So a huge point of this blog is that I would like to start supporting other homeschooling families with weekly plans. When we decided to home school, I like many others, thought "I can't do this. I don't know how to teach ...... (insert what ever grade your kids are)" But, when push came to shove homeschooling was the best option for our boys. I am a teacher and I have taught everything from 4th, 5th, 6th grade elementary students, 6th, 7th and 8th grade science, middle school language arts, high school and collage aged science field schools and even adult science education expeditions. I finally developed the self confidence to realize that I could teach my own children what they needed to know.
What I learned right off the bat was that I need to apply some of the things I do for my science students. I needed clear goals and objectives, routines that work, an organizational structure, and I needed to make sure that the lessons were engaging and meaningful for my kids.
We have now been teaching our boys since September and I feel like I have worked out many of the kinks in writing the lesson plans each week. I already write them all out, because my husband must do much of the teaching in the morning and then I finish up and do all of the reading in the evening. These lessons are geared towards meaningful experiential learning for kids age 4-7, and I do gear them to how my kids learn. One is a visual learner and the other is a hands on learner. I provide opportunities for each of them to be successful and challenged each day.
So with no further ado, I present to you my first published week of home school lessons. The are free (for now.) And all I ask is that you choose to follow this blog, or my Teachers Pay Teachers site, and that you provide feedback. What did you like, what did not work for your kids? What do you wish I had included, what totally flopped and why? Do you have questions for me? If so, please post a comment to this post. Ideally, I will be able to create something to empower other people to believe in their ability to stretch their kids minds.
Go to this link to get the whole thing:
Date: April 1-5 Theme: Spring
Letter: Long Vowels Number: Diving things into equal parts
Reading Focus: Characters
Vocabulary: Balance, Scale, Weight, Long Vowel, Divide, Equal
Field Trip: Personal Choice
Objectives:
1. Know what long vowel sounds are, and the sounds they make and why
2. Learn what a scale and balance do, how to build one that works, and what makes it work
3. Use measurement to make food and use division to split food into equal parts
4. Sort laundry by color/fabric and compare the size of each pile
5. Practice reading to parent or sibling
6. Visualize and describe characters in a chapter book of choice
7. Participate in physical exercise daily while using games to enforce learning objectives
8. Keep up with their journals to record major events, learning and pictures of their lives.
Credits:
Vowel Poster Pictures
Things to Print For the Week:
Fine Motor Skills: Use this web page: http://dailycoloringpages.com/alphabet-letters-to-print/challenging-animal-alphabet-letters-to-print/ to print off vowel pictures. Have students color the things in the letter that have a long sound a different color from words with a short sound. Then write the long vowel sounds off to the side.
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