PRINTABLE HOMESCHOOL WEEKLY CHECKLIST – CYCLE 3
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- Make Latin Flashcards
- Make Geography Flashcards
- (states one side, capital other)
- Geography Activity
- Spelling Dictation
- (Bible or other memory work)
- Math Review
- Saxon Math
- Science
- Timeline Review & Connections
- Reading
- Pick a book or several books that go along with the cycle 3 history, geography, science, or timeline
- Bible (AWANA)
- History Review & Connections
- Essentials (4th -6th grade)
- Extras
- Art, Music, Spanish, Other, Nature Journaling
HOW LONG DOES SCHOOL TAKE?
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- Make Latin Flashcards (15 minutes, 1 day)
- Make Geography Flashcards (15 minutes, 1 day)
- (states one side, capital other)
- Geography Activity (15 minutes a day, 4 days)
- Spelling Dictation (15 minutes a day, 4 days)
- (Bible or other memory work)
- Math Review (10 minutes a day, 2 days)
- Saxon Math (up to 3 hours a week)
- Science (1 hour a week)
- Timeline Review & Connections (15 minutes a week)
- Reading (varies – 1-4 hours a week)
- Pick a book or several books that go along with the cycle 3 history, geography, science, or timeline
- Bible (AWANA) (20 minutes a day)
- History Review & Connections (30 minutes a week)
- Essentials (4th -6th grade) (45 minutes a day, 4 days)
- Extras (1 hour a week)
- Art, Music, Spanish, Other
School with Younger Kids – 10 hours a week + Reading Time and Class Time. And most of it is in conversational type learning.
What should I do besides reviewing memory work?
- Make Flashcards – math, geography, Latin. Yes, you can buy flashcards already made, but having the students make the cards themselves gives:
- Handwriting practice
- Spelling practice
- Review opportunities
- Ownership in the review process
- Geography Activities (Choose at least ONE each week)
- Tracing Maps
- Free hand Drawing of Maps
- Quizzing/Drilling Geography Info
- Geography Puzzles
- Notebooking Pages for a States or Geography Notebook
- Coloring Pages, with Info about Geographical Areas
- Watching How the States Got their Shapes
- Making States Flags
- Learning States Abbreviations
- Cooking Food from different Geographical Areas
- Math Time
- Flashcards
- Skip Counting Songs
- Writing out Facts
- Math Games
- Saxon Math Curriculum (3-4 lessons a week)
- Bible
- We study AWANA verses, as well as reading a chapter of the Bible together as a family. AWANA also has the older children look up passages to study Scripture for themselves.
- We write out Bible verses.
- Spelling/Dictation
- Write Bible verses – first as copy work, later in the week from memory.
- Practice handwriting and cursive with memory work
- Learn to spell words from science, geography or history facts.
- Write out the English (for older students, this information will be used in filling in charts in Essentials).
- Reading
- Pick books to go along with history sentences. These can be stories the children can read themselves, or read alouds or both. See my printable reading list for suggestions.
- When we were learning to read, we used 100 Easy Lessons to Teach your Child to Read and All about Reading. We are now just reading books and not using a “curriculum.”
- Science
- This year my two older children (5th and 6th grade) will be using Lyrical Life Science. It has music on CD that explains human anatomy. It also has a textbook and workbook.
- For my younger daughter (3rd grade), we are using a simpler, mostly picture book about human anatomy.
- Timeline
- We sing the song with motions.
- We make connections to the Bible and to our other CC cycles.
- We sometimes make posters to connect different points of history.
- We look for mentions of these items in books and movies and TV shows.
- We relate what we are reading to what else is going on in the world.
- Art
- We use Draw Write Now to make pages relating to history or sometimes science.
- We make gifts for others – cards, etc.
- History
- We make connections by reading and drawing mostly.
- We have lots of conversation.
- We do not use a history textbook.
- Writing
- We do Essentials – diagramming sentences, writing paragraphs and papers.
- We write letters to our friends, family, and church members.
- We do dictation of memorized work.
- Memory Work
- Memorize Scripture
- Memorize CC Facts
- Memorize Essentials charts
- Memorize poetry or famous speeches
- Memorize hymns
- Music
- Tin Whistle
- Music Theory (reading music)
- Piano (only informally)
- Singing
- Spanish
- We focused on Spanish during the summer. We have neighbor friends who are bilingual.