Share more about PS Homeschool curriculum and how we structure our days. For more about Why we chose Homeschool, take a look at this post.
Hello friends! How are you doing? I hope you have a wonderful morning. Today I have a few customer calls, homeschool fun and we will do an afternoon hike. What are you going to do?
For today’s post, I wanted to entertain more about how we structure our days after we are from homeschooling in week 3. It is worth noting here that every day is different and these are only boxes that we check every day. The beauty of the homeschool is that it is flexible. It takes far less time than the traditional school, and they have freedom to pause things, change things or move things depending on what is going on.
It is also worth mentioning here that I am not an expert and only have minimal experience in this area. I am the newcomer to the newcomers and I seriously find it how we go. I am so grateful that there are homeschool experts and friends out there with the help and advice. I will take all the tips I can get!
I’m so grateful too Brittany from a healthy part of life Whoever jumped in, hopped on the phone with me when I sent her a super long voice message, persuaded myself from the Sims and helped me find a game plan. Take a look at your blog for homeschool information, recipes, travel and lifestyle – it is incredible.
Even though I still finish it out, I wanted to share this post for my friends who are thinking about the homeschool but are as intimidated as I do. I thought I had to be a * teacher to be good in it. You don’t have to have a teaching background. You just have to find the right adjustment of curriculum (and know that you can change at any time), have a little patience and flexibility and continue to show your child love and patience. <3
Our homeschool curriculum and how we structure our days
For the most part, the day goes like this:
We wake up and bring Liv to school. We come home, P has breakfast, I give her a bit of cool time in which she can play with toys, puzzles, build, etc. (here I got a few e -mails or equip work from work) and we start school at 9 a.m.
Almost the entire curriculum we use is plug -and -play, which means that you open the book, read the lesson, answer and continue the questions. (Almost everything below was recommended by Brittany)
Math- 20-30 minutes
We use Nicole the Math Dame and Saxon Math. We used to use Saxon Math at the girls’ school (they had switched to mathematics in the focus) and I knew that I wanted to return to Saxon. Nicole the Math Lady teaches every lesson (about a 10-minute video with a kitschy brain break that Pers Preach), and then you have to complete exercise questions and 1-2 worksheets. They enter the children’s answers to the computer and follow their grades. Each lesson takes about 2 days to complete.
Grammar -20-30 minutes
We use for grammar Masterbooks, a curriculum based on belief. It includes image studies, memorization, characterization, spelling, vocabulary, observation, poems, psalms, letters and practical use by creative writing. We just started, but I have the feeling that she has already learned a lot from this textbook. This year she learned italics, so she is working on answering the questions in italics.
Writing 20-30 minutes
We do that to write Fables, myths and fairy tales Writing of lessons by IEW. It focuses on your structure and style method. At the moment she is working to read fables, create important outlines and stories (to be able to retire the story with her notes).
Read – 20 minutes
I just want her to read for the time being, so we read something Super carefree and fun together. This book has the test of the time and she loves it. We are both often at some point while we read about Fudge and his antics.
Science + social science / geography – about 2x per week
I’m still trying to find out a plan for it, but since we are near the summer. At the moment she is working on making the states to make the capitals by heart and finding them on a card.
We do a project for science every week. In the first week we leaned OWL pellets, the bones in the bone sorting cards match and talked about what we found. In week 2 she constructed an egg waste that we could fall from the balcony to the courtyard while we held the egg intact. We talked about speed, gravity, impulse, action and reaction. This week she is working on it Construction of a roller coaster ride.
Since we only plan a homeschooling up to 5th grade, I will contact the Liv school to see what expectations the rise of 5th grade for science and social science/geography so that I can make sure that we treat the bases.
Midday:
We take Maisey for a walk and eat together at noon, get a few tasks and find a plan for the afternoon.
Afternoon:
When we made this decision, I said P that I loved hanging around with her, but could not be her cruise director all day. In the afternoon before we pick up LIV, I will create coaching calls, create content, edit, podcast interviews, whatever I have to work for a few hours. I also postponed my work plan, so I work more on weekends or when the pilot from Airline training is at home. (We started all of this when he went, so I found parenting and all of this alone.) Saturday is now a working day and most of the Sunday. Apart from PS basketball game, I will pretty much write/work/work all day until dinner.
In the afternoon she plays with toys, works on something she enjoys (music, crochet, shooting tires, etc.), and when I have caught up with work, I bring her to a playground in indoor to make errands, and sometimes I will give her some time by screen. Since she has basketball at night and we chase around dance courses with LIV, she usually doesn’t get a screen time in the evening.
The days mix around. Sometimes I have an appointment in the morning or teach a barre class, so we do a school in the afternoon and also explore some of the Tucson Homeschool activities. There are so many great things here: parkour, gymnastics, art, cooperatives, horse lessons, music I am happy to check them!
That’s how it works now! I am sure that it will change over time and my plan is to catch up with mathematics (it now ends the third grade book and I hope to get the 4. Class and the largest part of the 5th place next year, while it is in the 4th grade.
With homeschool you can meet the child wherever. If you progress quickly in one topic, you can progress with you or take more time on certain topics if you need it.
If you have ideas for funny science projects or social studies and geography resources, I would appreciate it so much! If there are questions that I can answer in future articles, please LMK!
Xoxo
Gina
