Getting Started with Homeschooling
Practical Considerations for Parents of School-Aged Children
© Beverley Paine
Index
Homeschool
Australia
Some Examples Of Recording And Evaluation
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| Summary Of Activities | Week Ending: |
| Daily free play activities - not initiated by adults | |
| Activity | Comments |
| Art | Pebble painting; sketching (outside); drawing on blackboard |
| Craft | Slyvannian family furniture; sewing doll's clothes; woodwork |
| Role-playing games | Lego; houses/families; outside adventure game |
| Construction | Matchbox cars using MAB wooden blocks; Lego; woodwork |
| Physical/Outdoor/Sport | Play fighting; rope swing and bridge; cricket; bicycles; walk |
| Board Games | Mastermind; Pass the Pigs; Solar Quest; Paper Chase; Card games |
| Puzzles | 3 dimensional trick puzzle; Animalia jigsaw 750 pieces |
| Music/Singing | Listening to tapes; made own radio program on tape |
| Cooking | Made biscuits |
| Sand Play | Sand sculptures at beach, using seaweed and shells |
| Water | Swimming, body boards |
| Toys | Sylvannian families; Lego; Matchbox cars; polyhedrons |
| Socializing | Visit from Tristan and Roseanna; Excursion to Museum with HBL families; sleepover at Tristans; Jones over for dinner. |
| Child-initiated activities based on continuing interests |
| Pets : April's guinea pigs had more babies. Robin and Thomas are building a cage so Thomas can keep some. Cages were cleaned out. Trying to work out how to breed long hair rosette pigs. April rang around pet shops to see if they wanted any. Sylvannian Family Game: -construction of following continuing - houses, furniture, clothes, cars, etc, including going out and buying some more critters. Learning to Drive!: Roger &April are practicing on flat clear ground. Both can start car,25kph in 2nd gear, including stopping vehicle. |
| Structured adult-initiated activities |
| Maths | Shopping; Bank accounts; Pocket money; Budgeting; April ch.8; Roger ch4, practice in large sums, comp maths; Thom calculator & computer |
| Language | Silent reading; shared reading “Never Ending Story”,”Breakthroughs in Science”; Thom. matching words to objects, making books, scribing; Roger spelling check; Journals and project writing |
| Health & Personal Development | Went to talk on “Brain Gym” tried some exercises; Thomas “I can” book; 4km bushwalk; swimming pool; Roger attention to diet (allergies) |
| Science & Technology | TV - Quantum, Beyond 2000, nature programs; experiment with displacement, volume, capacity; elasticity experiment with various solids |
| Social Studies | Discussion on history of local area, look at historical buildings; consumer affairs discussion sparked by “the Investigators” |
| Art & Craft | Art in architecture - symmetry, proportion, shape, perspective |
| Indonesian | April - Open Access lessons and homework; singing, listening to tapes |
| Other | April - guitar; Rog. - keyboard; Library - Thom use comp. to find books |
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Excerpt from Getting Started with Homeschooling, Practical Considerations
© Beverley Paine, 1997
