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.

January 2010

Science

Vertebrates:
Reptile - lapbook, origami (snake)
Amphibian - lapbook, origami (frog)

This month, we had been working on the animal lapbook. This should have been better if followed accordingly from water to air habitat but Teacher Mom decided to let the kid have a hand on deciding which one comes first. It should be fun at this point anyways.

TM prepared(pre-cut) the papers, searched for the books and P did some interesting reading and gluing at the library. We can't take books out of the library.

Language and Lit

The Wizard of Oz

a. Included a little of geography. We now know where to find Connecticut on the U.S. map. Our next will be Kansas.

More to do on ti next month. Tornado, dogs, etc.

Math

Clocks

Last month, we started on the clock thing. Used Mammoth Math pages outdoor. We actually went far this time, at Baker's. But P seemed got an overload with the minute part. TM went overboard. We have to slow down for a month. We'll be reviewing this before this month ends.

Geography

We discovered another good software to play maps. Seterra. We had occasionally played this one this month. We've covered Southeast Asia. But TM has already explored Northern and Mid-east Asia. Located usual places mentioned in the news (CNN) such as Pakistan, Afghanistan. ;)