Despite being pregnant, the first month of homeschooling kindergarten has gone pretty well. I feel like homeschooling is one of the only things I can actually do right now! I’m sure we will have to slow down for a few weeks as the baby will be here next Friday, but I’m so glad we got started in early August to get a good routine down before the big change.
Since I know other homeschoolers enjoy seeing what other families are doing…This is what we are doing for Kindergarten. Technically, this would be considered advanced/accelerated Kindergarten, but nonetheless my son is registered for “Kindergarten” this year.
So the first thing I have been doing each day is writing out our agenda for the day. We check it off as the day goes. So the lists below are exactly what I put on the daily agenda for my son. We don’t always get to do “read aloud” during the school day, but we have three different books going right now so reading gets done at some point. My husband is reading The Horse and His Boy to our son when he puts him to bed, I am reading Little House in the Big Woods to our son when we do read aloud or I put him to bed (can’t always now due to pregnancy symptoms), and my son himself is reading Farmer Boy (also by Laura Ingalls Wilder) but will ask me to read to him from that too. We each have our own book to be in charge of…strange, but true!
The first book we read and finished during school was Mr. Poppers Penguins. We were doing this each day for read aloud until my pregnancy got a bit harder and we had less time. Initially, I had printed out a study guide to go with it and my son was also doing out loud comprehension questions about each chapter, but I decided to get rid of that because we do that already for Writing With Ease 1 (narration every other day) and I didn’t want him to get burnt out. So now we just read together.
Schedule on Monday / Wednesday / Friday (These are our “full” school days. Also, transition time and getting my son to focus makes things take way longer sometimes. A few times, I’ve been surprised at how quickly we got it all done.)
- Breakfast
- Prayers
- Brush Teeth / Get Dressed
- Start School (School Prayer, Saint’s Life (one from Prologue of Ohrid), Bible Memory Verse) (10 min)
- Geography (Classical Conversations weekly review )(5 min)
- Handwriting (Getty Dubay Italic Book B) (5 min)
- First Language Lessons 1 (5 to 10 min)
- Writing With Ease 1 (5 to 15 min)
- All About Spelling (10 min)
- Break / Lunch or Lunch /Break depending on time
- MCP Plaid Phonics Level B worksheet (5 min)
- Rod and Staff Math Level 1(10 to 20 min) – supplementing with Horizons and Singapore 1 workbooks
- Read Aloud sometime during the rest of the day
- Piano Practice sometime during rest of the day but not on Fridays (10 min)
Tuesday
- Classical Conversations
- Math (10 to 20 min)
- Piano Practice (10 min)
- Read aloud
Thursday (This is also a shorter day due to afternoon activities, but what we do might vary)
- Breakfast
- Prayers
- Brush Teeth / Get Dressed
- Start School (School Prayer, Saint’s Life (one from Prologue of Ohrid), Bible Memory Verse) (10 min)
- Handwriting
- All About Spelling 1
- Phonics
- Math
- Piano Lesson
- Little Gym
Once my son gets in the routine of homeschool kindergarten and things are taking less time, we will add in some more “elective” subjects such as art, science, and foreign language. My son asks to do science and I keep telling him I will buy him a curriculum in December if he does a good with the first half of the year. When I first started homeschooling my son…just starting school, which included a short school prayer, reading a Saints Life and doing a Bible Memory verse could seriously take up to 30 minutes due to his distractibility. Now it only takes 5 to 10 minutes so I know as time goes on we will finish our subjects more quickly and have time for more “fun” subjects.
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