Ambitious

Whew. I finally got a draft of the first week's K and 5 schedules, based on the Oak Meadow curricula, written up for the kids. I am going to have to keep reminding myself to relax, breathe deep, and just see how it goes. I wonder if I shouldn't change it from a schedule to more of a checklist, moving on to the next area when we've finished the first? Maybe ease into it more? As I said, I'm just going to relax and see how it goes. It does look fun. And I'm sure we'll be spending more time outside and doing fun things like making letters out of bread :)

Well, this is what we're looking at for week 1 (which will probably be the first week of September). I want to have 2 or 3 weeks planned ahead of time. It's important, especially since I figured out today that the first reader was missing from my fifth grade set, and I had to order it. These things are bound to happen. As you can see, there is a blank or two to be filled in, as well.

Kindergarten Week 1:

Subject	Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday	Notes
Circle Time	Opening verse Songs/fingerplays	Field trip day	Opening verse Songs/fingerplays	Opening verse Songs/fingerplays	Opening verse Songs/fingerplays	Start seasonal table
Morning Main Lesson (LA/SS/Math)	Review story/draw A Do A tongue twister		Do A tongue twister Go outside and gather sticks to tie in bundles and make As	Do A tongue twister Find tree branch As and tie a string to make As.	Do A tongue twister Walk and run the letter A Look for other As.	Creative play stations
Afternoon Hour (Arts, Crafts, Science, Music, and Health)	Recall summer/draw a picture of summer Press flowers to recall summer		Make bread snakes	Music/Movement: Head, Shoulders, Knees, and Toes and another song or finger play.	Health: Parts of the body.
Bedtime Story	“The Tale of Peter Rabbit” by Beatrix Potter

Notes

Supplies: crayons, flowers, recipe ingredients, Wee Sing CD, start gathering fall items for seasonal table.

Grade 5 Week 1:

Subject	Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday	Notes
History/English	Vocabulary/grammar review Read Lesson 1 ("Explorers")	Field trip day	Intro to writing assignment/research	1. Plant shadow stick/measure 2. Observe North Star and night sky and note impressions	Spelling
Science	Read Science Lesson 1 (“Scientific Inquiry”)		Bird observation/ hypotheses/design experiment		1. Conduct bird experiment 2. Night sky poem/picture
Math				Lesson 1 to Skill A ("Common Denominators")	Remainder of Lesson 1 ("Lowest Common Denominators"
Computer Science			Scratch
Cooking					Pick a recipe or do bread with girls
Independent Work/Reading/ Writing/ Projects	Collect bird pictures and arrange by beak type	Read CC	Writing assignment

Notes

CC: Where Do You Think You’re Going, Christopher Columbus? by Jean Fritz

Supplies: Bird pictures, encyclopedia, globe, stick, measuring tape, colored pencils and/or watercolors, recipe ingredients

I'm also stopping to tell myself right now to not be upset if the kids don't appreciate the work I put into this. They have a different perspective about this. I put this together for me, anyway, the schedule, that is. I don't want to be grasping or grossly unprepared when it's time to start. I am also open to spending more time on some topics and less on others, depending on the kids' interest. I'm already worried that DS will be bored with the math, even though we're using Oak Meadow Math 7 (7th grade). We may have to skip ahead to the more complicated stuff, depending on how he does.

I am also willing to take the very un-Waldorfish approach (from the little I know of Waldorf, anyhow) of using an Internet encyclopedia and letting DS do some of his writing on the computer if he wishes. We'll take things one step at a time.