Summer 2016 Homeschool

Another school break upon us so it's time to kick it up with the homeschool thing.

Writing.

I decided to continue the writing lessons that we had been doing every holiday break. So far, we've done simple diary-keeping, creative writing winter, and started a bit of essay this time. We still have a long way to go in making a headway in a proper essay that should be useful in the coming years ahead.

Math.

Aside from writing, I can only add a bit of math review for this summer since the writing part really take some time to complete. I had planned on reviewing and solidifying (if I can) the "fraction skills" and cover the basic geometry (equations and all) before moving up to pre-algebra for next year. It's getting harder but I hope that I can still cover the basics in English coz he's learning everything now in Korean. This has been evident in some part of fractions (i.e. GCF, LCM) and solving for geometry equations. It seems that they don't use equations. Whew! I had a hard time wrapping my head around it as I tried to help my son a few weeks ago. I figured, I had to teach him this in English.

There are other topics that I think they missed like converting between the metric and imperial measurement system. This we learned when when we were in grade school so I pretty much have an idea using both. Of course, proper computation would mean knowing the conversion tables for such but I am more flexible in estimating smaller distances to say the least. I mean, at least, inches and cms. But km and miles are a bit off for me though. I want my son to be more flexible and not grow up with just one way.

Geography. 
I would love to do geography this summer but I have yet to find a good resource for this. We only have 5 sessions and I am not sure when we can squeeze it in.

Typing
This one is inspired way into the summertime already and I have to find a schedule for this. But this can be fun if done every other day.

That will be all for today. I'll write more about the writing journey, geography and typing later. Gotta to do quick chore for now before I head out for my gig.

Winter Writing 2015 (part 4)

            

              

   

             
               

Winter Writing 2015 (Part 3)

Part 3

Winter Writing 2015 (Part 2)

Part 2

Winter Writing 2015 (Part 1, Late Post)

This was originally handwritten on a notebook but it's high time for digitalization. It's a one-year-late post. This is the first part of four.

Winter Writing 2015-16

P has started the winter writing before the holidays and had done 4 so far. In an effort to decrease the paper clutter in the future, I thought about digitizing the output this time. I can either let him encode these for typing practice or take photos.

Our last year's winter writing was more on journals to document his first winter here. Last summer was more on basic writing including paragraphs, main ideas, organizing information, and a little bit of comparing, contrasting, cause and effect. This time, I've looked into creative writing within a 15-minute limit. This should be short, easier to accomplish and perhaps, even more fun. Once we've finish this series, I hope to go back and review the basics of paragraph writing and get a little start on essays. I got a book waiting to be used but I'm not sure if it's an appropriate level yet. This book seems to be geared for high school or university level. I may have to keep an eye out for other resources for his level.
This reminds me of some homeschooling efiles that I have in some cds. I'l have to check on that.

For now, I'll have him start the typing project to encode his handwritten ones this winter.