Our homeschool curriculum – The Fitnessista

We share more about P’s homeschool curriculum and how we structure our days. Read this post for more information on why I decided to homeschool.

Hello friends! how are you? I hope you have a great morning. I have some homeschool fun today, some client calls, and I’m going to do an afternoon hike. What are you doing?

In today’s post, I wanted to chat more about how we structure our days now, now that we’re homeschooling, we’re in its third week of homeschooling. It is worth mentioning here that every day is different and these are just boxes to check every day. The beauty of homeschooling is that it is flexible. It takes much less time than traditional schools, and you can pause, change, or move things and get free to move depending on what’s going on.

It is also worth mentioning that I am not an expert and have minimal experience in this field. I’m newbie news and take this seriously as we go. I am so grateful, so I have homeschool experts and friends who provided help and advice. Take all the tips I can get!

I’m very grateful too Brittany in a healthy life When I sent her a very long voice message, who jumped in, called with me, spoke from the shelf, and helped me find a game plan. Check out her blog for homeschooling information, recipes, travel and lifestyle. She is amazing.

I’m still thinking about this, but I wanted to share this post for a friend considering homeschooling, but I’m very intimidated just like me. I thought I had to become a *teacher* to be good at this. You don’t need to have an educational background. You need to find the right curriculum fit (and you know you can change it anytime), have a little patience and flexibility, and continue to show love and perseverance for your child. <3

Our homeschool curriculum and how we build our days

In most cases, what happens on this day:

We wake up and take liv to school. We go home and P has breakfast. I give her a little cold time so that she can build toys, puzzles, things (here, I’ll catch up with some emails or put out the fire of work).

Almost all of the curriculum we use is plug and play. That is, you open a book, read the lesson, answer questions, and move on. (Almost everything below was recommended by Brittany)

Mathematics – 20-30 minutes

We use Nicole the Mass Lady and Saxon Mathematics. We used to use Saxon math at girls’ schools (they switched to focus and math), and I wanted to go back to Saxon. Nicole The Math Lady teaches each lesson (I love Corny Brain Break’s approximately 10 minute video, P) before completing practice questions and 1-2 worksheets. Enter your child’s answers on the computer and track your grades. Each lesson takes approximately two days to complete.

Grammar-20-30 minutes

For grammar, we use it Masterbook, a faith-based curriculum. Includes practical applications with photography research, memory, punctuation, spelling, vocabulary, observation, poetry, poetry sal, letters and creative writing. We’re just starting out, but it feels like she’s already learning a lot from this textbook. She studied cursive this year, so she is working on answering questions in cursive.

Write – 20-30 minutes

We do it for writing f stories, myths, fairy tales Writing lessons from IEW. It focuses on structure and style methods. Currently she is working on reading Fables, creating a key overview and narration (you can use her notes to tell stories).

Reading – 20 minutes

I want her to read and enjoy for now, so we’re reading something It’s very easy and fun. The book holds the test of time and she loves it. We often crack at one point while reading about Fudge and his attitude.

Science + Social Studies / Geography – Approximately twice a week

I’m still trying to figure out this plan, but I’m not too worried as it’s near summer. For now, she is working on memories of the state, capital, and can find them on the map.

For science, we do one project each week. During the first week, we dissected owl pellets and talked about what we found that matched the bones on the bone sorting chart. In the second week, she built drops of eggs that could fall from the balcony into the garden, keeping them intact. We talked about speed, gravity, momentum, action and reaction. This week she’s working on it Roller Coaster Construction.

Since you’re just planning to homeschool through 5th grade, you can contact Liv’s school to see your expectations for the fifth grade rise for science and social studies/geography and make sure you’ll cover the base.

noon:

We take Maisey for a walk, have lunch together, catch up with some chores and find plans for the afternoon.

afternoon:

When we made this decision, I told P that I loved wandering around with her but couldn’t be her cruise director all day. I’ll do whatever I need to work on for a few hours, including the afternoon before picking up a LIV, coaching calls, content creation, editing, podcast interviews, and more. I’ve also shifted my work schedule so I work more on weekends and when pilots are at home from training on the airline. (We started all of this when he left, so I’ve been thinking about all of this on my solo parenting and all of this along the way.) Saturday is now most of the work on Sundays, and most of the Sundays. In addition to P’s basketball games, I write, work/edit/edit all day until dinner.

In the afternoon, she works on toys and doing things she has fun (music, crocheting, filming hoops, etc.). If you get caught up in work, take them to an indoor play area, do errands and give them time on the screen. She usually doesn’t get screen time in the evening as she plays basketball at night and we chase into Liv and dance classes.

Every day I shuffle. I either make an appointment in the morning or teach a class for barre so I take a picture of the school in the afternoon. We are also exploring some of the activities at Tucson Homeschool. There are so many great things here: parkour, gymnastics, art, cooperatives, horse lessons, music – I’m excited to check them out!

That’s how it is now! I’m sure it will change over time, and my plan is for her to keep up with mathematics (she is currently finishing her third grade book, and I want to win a fourth grade.

At homeschool, you can see where your children are. If they are progressing quickly with subjects, you can advance with them or take more time to a particular subject if they need it.

Thank you very much if you have fun science projects or ideas for social studies or geography resources! Also, if you have any questions that I can answer in future posts, please use LMK!

xoxo

Gina