Plans for next few months

Here are the plans for June-August.   It covers three months, which include two months of no school to interfere with plans. Of course, I reserve the right to get distracted by frogs at the lake or stars wanting to be watched. Priorities!


To read to Rachel: 
I think we'll do some fairy tales this summer as morning breakfast reading and going to bed material.

The Rooster Crows: A Book of American Rhymes and Jingles
Shake it to the One that You Love the Best by Cheryl Mattox
When We Were Young by A.A. Milne
Now We AreSix by A.A. Milne
Dancing Teepees: Poems of American Indian Youth
How Many Spots Does a Leopard Have? and Other Tales
In a Circle Long Ago: A Treasury of Native Love from North America
The Little Red Hen
The Bremen-Town Musicians by Ilse Plume
Cinderella by Marcia Brown
Henny Penny by Paul Galdone
Little Red Riding Hood by Trina Hyman
Red Riding Hood by james marshall
Peach Boy: A Japanese Legend by Gail Sakuri
Peach Boy by William Hooks
Snow White by Paul Heins
Snow White by Randall Jarrell
The Story of Jumping Mouse
The Three Billy Goats Gruff
The Ugly Duckling by Marianna Mayer
The Ugly Duckling by Lilian Moore
Winnie-the-Pooh by A.A. Milne
The Wolf and the Seven Little Kids
The Aesop for Children
The Best of Aesop Fables by Margaret Clark

Rachel reads:
Rachel has now discovered the joy of browsing the library stacks and finding books.  My heart overflowed with joy as I watched her this last week find a book and settle in to read while I was browsing the shelves.

Given the option to choose books for herself, she has read about 2-3 books a day.  I hope this lasts.  We're going to do the TD Summer Reading program this summer, but I'm going to augment the structure by adding a "number of books" requirement for the week.  I'd like her to read a new book every day...so seven a week.  I think I'll put together a chart for her.  She loves charts and stars.

Math
I've struggled with finding a math program I like.  Singapore is more visually engaging, but doesn't have the reasoning I'd like.  MEP is great, but boring visually.  Minquon is good, but moves too slowly.  I'm going to try MEP again and then explore adding in random pages from other sources.


French
We found a fun app for the iPad to review basic French.  Gus on the Go.






Writing practice
She's doing well enough on the writing that I'm creating practice sheets based on sentences in her FIAR book.  We're using those practice sheets to discuss grammar and punctuation as well.

Words
She loves the flashcard game.  I used the 300 most common words in English. We've covered 250 of them.  50 left.   It is scary to see so much of myself in her.  I was always very competitive about flash card drills.  If she had been like David, she would have hated them. (And, thus, we would not have used them at all.)

Five in a Row
Week of June 8: Daniel's Duck
Week of June 15: Who Owns the Sun?
Week of June 22: The Bee Tree
Week of June 29: Andy and the Circus
Week of July 6: The Wild Horses of Sweetbriar
Week of July 13: Paul Revere's Ride  (which I think I will pair with a Laura Secord book)
Week of July 20: Henry the Castaway
Week of July 27: The Finest Horse in Town
Week of August 3: Truman's Aunt Farm
Week of August 10: The Duchess Bakes a Cake
Week of August 17: Andy and the Lion
Week of August 24: Warm as Wool

Science
We'll pull science projects from Five in a Row and from the Singapore Science book.  We'll also do some basic orienteering and scavenger hunts.

Art
We'll pull art projects from Five in a Row.  I'm also going to try to use a couple of the other resources I have in the library.