This past year went very smoothly! We did continue Math Monday, Word Wednesday and Freestyle Friday. We also continued our PE class and co-op. Our co-op also included a lot of great field trips! We added a few new activities... I kept another homeschool child one day a week, those days involved volunteering, lego class, library visit and chess lessons. We also started attending a homeschool Tae Kwon Do class, and we visited a nature class a few times.
Math Monday included the following activities: equations, math stories, books, money, time, cooking, calendar, counting (by 2, 5, 10), and we found a computer programming tutorial that he really enjoyed.
Word Wednesday included the following: handwriting, grammar, comprehension, typing, sight words, spanish, reading aloud, story page, research page.
I know it may sound like a lot, but my goal was mostly to either introduce or improve on these areas, not master them. I think kids are like sponges, and they enjoy and benefit from being exposed to a variety of topics and approaches for learning. Our lessons include a variety of approaches using hands-on, worksheets, games and more. I also like to provide them with plenty of unstructured time where they can explore, invent and be active and creative! I don't necessarily want to teach my kids everything they need to know, but I want to encourage them to enjoy learning and understand how to find the answers to their curiousities!
Here are some links I used frequently this past year:
http://www.handwritingworksheets.com/
http://www.education.com/worksheets/
For the coming year I have some new ideas to add a music class and nature class, continue our co-op, PE, Tae Kwon Do, chess and legos. Our routine will be changing some, so I think instead of having dedicated days for different lessons, we will have a single day dedicated to home learning, still focusing on math and language. The other days of the week will involve outside activities and classes, and Fridays I try to always keep free.
My older son had his first academic evaluation this past spring, so we will incorporate that feedback in our new lessons. We do lots of reading and hands on activities for learning. For my younger son I will continue to work on recognition of numbers, letters, colors and shapes.
I will post more specific lesson outlines once I set them up for the coming year.
Also, my son played his first season of baseball this past spring, which was our very first evening activity!