Day 18

3-day Weekend

Day 17

Day 16

Day 15

Day 14

Math: M did 1 Envision lesson. A worked in Geometry and Measurement and 2nd grade workbooks.

Language Arts: A worked in Simple Sentences and 2nd grade workbooks.

Writing: Wrote in writing journal - favorite school subject.

Reading: Read to self, 20 minutes each.

Music: Practiced violin, 30 minutes each.

PE: Karate forms class, 45 minutes.

Spanish: Bilingual story time.

Other: Community Club at old school. Checked out books at the public library.

Day 13

PE: Karate forms class, 90 minutes.

Weekend

Music: Violin group lessons, 100 minutes. M did 30 minutes piano lesson.

Sick Day

M is sick, so we are mostly taking the day off. Continuing to organize and plan, to hopefully be fully up to speed Monday.

Day 12

Math: Right Start came! A did 2 Envision lessons, and the first 3 Right Start lessons (he placed in B, but it starts below where he is, so we're zooming through them to get used to the new system and find the right level). M took test for Noetic Math competition.

PE: Karate sparring class, 90 minutes. PE at former school, 30 minutes.

Music: Music at former school, 25 minutes.

Writing: Write in writing journal on vertebrates and invertebrates.

Reading: Read to self, 20 minutes.

Misc: Speech at old school. Watched a movie about frog life cycle with class they go to PE and Music with in between.

Halloween

We took the day off for Halloween. We went to a party with the homeschool group, carved our pumpkin, decorated, went trick-or-treating, and ran errands.

Day 11

Math: A did 6 lessons. M worked in Geometry and Measurement and Word Problems workbooks.

Science: 1 page in "Daily Science" workbooks. Read ocean life book.

Writing: Wrote in writing journal - free choice.

Spelling: Went over phonograms again.

Reading: Read to self, 20 minutes each.

PE: Karate forms class, 45 minutes.

Other: Community Club at old school.

Day 10

Math: M did 2 lessons. A worked in Geometry and Measurement workbook, and both did Math-a-Minute.

Science: 1 page in "Daily Science" workbooks.

Writing: Wrote in writing journal - free choice.

Reading: Read to self, 20 minutes each.

L.A.: Megan worked in Grade 5 workbook.

PE: Karate forms class, 90 minutes.

Keyboarding: M did third lesson and A did fourth lesson in Typing Instructor for Kids.

Weekend

Music: M did 30 minutes piano lesson.

Day 9

Math: M did unit test, A did 2 lessons (finally online). A worked in Word Problems workbook, and both did Math-a-Minute.

Writing: Wrote in writing journal about bird presentation.

Reading: Read to self, 20 minutes each.

Spelling: Went over phonograms again.

Music: Practiced violin 30 minutes each. M had 1/2 hour piano lesson.

PE: Karate forms class, 45 minutes.

Keyboarding: M did second lesson and A did third lesson in Typing Instructor for Kids.

Day 8

Math: Both worked in Geometry and Measurement workbooks.

PE: Karate sparring class, 90 minutes. PE at former school, 30 minutes.

Music: Music at former school, 25 minutes.

Science: One page in "Daily Science" workbooks.

Misc: Saw presentation, with live birds, by rescue organization (with homeschool group). M had speech; A had IEP meeting, will start speech next week. Teacher of class they go to PE and Music offered to have them stay with class in between, so they did and watched a movie about vertebrates and invertebrates.

Day 7

Math: Both worked in Word Problems and Geometry and Measurement workbooks, and did Math-a-Minute.

Music: Violin lessons, 30 minutes each.

Science: One page in "Daily Science" workbooks.

Misc: Field trip to local "farm" with homeschool group.

Day 6

Math: M did 1 lesson, A worked in Word Problems workbook, and both did Math-a-Minute.

Writing: Wrote thank-you letters to karate teachers who helped them prepare for tournament.

Reading: Read to self, 20 minutes each.

Spelling: Took placement test for Spell to Write and Read. Introduced phonograms.

PE: Karate forms class, 45 minutes.

Music: Practiced violin, 30 minutes each.

Science: Read another book on ocean life. Watched video on sharks.

Spanish: Bilingual story time at the library.

Misc: Checked out books at the public library.

Day 5

Math: M did 1 lesson, A worked in Mead Grade 2 workbook, and both did Math-a-Minute.

Writing: Write in writing journal about they learned so far at homeschool.

Reading: Read to self, 20 minutes each.

LA: A worked in Mead Grade 2 workbook.

PE: Karate forms class, 90 minutes.

Science: Read another book on ocean life.

Keyboarding: M re-did 1st lesson and A did second lesson in Typing Instructor for Kids.

Weekend

Music: M did 45 minutes of violin group lessons.

Art: M did 90 minute printmaking class at local gallery

PE: Both participated in Karate tournament (M placed 1st in forms, 3rd in sparring, and 1st in weapons; Alex placed 4th in forms, 3rd in sparring, and 2nd in weapons).

Day 4

Math: M did 1 lesson and worked in Fractions and Decimals workbook, A worked in Subtraction workbook, and both did Math-a-Minute.

Writing: Write in writing journal, open topic.

Reading: Read to self, 20 minutes each

PE: Daily Physical Activity (DPA) 15 minutes, Karate forms class 45 minutes, Karate forms and weapons practice 15 minutes each

Science: Read another book on ocean life.

Keyboarding: A re-did 1st lesson in Typing Instructor for Kids

Day 3

Math: Both did 1 lesson and Math-a-Minute.

Writing: Write in writing journal, topic: Ocean animal fictional story.

Reading: Read to self, 20 minutes each.

Music: Practiced violin 30 minutes each.

PE: General exercise, which I will call Daily Physical Activity (DPA) 15 minutes, Karate sparring class 45 minutes, Karate forms and weapons practice 15 minutes each.

Science: Read 2 on-theme books, watched non-fiction show about sea animals in winter. Continuing to add ocean information to their science journals.

Keyboarding: 1st lesson in Typing Instructor for Kids.

Misc: Went to the charter for speech for M, also turned in speech paperwork for A. Met with principal to discuss plans: Both will do music and PE Thursday afternoons with the 1/2 combo class. School will keep allowing access to Envision online, but will not provide workbook pages for A or lend textbook for M. She will check with superintendent about possibility of checking out SRC books. They can continue with community club.

Day 2

Math: A did 2 lessons today, and M did 1. Both did Math-a-Minute.

Writing: Free write in writing journal.

Reading: Read to self, 20 minutes each.

Music: Practiced violin 30 minutes each plus lessons, 30 minutes each.

Misc: Park play date with new homeschool group. Continuing to get things together, waiting on some curricula, deciding on others, and working out a semi-regular schedule.

Day 1

Math: At least for now, we are continuing the program they were using, Envision Math. They each did 2 lessons today, because they wanted to and were able to. We also started Math-a-Minute.

Science: We started our Sea Life unit. They did Know/Want to Know, and we read 2 related books.

Writing: Started writing journals, today's topic being: Starting Homeschool!

Reading: Read to self, 20 minutes each

Music: Practiced violin 30 minutes each

Introduction

I am not expecting anyone to read this. I am doing this solely for myself, to keep a record of what we are doing. However, if you have stumbled across this, welcome! My name is Katie. I am starting homeschooling today. My kids are 7 (2nd grade), 5 (kindergarten), and 3 (preschool). They were in "regular" schools until now. After the first quarter this year, we determined their needs were not being met, and they were starting to dislike school (despite loving learning), so we decided to start homeschooling.

We are ramping up, so not at full speed yet, but off to a good start. We are fortunate that the charter they were attending is very supportive. They will continue to provide speech services, and have also offered to let them come once a week for PE and music with their former classmates - we have not decided yet whether we want to do that for sure - as well as borrow curriculum and ask questions. We have found a local homeschool group that we are going to meet tomorrow to see if it is a good fit. We have signed up for a homeschool day at the local aquarium next month. I have ordered some curricula and materials and I am continuing to go through the wealth of information online.

The kids are excited, and I am looking forward to it - and not nearly as nervous as I would have thought. :-) Wish us luck!