Thursday, July 06, 2006

Intensive summer school term

Due to illness and life last year, we didn't finish several textbooks, so are doing an intensive summer term. We won't do our yearly assessment testing until the end of August. We just started yesterday, and I am hoping today and tomorrow go smoother. Here are the goals for summer.

For the Boy: When asked what grade he is in, I am telling folks "Eighth and a half". He is not ready for high school work yet, in several areas, and will be taking co-op classes in the fall; my goal is to strengthen his writing, latin, and math skills, and to develop some strong study skills . He will be doing his best to move through almost a whole year's text in math, doing a chapter a day sometimes.

For the Girl, we are strengthening her math and Latin, to prepare for co-op classes in those areas. She will be doing pre-algebra in the co-op class, so we are focusing on building up her 4 math functions, and she needs some work in division.

So, for the Girl, the days look something like this:
Math, Latin, and Grammar (just building it up a bit this summer- we will replace it with writing in the fall), an hour a day.
Same for the Boy, but we are focusing on the writing lessons as much as grammar.

For both kids, but mostly for the benefit of the Boy, we are doing weekly contracts- we both intital that this is the work he is expected to complete for the week, and he acknowledges that if it isn't done, nothing fun happens, and he gets an "F" on it. I know it sounds drastic, but if you had been trying to teach this student for the last 3 years, you weould feel this desperate, too!

To keep track of our work, support the contracts, etc. we are using the agendas by Franklin Covey. This is the Girl's, this one is the Boy's, and this is the one I am using, although it bums me out that mine doesn't start till August, even though the student agenda starts in July. Bleah! I will be using mine to plan and keep trackc of the kids' work/schedules, but I will mostly be using it to keep track of the work I assign myself (reading of ancient lit,latin, etc. This is the second year we have used these planners, but the first year that I will used the column for teacher comments and will actually mark their grades in them (remember, I gotta keep transcripts this year!).

Both kids do their instrument practice (horn for Boy, Piano for Girl) daily as well.
1/2 hour of literature reading a day (Little Women for both of them), about a half hour of me reading Calendar Quest (scroll down and click on it to read more) to them, and that is it for the daily stuff. We bought all the ingredients for the Physics experiments, and will be doing that about 2 times a week. I will add other subjects in this fall, but for now, I still want them to have a few hours of free time- it is summer, after all. So if they are integrity, they can be done with their school day by 2 pm and still have the afternoon for fun stuff.
We shall see.

I am still working with next year's schedule/plans. After reading The Latin Centered Curriculum, I am trying to figure out how to simplify and still get in all I want to. I will post more thoughts on LCC soon. There were some really good thoughts on literature that really hit home with me.
Mistress LB

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