Here is the second installment to our homemade grade one curriculum.

To keep things a bit organized I’ve created a Grade One Curriculum page where I will have links to each of the weeks as I post them, you can head there to get the link for weeks 1 & 2 as well as an overview to our year and links to some of the books we will be trying to read this year.

On to weeks 3 & 4!

GRADE ONE CURRICULUM
WEEK THREE

We did one major switch up this week: we have moved math up in our morning. It has been working better to either do it first thing or right after our Bible story otherwise it seemed like Raeca was feeling overwhelmed with math but she still felt like she needed to do it.

MONDAY

It was Labor Day, so no school!

TUESDAY

BIBLE

• Abraham & Isaac – Genesis 22:1-19

MATH

• adding and subtracting page in workbook

WRITING

• copying memory verse

GEOGRAPHY

• introduction to Mexico
• drew the Mexican flag in notebook

WEDNESDAY

BIBLE

• Abraham & Isaac – Genesis 22:1-19 (from a different children’s Bible)

WRITING

• continued copying memory verse

MATH

• counting by 1’s and 10’s
• page in workbook

SCIENCE

• read about the pilot fish
• created a pilot fish notebook page

POETRY TEA TIME

• When We Were Very Young by A. A. Milne
• Nursery Rhymes

THURSDAY

BIBLE

• Abraham & Isaac – Genesis 22:1-19 (from a different children’s Bible)

MATH

• tens and ones

HISTORY

• continued reading Attack at the Arena
• browsed and read pages of an Ancient Rome encyclopedia about gladiator fights

FRIDAY

I don’t know what we did on Friday – apparently I didn’t record anything!

GRADE ONE CURRICULUM
WEEK FOUR

I tried a new system for our week and instead of writing down what we would do each day I just wrote down what I wanted to get completed for each subject for the week. It was a flop. Ha, had to learn by doing I suppose.

We also decided to try to fit our work into 4 days instead of 5 and use Friday as a swimming day – that worked out pretty well and is something we want to try to continue.

BIBLE

• The Sale of Birthright

WRITING

• memory verse

READING

• Little House on the Prairie

MATH

• greater than & less than
• adding & subtracting

SCIENCE

• green sea turtle
• jellyfish

GEOGRAPHY

• read picture books about Mexico

HISTORY

• finished reading Attack at the Arena

MUSIC

• listened to some Classics for Kids on Vivaldi

Well, that was weeks 3 & 4! They were definitely experimental weeks while we continued to search for a rhythm that works for us.

Weeks 5 & 6 coming soon!