Taking a small summer break

This week Luk is attending a VBS from a friend's church, and I decided he is doing some intense Bible learning through that so we have left the afternoons open for just some fun time. I am vigorously planning this coming years schedule, and wondering if to plan the whole year or end it in January to see where Luk's level is, and then I would reformat if I needed to. Hmmm... decisions... we will see. Only I can see and know what Luk is capable of as I look at each subject and determine the time frame for each lessons. It is at moments like this that I have to make sure that seek the will of GOd for what I am to do with Luk's schooling. The beauty of planning ahead is that even if he runs slower than I thought than I would add days to the lesson at hand and if he goes fast well it's already planned. I'm a planner so the thoughts are leaning towards getting the year done and adjust as we go. Here is sample of what my calendar looks like.Explode the Code Book 1 (estimated time of three pages for one lesson 10-20 minutes):

Luk's School Year

August 2010

PHONICS

PHONICS: Explode the Code, BOB Books, and Phonics Game

Monday

Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday

Friday

1

2

PRETEST:

3

GAME:

4

LESSON 1:

5

6

LESSON 1:

7

Consonants

Flashcards: -at

pp.4-6

LIBRARY/STORYTIME

pp.7-9

pp. i-iii

Beginning Sounds Dominoes

Writing the words: sat, cat

Word Builders: -at

LESSON 1: pp. 1-3

rat, hat, mat

Extending Word Knowledge

Sight Words: on, the, is

Sight Words: on, the, is

Sight Words: on, the, is

8

9

LESSON 2:

10

GAME:

11

LESSON 2:

12

13

LESSON 2:

14

pp. 10-12

Rhying Word Dominoes

pp.13-15

LIBRARY/STORYTIME

pp.16-17

Last sounds of: can, fat,

Writing the words: bad,

Extending Word Knowledge

ham, bad, ran, mat, ram

pan, ran, mad, sad

Mad-angry, sad-upset, etc

Sight Words: has, in

Sight Words: has, in

Sight Words: has, in

15

16

LESSON 3:

17

GAME:

18

LESSON 3:

19

20

LESSON 3:

21

pp.18-20

Word Builders from Flash

pp.21-23

LIBRARY/STORYTIME

pp.24-25

Flashcards: -an, -am, -ad,

Writing the words: hat, nap

Extending Word Knowledge

Flashcards: -ap, -at, -ag

map, tag, gas

Challenge: Rhyming

Vocab: tag, sap, pal, cap

22

23

REVIEW:

24

25

REVIEW:

26

27

REVIEW:

28

Lessons 1 Words:

Lesson 2 Words:

LIBRARY/STORYTIME

Lesson 3 Words:

rat, fat, pat, bat, hat, mat,

had, ran, tan, bad, pan

bag, gas, ban, had, fad,

sat,

fan, can

map, jam

Make Oral sentences

Make Oral sentences

Make Oral Sentences

29

30

LESSON 4:

31

pp. 26-28

Word Builders with

it, sit, dim, hip, in, bin, pig

Magnets