Tag:K
Donna Young’s Art Program
When I asked my 7-year-old rising 3rd grader which curriculum was her favorite, she said her art program. Since we let her take art at our co-op, we don’t actually do a formal art program at home. It took me a minute to realize she was talking about the Donna Young sheets that we are …
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Horseback Riding Lessons
We originally gave K horseback riding lessons as a birthday present this year, since she has become quite the horse lover. After several weeks of lessons, H expressed interest in having lessons as well. Once a week we take them for private lessons with a young lady from our co-op. They groom the horse together, …
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2011-12 Curriculum Changes
For the most part, we are going to be using the same curriculum as last year, with a few minor changes, additions, and transitions. Here are the differences: K:Growing With Grammar – She just recently finished level 2 and is now into level 3. Before we began our four-week break, she got through the first …
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New Grading Procedures
Since my oldest daughter has expressed interest in receiving grades on her daily work, we have spent some time deciding exactly how to weigh the grades for next year. While I believe that a test should be the major indicator of how well a child is learning and retaining information, her interest in also being …
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Reading Test, Part I
The first part of K’s faux standardized reading test has been graded. Before going over the results, here are the details. K has been taking a sample standardized test for 2nd-grade reading. I am then going over the answers for each section, and grading them. Since this is a sample test, I have no way …
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The Upcoming Week
I am going to do something a little different this week. Since I did not do weekly updates of our last two weeks before our Christmas vacation, I have decided to give a sneak preview of the week to come. Tomorrow is our first day back after our break, and I’m excited to get back …
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K’s Math Concepts
By Daddy K: The ingenuity of youth is endlessly amazing. Our eldest daughter, K, came up with a few Math concepts on her own that simply blew me away. I was so amazed that I had to make my first addition to the Blog. The first concept was chronologically second, but is the easier concept …
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Peter Pan
Last night K finished reading an adapted version of Peter Pan. We started it a few weeks ago, and read roughly half of it taking turns reading aloud. I would read a chapter, she should read part of a chapter, and then she would finish the chapter silently before bed. After about chapter 5 or …
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Real Life Farm Field Trip
These were taken at a field trip we attended in early October. They got to feed and hold lots of baby animals and K milked a cow. H decided she just liked to look at the cow.