mentioning right here that each day is completely different and these are simply bins we test every day. The fantastic thing about homeschool is that it’s versatile. It takes far much less time than conventional faculty, and you’ve got the liberty to pause, change issues, or transfer issues round, relying on what’s occurring.

It’s additionally value mentioning right here that I’m NOT an skilled and have minimal expertise on this space. I’m the newb of the newbies and am significantly figuring this out as we go. I’m so so grateful that there are homeschool specialists on the market and pals who’ve provided with assist and recommendation; I’ll take all the guidelines I can get!

I’m additionally SO grateful to Brittany from A Healthy Slice of Life who jumped in, hopped on the telephone with me once I despatched her a brilliant lengthy voice message, talked me off the ledge, and helped me determine a gameplan. Take a look at her weblog for homeschool data, recipes, journey, and life-style – she is superb.

Though I’m nonetheless figuring this out, I wished to share this submit for my pals on the market who’re contemplating homeschool, however are tremendous intimidated, simply as I used to be. I believed I’d need to be a *trainer* to be good at this. You don’t have to have a instructing background. You simply want to seek out the correct curriculum match (and know you’ll be able to change at any time), have a bit endurance and adaptability, and proceed to point out love and endurance to your kiddo. <3

Our homeschool curriculum and the way we construction our days

For probably the most half, right here’s how the day goes:

We get up and take Liv to highschool. We come residence, P has breakfast, I give her a bit little bit of chill time the place she will be able to play with toys, puzzles, construct issues, and many others. (that is the place I’ll compensate for a number of emails or put out work fires) and we begin *faculty* at 9. I sit on the desk along with her and eat my breakfast as we work collectively.

Virtually the entire curriculum we’re utilizing is plug and play, which implies you open the e book, learn the lesson, reply the questions, and transfer on. (Virtually all the pieces beneath was beneficial by Brittany)

Math- 20-Half-hour

We’re utilizing Nicole the Math Lady and Saxon Math. We used to make use of Saxon math on the women’ faculty (they’d switched to Math in Focus) and I knew I wished to return to Saxon. Nicole the Math Girl teaches every lesson (a couple of 10 minute video with a corny mind break, which P loves) after which you’ve got follow questions and 1-2 worksheets to finish. You enter the children’ solutions into the pc and it tracks their grades. Every lesson takes us about 2 days to finish.

Grammar -20-Half-hour

For grammar, we’re utilizing Masterbooks, which is a faith-based curriculum. It consists of image examine, memorization, punctuation, spelling, vocabulary, statement, poems, psalms, letters, and sensible software via artistic writing. We simply began however I really feel like she’s already discovered quite a bit from this textbook. She discovered cursive this 12 months, so she’s engaged on answering the questions in cursive.

Writing – 20-Half-hour

For writing, we’re doing the Fables, Myths and Fairy Tales writing lessons from IEW. It focuses on their Construction and Model methodology. Proper now, she’s engaged on studying fables, making key outlines, and narration (with the ability to retell the story utilizing her notes).

Studying – 20 minutes

I simply need her to get pleasure from studying for now, so we’re studying one thing super lighthearted and fun together. This e book has held the check of time and she or he LOVES it. We’re each usually cracking up sooner or later whereas studying about Fudge and his antics.

Science + Social Research / Geography – about 2x per week every

I’m nonetheless attempting to determine a plan for this, however not so nervous about it since we’re near summer season. For now, she’s engaged on memorizing the states, capitals, and with the ability to find them on a map.

For science, we do one mission every week. The primary week, we dissected owl pellets, matched the bones on the bone sorting charts, and talked about what we discovered. Week 2, she constructed an egg drop that we may drop from the balcony to the yard whereas holding the egg intact. We talked about velocity, gravity, momentum, motion and response. This week, she’s engaged on constructing a roller coaster.

Since we’re simply planning on homeschooling till fifth grade, I’m going to achieve out to Liv’s faculty to see what the expectations are for rising fifth graders for science and social research/geography so I can ensure we cowl the bases.

Mid-day:

We take Maisey for a stroll and have lunch collectively, compensate for a few chores, and determine a plan for the afternoon.

Afternoon:

Once we made this resolution, I instructed P that I beloved hanging out along with her however couldn’t be her cruise director all day. Within the afternoon earlier than we decide up Liv, I’ll have teaching calls, content material creation, modifying, podcast interviews, no matter I have to do work-wise for a few hours. I’ve additionally shifted my work schedule so I’m working extra on the weekends or when the Pilot is residence from airline coaching. (We began all of this when he left, so I’ve been solo parenting and figuring all of this out alongside the way in which.) Saturday is a piece blitz day now, and most of Sunday. In addition to P’s basketball sport, I’ll write/work/edit just about all day till dinner.

Within the afternoon, she’ll play with toys, work on one thing she enjoys (music, crocheting, capturing hoops, and many others), and if I’m caught up with work, I’ll take her to an indoor play place, to run errands, and typically I’ll give her some display time. Since she has basketball at night time and we’re chasing round with Liv to bop lessons, she often doesn’t get display time within the evenings.

The times shuffle round. Typically I’ll have an appointment within the morning, or educate a barre class, so we do faculty within the afternoon, and we’re additionally exploring among the Tucson homeschool actions. There are such a lot of nice ones right here: parkour, gymnastics, artwork, co-ops, horse classes, music — I’m excited to test them out!

In order that’s the way it’s going for now! I’m positive it is going to change over time and my plan is to get her caught up with math (she’s ending the third grade e book now and I”m hoping to get 4th grade and most of fifth achieved subsequent 12 months whereas she’s in 4th grade). The opposite books are 4th grade books, so we’ll simply transfer as much as fifth when she completes them.

Homeschool permits you to meet the child the place they’re. In the event that they’re progressing shortly in a topic, you’ll be able to progress together with them, or take extra time on sure topics in the event that they want it.

In case you have any concepts for enjoyable science initiatives or any social research and geography sources, I’d respect it a lot! Additionally, if there are any questions I can reply in future posts, please lmk!

xoxo

Gina