It's time again to start prepping for the start of a new school year! Here is our current plan for the 2024-2025 year, although it can always change along the way. I it 2nd grade even though he's technically in 1st grade, most of his work is actually at a 2nd grade level or above.
Math:
- Last year we did Beast Academy Level 1A, 1B, 1C, 1D and 2A. This year we will continue with Beast Academy Level 2. We also have the Puzzles 1 book.
- He also reads a math "story" every week. This might be a Mathstart book, a Sir Cumference book or section out of one of our other math books. He really likes Amazing Visual Math, Lift-the-Flap Math Shapes, and even likes to steal his brother's Math with Bad Drawings books. We also got him How Did Romans Count to 100?, which he loved, so we might get some others in the series.
Language Arts:
- Read aloud - I read him a chapter book. Either one that is a little above his reading level or one that may be the first in a series I think he will like, but is hesitant to start. I will also try to tie some of these to our science and history units.
- Spelling - we will continue with All About Spelling. We ended last year about halfway through level 3.
- Grammar - This year we are adding in some grammar, in two parts.
- Grammar Galaxy - I bought level 1. We will do about 3 lessons a week.
- Grammar mini units - I bought the book How to Be Good at English Language Arts. At the beginning of each week, he will read a couple of pages and then I will get books from the library to read throughout that week. We might do things like a part of speech or punctuation. This is intended to be light and fun. We have some of these types of books and he enjoys them (A Mink a Fink a Skating Rink, Greedy Apostrophe: A Cautionary Tale, and Crazy like a Fox)
- Reading Comprehension - We started Daily Reading Comprehension part way through last year and we will continue. Probably only a couple of pages a week.
- Poetry - at least once a week I'll have him read a little poetry. He LOVES Shel Silvertein and Brian Cleary books. I also got him a book of Poetry Comics, so it shouldn't be hard for him to do.
Logic
- Solo Logic Games - we have a bunch of these. I want to make an effort to have him play one at least once a week. (I'll eventually do a post on these)
- Logic Grids - he's currently on Mind Benders Level 2. He only does about one a week.
- Books - I got a few logic and critical thinking kids books (and will get some from the library). I'll try to throw one book in his book basket a week, although some he may need to read with me. We started out with Think Like a Detective, Maybe Yes, Maybe No, and There's a Dragon in my Garage
Science
- Units - We're going to do units based on the Next Generation Science Standards for science this year. We will do some labs, watch videos and read books based on the different concepts. Loosely, they are sound and light, biomimicry, how plant an animal offspring look like their parents, but not exactly, the sun, moon and stars, daylight and engineering. I'll try to post as we go, these are just a few of the books we will use.
History
- Units - I gave Archer a few choices as to what we could do for history this year. We ended up going the ancient history route, planning units on Archaeology, the Stone Age, Ancient Egypt, Ancient Rome, Ancient Greece, Ancient China and possibly the Aztecs, Incas and Myans. The plan is to watch videos, read books, find some activities and maybe even play some games related to each. I have booklists made already, but how long we focus on each and how deep we dive will depend on his interest level.
- I plan to give him How the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World Were Built at the beginning of the year, just to increase interest. Then I have several of the books from the See Inside Ancient Greece Series. We also plan to use a bunch of You Wouldn't Want to Be books.
Spanish
- We're going to try to add in Spanish this year. We have a few videos (Little Pim, Whistlefritz), flashcards and books in Spanish, and I got him a Spanish workbook. I'm not sure how fast we will work through it. It's one I'm going to play by ear a bit based on how interested he is.
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