BrandonMommy Posted April 1, 2013 Share Posted April 1, 2013 How many and which threads did you cover in your kindergarten year? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jar7709 Posted April 1, 2013 Share Posted April 1, 2013 Since the threads are meant to be interwoven, imo, if you just want to do the first few lessons from each of the threads for a K year that would be fine. That's what we did/are doing. Taking a few years to go through the whole thing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
junepep Posted April 1, 2013 Share Posted April 1, 2013 We did: A/B1- Organizing things into categories; A2 - Solids, Liquids and Gases; A3 – Air is a substance; D1 – Gravity I: Gravity, Horizontal and Vertical (concurrent w/ A3); B2 – Distinguishing Living, Natural Non-living, and Human Made things; C1 – concepts of energy I: Making things go; C3 Concepts of Energy Kinetic and Potential; B3 Distinguishing between Plants and Animals (concurrent w/ C3); D2 – Day and Night and the Earth’s Rotation (concurrent w/ D3); D3 – Read and Draw Maps (w/ D2); D3A – North, East, South, West; B4 Life Cycles; B4A – Identification of Living Things (concurrent w/ B4, B4B, & D4); D4 Landforms and Major Biomes of Earth (w/B4A); B4B – What is a Species (w/ B4&B4A) I'd send you to my blog for how we implemented it, but I never put all of the units up. I keep meaning to update it ... but I should really just take it off of my signature since I never find the time :( Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arboreal TJ Posted April 1, 2013 Share Posted April 1, 2013 We are starting over again for 1st grade, I suspect we'll blaze through what we already covered. We put it on the back burner to focus on the 3Rs and so I can make it easier to implement. I'm going through the book now, using AAR as my model, making BFSU open and go. I'm lightly scripting the lessons and adding in a review card component. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BrandonMommy Posted April 1, 2013 Author Share Posted April 1, 2013 junepep, how often did you do lessons? Aroboreal, that sounds great! I'm trying to start planning now to make it more open and go as well . . . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
junepep Posted April 1, 2013 Share Posted April 1, 2013 We tended to do 10-30 minute lessons & experiments about 3-4 times a week for about 3 weeks per topic (although not at the moment since we take the whole spring off of work to do vegetable gardening ;)), but I count reading books about the subject and watching vido clips (from bill nye, 3-2-1 contact & other children's science programming, etc) in that time. For each unit we usually did a brief review at the beginning of each week about things that we'd done during other weeks (often going back to the very beginning because my eldest does best with spiral curricula). It was just a little reminder to keep things fresh in our heads. I have to admit, most of my friends just breeze through the book, and I can see the appeal, but I really liked having the 3 (sometimes 4) weeks per topic. It meant that if I didn't get my act together right away I still had some more time to think up fun experiments or to borrow new books from the library (since I never remember to pre-order them). Also, sometimes the girls grasped the concept really quickly and we just worked on diving deeper and deeper ... and then there were weeks when it seemed like they (or I) couldn't even remember the vocab words :D so it was nice to know that we had tons and tons of time to do science and if it didn't work today, or even yesterday, then it would surely be fine tomorrow. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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