Making lessons practical, memorable, and doable!
So, as mentioned, we are doing YEAR-ROUND 7 day a week school. This means 340 days with 2 to 2.5 hours of learning on average each day!
We break it up into 30 min. or 1 hour blocks. By doing this I hope to integrate what we are learning into what we are doing, making it both practical and doable! To get my five year old to sit still and focus on "lessons" for more than 15 or 20 minutes is nearly impossible! Yet he is a smart whipper snapper! He works best when his hands are moving and he can do or see what he is hearing about.
At his level, lessons include time, days, beginning reading, adding and subtracting, etc. Nothing too intense, so at this point it is very simple to integrate lessons into every day!
Day one of school I had him use his fine motor skills by cutting out 62 little squares containing the numbers 1-31 (twice, in two colors)
His number recognition up to 30 and counting went into play as I had him put the numbers in order and glue them properly onto his June calendar.
We discussed seasons, months, the year, and days of the week as we put the calendar together and admired its awesomeness.
We talked phonics as we tried to sound out the days of the week.
All of this took about an hour from start to finish. And now we have a calendar to work with for the whole month!
We will do more integrating with all the lessons, and I hope with daily USE (not just "practice and memorization") these things will be more than taught, but actually put to use!
More to come!
*we used the FREE printable calendar from mrprintables.com
I highly recommend this site for a variety of fun idea to get started!
We break it up into 30 min. or 1 hour blocks. By doing this I hope to integrate what we are learning into what we are doing, making it both practical and doable! To get my five year old to sit still and focus on "lessons" for more than 15 or 20 minutes is nearly impossible! Yet he is a smart whipper snapper! He works best when his hands are moving and he can do or see what he is hearing about.
At his level, lessons include time, days, beginning reading, adding and subtracting, etc. Nothing too intense, so at this point it is very simple to integrate lessons into every day!
Day one of school I had him use his fine motor skills by cutting out 62 little squares containing the numbers 1-31 (twice, in two colors)
His number recognition up to 30 and counting went into play as I had him put the numbers in order and glue them properly onto his June calendar.
We discussed seasons, months, the year, and days of the week as we put the calendar together and admired its awesomeness.
We talked phonics as we tried to sound out the days of the week.
All of this took about an hour from start to finish. And now we have a calendar to work with for the whole month!
More to come!
*we used the FREE printable calendar from mrprintables.com
I highly recommend this site for a variety of fun idea to get started!
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