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Saturday, August 4, 2012

Moving Beyond the Page - Getting Started

I just started to review the first lessons of this curriculum, designed for homeschooled gifted kids.  The first Unit is Communities Around the World.

So far, I see we need the following resources (among a huge list of other things I already have):
  • Spelling/Vocab Journals for each of the boys
  • A Globe
  • Poster Boards
  • Books on Holidays and other Countries, specifically Canada, China and Mexico
The lesson surrounds three books sent with the curriculum:  Hungry Planet, If you Give a Pig a Pancake and The Little House.

Vocabulary Words include:
Rural
Urban
goods
service
need
want
money
research
natural resource
human resource
history
vote
consequence
law
rule
authority

Wow, okay, those are GOOD.  I'm on board.

ACTIVITY 1
The first lesson is to ask the children what a community is and to describe theirs.  Places in the Community and has a worksheet where they label a building and then write a sentence. I will need to copy these worksheets.

ACTIVITY 2
The next is to Read aloud, a story in the workbook "The City Mouse and the Country Mouse"  I will also have T read it aloud, discuss the story with questions from parent guide

ACTIVITY 3
Fold a piece of paper in half vertically and label columns Rural and Urban and ask kids to list advantages of living in Country or City. Using worksheet from activity book, have them write three sentences about the place they would rather live.  Cover Nouns and verbs in sentences, having them circle the noun and underline the related verb.

ACTIVITY 4
Discuss Maps and review worksheet from book that has a map of the community, reading and locating labels on he map.  Review map key, show them scale. Use a ruler to measure distances.

That concludes DAY 1.  I'm looking forward to getting started.  Now if only I had a high speed copier instead of my little photosmart :-)