If we break this down into areas it works quite well at the moment as dd needs basic skills that can be described quite clearly.
Reading: letters, sounds, words, lots of reading practise and listening to stories.
Maths: numbers, adding, dividing, subtracting in real life situations. Using manipulatives (cuisenaire rods, soon to be pattern blocks, hama beads).
Science: scientific method – experiments (make a guess, do the experiment, find out what happens). Also growing – plants, animals, ecology (the Blue Planet) and so on.
History: family trees, timelines, old photos, look at fashion.
Geography: map, flags, postcards and where they’ve come from. Where do our families come from? (Quite fortunate here, as we’ve got north and south between us).
Practical skills: gardening, cooking, sewing, french knitting.
Music: making instruments, singing, listening to music (world music?) of different types, playing percussion, recorder?
Physical education: dancing, swimming?, running about in the garden!
Socialisation: home ed group, woodcraft, dancing lessons. Meeting up with friends (and family) regularly.
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4 responses to “Curriculum discussion”
Sounds a good amount of stuff. Now you need to think if you *need* a curriculum to get all this stuff done. I do similar stuff myself and it always amazes me how simple most of it already is.
I do this from time to time and it IS really useful – i think i have blogged my list of “resources i want to use” and my occasional checks on what the NC is doing too. I suspect if you now matched everything in the house to what you have here, you’d discover you do actually “have” a curriculum! lol!
Did you mean to miss out art, or is it included in other bits?
Nope, I missed it out. Creative stuff ought to be in there, didn’t it?