The First (Real) Week's Assignments

I thought I would give a copy of this week's assignment schedule. We did some work last week already. Intro reading in several books, initial easy assignments in a few, etc. That was an 'intro' week... this is the real thing. :-)

It's important to know this doesn't represent our whole curriculum. There are things we are doing later in the semester or next semester, and there are things I don't have the curriculum for yet (particularly english, but also a variety of other add-in workbooks to various topics). Plus most the audio, video, field trip, experiential stuff is one-off things, so they just appear in a given week and aren't constant so aren't seen here.

Some special notes:

For arts: We're starting simple on this with 'fun kid stuff' because she does 3D graphic design (!) and I feel like she missed a chunk of childhood, somewhere between nearly stick-men with severely oversized heads, and half-naked faeries graphically modified in World-of-Warcraft style...! I'll get to other things later in the year.

For music: She wants violin but I can't afford it right now, so we're doing voice and recorder now and hopefully drums eventually, and then hopefully for next semester I can work out violin lessons and rental.

For foreign: Still looking for a decent book on greek/latin roots of english. She insists on learning Japanese (been a japanophile since she was 5) and her sensei speaks it, so... we got her stuff for Japanese. Which means I need to learn it too or how can I help her and talk to her? Aurgh! She couldn't have wanted something EASY like spanish, right??

For home-ec: Waiting on a paycheck so I can buy some stuff to start her with in a variety of forms of cooking. We have sewing stuff already.

For study skills: She has a heavy load in that until end of the semester and then she is done and IMO doesn't need to do much of that again till much older. We're getting it out of the way up front.

This week school starts, officially at 8/11/08 Monday. Ry has this week to get all the following done, at her own schedule:

Week of 8/11 - 8/15/08

Curriculum Materials for this week:

MATH:
Word Problems Homework Booklet Grade 7-8
Singapore New Elementary Mathematics (text exercises)
Mathematics, A Step-By-Step Approach Grade 8 (workbook)
The 100+ Series Mixed Skills in Math, Grades 7-8 (workbook)

SOCIAL STUDIES:
A History of US: The First Americans

SCIENCE:
Spectrum Science, Grade 7

ENGLISH:
Unjournaling: Daily Writing Exercises

HEALTH:
Weekly Karate and practice
Pilates DVDs
Documentary collection

FOREIGN:
Japanese for Dummies (book+CD)
Japanese (Tell Me More software)
Japanese (Rosetta Stone software)

STUDY SKILLS:
Learning to Use the Library (DDS)
Write Now: Print/Cursive Italic Penmanship
Proofreading & Editing, Grade 7

HOME EC:
Sew Fast Sew Easy
Hair: A Book of Braiding

ARTS:
Kid's Book of Creative Lettering
123's of Creative Doodling
Doodling for Papercrafters

MUSIC:
Voice Lessons on CD
Recorder and Intro Book
Classical Recorder Music CD


Assignments for this week:

MATH:
NEM: Chapters 1&2 to be fully done by 9/5
Word Probs: p.5-8, 2 problems per page
StepByStep: p.6-10, 2 problems per page
Mixed Skills: p.6,11,20, 1 problem per section (3 sections per page)

SOCIAL STUDIES:
TFA: Read p.1-51

SCIENCE:
Spectrum: #1.1 - 1.2

ENGLISH:
Unjournaling: 1 exercise from #11-20

HEALTH:
Gojo Ryu Karate (Tuesday nights)
Black Tar Heroin: HBO Documentary

FOREIGN:
Install JfD CD software
Install TMM CD software
Install RS software

STUDY SKILLS:
WriteNow: 2cc ea p.14-19
Proofing: p.5-6
Library: p.2 + Case Study

HOME EC:
Hair: basic braid & french twist
Sew: Read&Measure p.6-10
Kitchen: Using bar blender & magic-bullet
Kitchen leftover from last week: SliceDiceShredZestPeel
Cooking: probably not this week, waiting on $, makeup next week

ARTS:
Lettering: p.6 tricks, style, embellish
Doodling: p.7-8
Papercrafters: p.11,19,25

MUSIC:
Voice: practice with CD
Recorder: #s 1-4
Audio: Classical Recorder


That's it for this week. The NEM math is actually a lot of work, so I assigned 2 chapters in 5 weeks as doing that consistently would get us to the end of it by the end of the school year. It is fairly complex and has a ton of work in the textbook, then in a homework-like book. History she has to read 50-80 pages a week to get through that series this year. (Fortunately she reads rapidly!) And some of the 'little stuff' like study skills and art actually take significant time to just "do". So she has a good week of work there.

When we get the other science book, the geography book, and the English curriculum in, there will be a little more.

PJ