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 associates! How are you? I hope that you simply’re having an exquisite morning. I’ve a few consumer calls at the moment, homeschool enjoyable, and we’re going to take a day hike. What are you as much as?

For at the moment’s publish, I wished to talk extra about how we construction our days now that we’re in week 3 of homeschooling. It’s price mentioning right here that daily is completely different and these are simply packing containers we verify 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 price mentioning right here that I’m NOT an knowledgeable 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 associates who’ve provided with assist and recommendation; I’ll take all the information 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 after I despatched her an excellent lengthy voice message, talked me off the ledge, and helped me work out a gameplan. Try her weblog for homeschool information, recipes, journey, and life-style – she is superb.

Despite the fact that I’m nonetheless figuring this out, I wished to share this publish for my associates on the market who’re contemplating homeschool, however are tremendous intimidated, simply as I used to be. I believed I’d must be a *trainer* to be good at this. You don’t must have a educating background. You simply want to search out the fitting curriculum match (and know you’ll be able to change at any time), have a bit of endurance and suppleness, 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 house, P has breakfast, I give her a bit of little bit of chill time the place she will play with toys, puzzles, construct issues, and so on. (that is the place I’ll atone 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 all the curriculum we’re utilizing is plug and play, which implies you open the guide, learn the lesson, reply the questions, and transfer on. (Virtually every little thing under was really useful 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 Woman teaches every lesson (a couple of 10 minute video with a corny mind break, which P loves) after which you might have follow questions and 1-2 worksheets to finish. You enter the youngsters’ 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 research, memorization, punctuation, spelling, vocabulary, statement, poems, psalms, letters, and sensible software by inventive writing. We simply began however I really feel like she’s already realized so much from this textbook. She realized cursive this yr, 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 technique. Proper now, she’s engaged on studying fables, making key outlines, and narration (having the ability to retell the story utilizing her notes).

Studying – 20 minutes

I simply need her to take pleasure in studying for now, so we’re studying one thing super lighthearted and fun together. This guide has held the take a look at of time and he or she LOVES it. We’re each typically cracking up in some unspecified time in the future 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 frightened about it since we’re near summer season. For now, she’s engaged on memorizing the states, capitals, and having 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 protecting 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, atone for a few chores, and work out a plan for the afternoon.

Afternoon:

Once we made this choice, I instructed P that I cherished hanging out along with her however couldn’t be her cruise director all day. Within the afternoon earlier than we choose up Liv, I’ll have teaching calls, content material creation, modifying, podcast interviews, no matter I must 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 house 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 best way.) Saturday is a piece blitz day now, and most of Sunday. Apart from 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 so on), 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 screen time. Since she has basketball at evening and we’re chasing round with Liv to bop courses, she often doesn’t get display screen time within the evenings.

The times shuffle round. Generally 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 verify them out!

In order that’s the way it’s going for now! I’m certain it would change over time and my plan is to get her caught up with math (she’s ending the third grade guide now and I”m hoping to get 4th grade and most of fifth completed subsequent yr 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 rapidly 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.

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

xoxo

Gina