Our first home-schooling day started on Monday 5th January 2009 at 9am. We had decided that each day before 'school' we would make it our daily task, to go for a brisk 15min. walk around the block, so in felt like in a way we were actually walking to school and when we arrived back at the house we would go straight to the 'classroom' to begin our school day, we did the same thing at the end of our school day, only in the opposite direction.
Blaine, my son, started our home-schooling journey with Year 4 British Curriculum, if he'd continued with 'formal schooling' he'd have started Grade4.
Aiden, my daughter, started our home-schooling journey with Foundation Phase British Curriculum, if she'd continued with 'formal schooling' she'd have started Grade 1 which is the first year of primary school in South Africa. However, in the UK you are expected to know how to read and write when starting your first year of Primary School and this is at the age of 5, so here in South Africa, we are 2 years behind as Aiden would only started learing to read/write in Grade 1 and a child only goes to Grade 1 the year you turn 7, so that is why I felt the need to keep her back a year and re-do Foundation Phase British Curriculum, so that we could begin reading and writing and not have any 'gaps' in her education.
We found we were racing through the daily schedules, apart from Aiden starting to read and write, everything else was familiar and simple enough, both Blaine and Aiden managed to tackle two days work in one day (3hrs).
In the first week, Aiden learnt the letter sounds for c, a, t, d, o, g, f, and x and was surprised at the amount of words she could make with just those 8 letters, and her handwriting was practised daily. There was been cooking lessons for Aiden - icing biscuits - which looked like so much fun that Blaine joined in too. The Science lessons was "Investigating Dissolving" and the Art Lesson was having fun with tissue paper, the Music Lesson was movement and songs.
Our first week over and we wish we'd started home-schooling years ago!!! So so much fun and love spending so much time with each other.
We found we were racing through the daily schedules, apart from Aiden starting to read and write, everything else was familiar and simple enough, both Blaine and Aiden managed to tackle two days work in one day (3hrs).
In the first week, Aiden learnt the letter sounds for c, a, t, d, o, g, f, and x and was surprised at the amount of words she could make with just those 8 letters, and her handwriting was practised daily. There was been cooking lessons for Aiden - icing biscuits - which looked like so much fun that Blaine joined in too. The Science lessons was "Investigating Dissolving" and the Art Lesson was having fun with tissue paper, the Music Lesson was movement and songs.
Our first week over and we wish we'd started home-schooling years ago!!! So so much fun and love spending so much time with each other.
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