Tuesday, September 13, 2022

Homeschooling Phase 5.0 - Year 3 (ideas)

This bulleted list is a typed-out version of my page of brainstorming for the 2022-2023 homeschooling year.  I mostly wanted a digital record (since it's hard to look back and find the pages I want in a notebook) so that a few months into the year, I can see if we're on track and want to add or remove.

Subject Ideas
  • Littles - 101 Things to Do book, Blossom and Root curriculum?, Family Math, 1 recipe/week, Wee Sing songs
  • Math - EP offline workbook, IXL, Family Math (1 activity/week)
  • Bible - Torchlighters, Lessons from the Land (Appian Media), Long Story Short, Leviticus book, Not Consumed, 14:6 The Way Bible Memory, How Great is our God devotions, catechism?, 1-2 hymns/month
  • Reading - 40 book challenge (deeply and widely), weekly reflection letter to me, reading to each other, independent reading, audiobook together, ideas from Sarah Mackenzie about teaching reading without a curriculum, conversations about what we're/they're reading!
  • Language Arts - EP offline workbook, poetry memorization (IEW), Red Hot Root Words (1/week), spelling as they miss words
  • Science - EP biology (2nd semester)
  • History - Ancient History (1st semester), D'Aulaire's book of Greek myths
  • Foreign Language - Japanese (TalkBox.Mom)
  • Art - 1 element/month using art elements book, weekly art time, ancient art?
  • Music - piano weekly, recorder?, Blossom and Root/EP music appreciation
  • P.E. - yoga pretzels, 1 sport/month
handwriting? geography? poetry teatime? typing? notebooking?

Weekly
  • verse(s)
  • art time
  • recipe
  • Family Math activity
  • KET NewsQuiz
  • write about what they're reading
Monthly
  • two hymns
  • element of art
  • spot
  • country? (food, culture, language, etc.)
  • geography challenge
Morning Time
  • Bible, prayer, hymn, memory verse
  • mentor sentences?
  • mental math?
  • music/art
  • poetry memorization
  • catechism
  • Japanese
  • Wordle/Jumble
  • team challenge
  • history/biology (may happen after a break)
Independent Time
  • math, L.A. workbooks
  • IXL (math, L.A. skills), Seterra (geography)
  • Code.org? Typing?
  • independent reading, Bible reading
  • writing
  • piano
  • chore(s)

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