So -- Milo will be starting 1st grade in Sunday School.
He will finish up Creation to the Greeks with us and begin Rome to Reformation unit. This is designed to be taught at a 2nd grade level. So anything he gleans is beneficial, but not required. He will NOT be required to do the worksheets or hands on projects, although sometimes he likes to watch the science experiments and do the hands on projects. This part of his school - hands on, is child driven. I always have him sit and listen to the readings and join in with the verse memorizing.
This includes:
Bible/History
- Rome, the life of Jesus, early church history, Middle Ages, Renaissance, and Reformation from a Christian perspective.
- Bible readings and memory verses.
- Hands-on projects: Make a Roman writing tablet and enjoy a Roman feast, construct a Roman arch, sample foods from the Middle Ages, play Medieval games and more.
- Learn to play chess and construct a cardboard castle.
- Map work, history notebook, and timeline.
- Library book. Daily reading out of the book basket! This will not be REQUIRED of him, but he can read if he wants to.
- Human body - participate in simple experiments and demonstrations as well as make simple models of body systems.
- Astronomy - explore the universe from a Christian perspective. Includes hands-on activities.
- Weekly nature walk and nature journal.
- Selected books that are integrated with the study of history to inspire and develop godly character. We will use The Bronze Bow, Twice Freed, Dangerous Journey, and Door in the Wall.
- Enjoy hands-on projects from history.
- Art lessons include drawing as well as Roman, Early Church, and Middle Ages art from a godly perspective, using God and The History of Art .
- Music appreciation lessons focus on Haydn, Beethoven, and Mozart.
Of course vocabulary lessons focus on Latin roots using English from the Roots Up.
Those things are all things we will be doing as a family. We set up our school like a one room school house. Combining as many things as we can. The rest of the list with be done alone, or one on one with Mom.
MFW suggests that a student begins Singapore math in 2nd grade, starting with book 1A. So - we will follow that suggest for Milo. MFW has a 1st grade program that you can purchase separately, and also teach separately one on one. I am choosing NOT to do that. Since the Math is included in the 1st grade manual, we won't be doing the MFW math for 1st grade. I WILL be getting The Complete Book of Math workbook that they suggest you get if you aren't going to do the 1st grade math. So -- he will be doing math every day from the workbook, as well as all day long as I think about it. Calendar work, days of the week, time - I recently purchased a how to tell time book for him from e-bay. (Thanks Lisa) I'll print off the Singapore placement test for the 1A text book to make sure he will be up to the standard when he will begin that program in 2nd grade. There are also all kinds of free web-sites for math that I will be using to print off worksheets, or have him play math games to keep from having any gaps in his math education.
He will be doing book A of the Getty-Dubay Italic Handwriting series.
Our piano teacher likes to start pianos lessons in 2nd grade. He has one more year of reprieve from this "torture". LOL
He will continue using 100 EZ Lessons until it is complete. This books says the student will be on a 2nd grade reading level when complete. If he can read at a 2nd grade level at the end of 1st grade, I will be happy. Upon completing this book we will start to use the Pathway Readers together. This is one on one with Mom.
We also will be using the Bible Reader with simplified Bible stories that the student reads for himself. This is a MFW product. At the beginning on the year I read and he follows along. Then he eventually will read to me.
The spelling power book recommends we begin using this in 2nd grade. So he will not be doing spelling.
He will also work on his S.S. lesson paper and be memorizing his S.S. verse each week. I write this up on his white board list too each day.
He will not be open enrolled or dual enrolled.
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