This year is going to be so much fun! I hope :) I am planning for all of my children to become a little more independant in their studies, according to their abilities. Really, I am hoping that they will come up with some iniative of their own. My 3rd grader is pretty strong in the area of math and is a good reader (not to be confused with those who actually enjoy the reading part, but he is a strong reader). Narration needs more practice as well has handwriting and spelling. I have mixed and matched some things to come up with this plan for him:
Math: Abeka workbook only (no need for tests with all that review, in my opinion)
Christian Liberty Reader: History Stories for Children for practice in narration
A Reason for Handwriting-a very simple way to teach cursive
Language: Abeka Workbook only
Spelling: hybrid b/t Spellingcity.com and Spelling Power (more on this method later)
History: Group studies: Guest Hollow (see review here)
Science: This kid looooves the outdoors, but he will have to do a smidge of 'work' in this area, usually with a unit study with his siblings and some experiments from various resources
Art: How to Teach Art to Children (group setting as well)
Music: Keyboard continuing slowly in this
P.E. Flag Football in the fall, we'll see what else might come along when the time comes
I am interested in what other 3rd grade boys do...please share.
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I enjoyed reading this!
ReplyDeleteIt looks like you and I have similar styles...
For my 3rd grade son, we are doing the following:
A.C.E. program for Social Studies & Science
Italic handwriting:
http://www.grovepublishing.com/handwriting/italic-handwriting.htm & http://www.currclick.com/advanced_search_result.php?keywords=Italic+Handwriting&x=0&y=0&quicksearch=1&search_filter=&filters=&search_free=&search_in_description=1&search_in_author=1&search_in_artist=1
Christian Liberty Reader: History Stories for Children
He will continue w/weekly Art Lessons in Strasburg.
Continue to work in his Nature Journal.
An abundance of reading lots of of living (CM friendly) books w/mommy (not an independent reader yet, and I do not push phonics).
Spelling program is through school zone (I think that's the name of it) - a software program w/picked up at the Apple Store last year.
Lots of lapbooking, notebooking, & unit studies.
Still not sure what we're doing for Math... but think it will either be via A.C.E. or Singapore.
Phew, I'm tired already just writing it all out, lol! :)