by The Happy WAHM
It’s my third year as Teacher Mommy, so I’m starting to be more adventurous with our curriculum. We’ve been using AOP Lifepac in the past two years, but this year, to cut cost, we’re going to use more local books. We’ll stick to AOP Lifepac for Math and Science, however. These are two subjects that I would not mind spending on.
Science – Lifepac Level 4 – Alpha Omega Publications
Math – Lifepac Level 4 – Alpha Omega Publications
Language – Speak, Read and Write 3 – C & E Publishing
Reading – Charlotte’s Web – Total Language Plus
Bible – Following God 3 – ICI Ministries
Character – The Power for True Success – Institute in Basic Life Principles
Filipino – Sanghaya 3 – C & E Publishing
Social Studies – Makabayang Lahi – Ephesians Publishing (We are complying with DepEd’s directive that Social Studies be taught in Filipino.)
Music – Piano Lessons
Arts – Online materials, and Sing, Sketch, Stretch 3 from Abiva Publishing House.
Etiquette – Family Book of Manners – CLC
Since we have two months of waiting for the Lifepac sets to arrive, I’ll be using Math for Lifelong Learning 4 and Real Life Science 4 from Abiva Publishing House for our Math and Science activities.
Also, for Social Studies, we’ll be supplementing our lessons with the Mystery of History Volume I from Bright Ideas Press.
by The Happy WAHM
We used to do our activities on the dining table. And then I read somewhere that the kids also need to have a space that will remind them of school. So I had a desk made for them. One that would fit in that very small space in the living room of our very small house. We actually had to give up our sofa to make room for our school.
All their books are easily accessible. We actually started building up our library before I even gave birth to our first child. We invested on Time Life book sets back when I was still pregnant with Xia. My husband and I are voracious readers, so there has been an unspoken desire that we would encourage our children to love books, too. We just made sure that we have enough to get them started. My long standing joke has been, and I guess it’s really true, that if robbers would come to our house, the only things of value that they would get would be our books.
by The Happy WAHM
Today, we officially started Bea’s homeschool year for 3rd Grade. Based on what I’ve experienced in the past two years of homeschooling, preparing the portfolio can be really costly, particularly in producing the pictures that will support their output. So for this year, to cut on cost on ink and paper, I decided on creating a blog site for our homeschool that will chronicle our daily activities. It will not only save us money, I’ll also be helping on saving Mother Earth. As I write this post, sitting beside me are four reams of bond paper (more or less) used from our last year’s activities.
I have thought of putting our homeschool blog in either of my existing sites by simply creating a page and mapping it as a subdomain, or create a blog on a free account with either Blogger, WordPress or Weebly.
I finally decided on creating a separate site altogether where I can be spontaneous as a mompreneur. And so here I am, writing this first post, immediately after posting my About page.
On our first day, we did three subjects:
Bible – Textbook is Following God
We opened with a song: Jesus Loves Me
Memory verse is Psalm 119:105
We discussed why God is being likened to a treasure map. Then identified traits that will lead us to heaven.
Forgot to have the National Anthem. We should have that. So this is an action point for me.
Filipino – Textbook is Sanghaya
Pagbati, Pagpapakilala at Pagtanggap ng Panauhin
Bea read a story aloud. Then made up dialogues of introduction from different scenarios.
Special attention was given to the use of PO and OPO.
Civics – Textbook is Makabayang Lahi. To be supported with The Mystery of History (I’d like Bea and Jude to travel through this together.)
We explored the Philippines using a map. Identified the regions. Listened to the music, Bayan Ko.
Afternoon activity was a badminton game.
Her Math and Science books have been ordered, but it may take two more months before we get them. While waiting for the books, I’ll be on the lookout for 3rd Grade activities online.
This is going to be a challenging year for me as Teacher Mommy, coz now I have a freshman in a traditional high school, and the two young ones (Jude will begin as a 1st Grader in December, or earlier) will be homeschooled. More challenging than the past years, because then, our schedules were synchronized. This year, I will always have to take into consideration Xia’s schedule, too.
Keeping my faith!
