April 13 - 17 COVID - 19 School Schedule

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This week the schedule really worked well. We started our day around 8:30 when my husband would also start his work day in the home office (aka our bedroom). We generally work for about an hour on my oldest sons schooling and then do some songs and snacks with my youngest son after. This all adds up to about an hour and a half. Once all the "work" is done we go downstairs or outside to play and take a break. My oldest son is also getting use to what our day schedule looks like and is excited to start school and now just wants to get all his work done as he knows the rest of the day will be for playing. We have spent a lot of time focusing on sight words and I have noticed a huge difference in his reading as he is starting to recognize words. He still loves math and usually does his math work in bed before he has a bedtime story. His teacher sent out some great math activities to try and we will try to add those during the day. I recently bought him a Kindergarten math activity book and he just loved doing a page or two of math problems a night.


I am really happy with the work his teacher has sent out and have added it into the mix of the other activities I have planned or substitute them into the subject areas. I usually gauge this based on what type of attitude my son has that day and if he is eager to learn and work then we attempt both my plan and her plan and if he seems less engaged then we do her work first and then move on to mine if he still wants to work. Also adding in some of the free resources right now is another way to get your children having fun and learning. Especially if they are blowing through their school work that is assigned to them from their teachers. Look back at some of the other homeschooling posts to see what resource options are available to them or check out our weekly schedule below to add in some other ideas.

Our seedlings are really taking off and growing quite well. We have had everything except out Jalapeno peppers sprout. I did do some reading that said they tend to take longer to germinate so fingers crossed they sprout as we really enjoy them all summer long! My husband loves to chop them up and put them on his steaks (marinated) and I recently added them to some NY style bagels and they were delicious!




Monday - Easter Monday (No school)

Tuesday 
Reading - Scholastic Day 16 ocean habitat
Writing - Name and writing a letter and drawing a picture for his Friend
Craft - Ocean Craft
Math - Walk around the neighbourhood and could how many telephone poles there are.
STEM - Exploding milk experiment

Wednesday
Reading - Scholastic Day 17 Health Hand washing
Writing - Name and sight word Read it, build it and write it
Craft - Bubble paint monsters
Math - Hopscotch
STEM - Making Bubbles

Thursday (Sports Day)
Reading - Day 18 Gravity
Writing - Writing about your favourite sport and then draw a picture of a good sports memory
Craft - Create paper airplanes and see how far they can fly
Math - Take 10 shots on the net and how many could you get in (Hockey & Basketball), Have 10
            pitches thrown at you and how many balls could you hit?
STEM - Flying paper airplanes

Friday
Reading - Day 19 Animal Studies Penguins
Writing - Write a letter to another friend and play sight word bingo
Craft - Toilet paper roll penguins
Math - hopscotch & counting how many coins your tinfoil boat will hold
STEM - Tinfoil boat float






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