Week 1 Planning

Week 1 begins tomorrow.  I'm going over the core curriculum lessons plans as I write.

Recitation this week will be ABC's, numbers 1-10, and I'm going to add knowing which letters are vowels. We will note the month/day of the week/day each morning and discuss the weather and anything we have planned for the day.

Lesson 1 Phonics is the letter Mm.  We will work with this letter all week.  We'll read "M is for Manatee" in our Nature Reader.  Each week includes a music selection and a painting selection.  I'll play the song while we're doing things during the week and I'll probably tape the painting up somewhere prominent and we'll return to it for a moment each day.  My notebook will probably have just a check mark each day for touching on the music/art at least 1 time.

I'll be skipping the read-aloud book this week and return to it later.  I've got books from the library that we can integrate in.  I also have a book called "Most Loved Monster" and all the monster names begin with the letter "M".  I will do the poem selection for the week.

For math, we'll just practice writing and spelling the number 1.

Finally for what the curriculum calls "copybook", we'll just work on his first and last name.  This is just to help improve fine motors / penmanship.  It can also help with memorization.  This is one place where the curriculum will quickly become too advanced for him I think.  He isn't ready for the amount of writing that kindergarten will require.

Crafts will include drawing ("Me" and/or "Mommy") and possibly a poster with "M" pictures glued to it (cuttings from a magazine?).