C’s officially starting 4th grade! Well, as official as we get. He’s finished his 3rd grade grammar and that was his lingering non-4th grade level work.
I decided instead of saving the “bonus” lessons for the end of the book like we did this time we’ll intersperse them with the rest of the book. Their lesson schedule has 3 lessons per week for 36 weeks (a standard school year) but since we go year round I’m changing the format to do grammar lessons 2x a week.
Will we actually follow this? Unlikely, but it lets me see where to add in the bonus lessons and if we take off a week here or there I like having a reference point to go back to and pick up again. Plus since we’re starting next week, even with several weeks off over the course of the year we should be able to finish up this grammar book by Sep. 2011 and C can start 5th grade then. (Note to self, find grammar/writing program for 5th grade!)
1. 1, 2
2. 3, 4
3. 5, 6
4. 7, 8
5. 9, 10
6. 11, 12
7. DS 1, 2
8. 13, 14
9. 15, 16
10. 17, 18
11. 19, 20
12. 21, 22
13. 23, 24
14. 25, 26
15. 27, 28
16. 29, 30
17. WL 1, WL 2
18. WL 3, 31
19. 32, 33
20. 34, 35
21. 36, 37
22. 38, 39
23. 40, 41
24. 42, 43
25. 44, 45
26. 46, 47
27. 48, 49
28. 50, 51
29. 52, 53
30. 54, 55
31. DS 3, DS 4
32. 56, 57
33. 58, 59
34. DS 5, 60
35. 61, 62
36. 63, 64
37. 65, 66
38. 67, 68
39. 69, 70
40. 71, WL 4
41. WL 5, WL 6
42. 72, 73
43. 74, 75
44. 76, 77
48. 78, Contractions
49. 79, 80, 81 (Reviews)
50. WL 7, WL 8
51. WL 9, WL 10
52. 82, 83, 84, 85 (Reviews)
Note: we just started our first lesson and it was very much a review of concept he’s learned in the prior 3 years. The entire book appears to be a repeat of prior concepts in more depth, which is great! Things he still needs help with are reiterated and those things he’s already mastered we can just move quickly through. This does involve more writing & dictation, both areas we need to focus on since he’s developed the fine motor skills for lengthier writing assignments. Before now we’ve let him narrate instead of writing everything but he’s 8 and I think he’s ready for some more practice in that area. We still keep it brief because before 10 years of age I question how much they have the fine motor skills/patience to do lengthy compositions but we’re working that direction. (And that will depend on each child and how much I see them struggle or get worn out by the handwriting.)